How Has New York Remade Itself Since the Pandemic Arrived?
New York City was on the front lines of the Covid-19 crisis. It has largely recovered, but has transformed into a place of ...
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Library program will explore the centuries-long connections between Ireland and Cuba
Riverhead resident John McAuliff will tell the story of the “special bond” between Ireland and Cuba Sunday afternoon during a ...
The Artifacts of New York’s Pandemic Era
The vintage aura of Sevilla Restaurant — the servers in bow ties, the leather booths, the glow of lanterns — reflects a ...
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Millions in New York struggle to afford food, housing
New York is one of the wealthiest cities in the world with more than 349,000 millionaires in its ranks. But it is also home ...
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How 19th-Century Guidebooks Shaped the Way Visitors Saw New York
"Wish You Were Here" at the Grolier Club explores two centuries of NYC tourism using guidebooks, postcards, and other ...
Queer theatre in the 19th century was a place of codes, cross-dressing and blackmail
The theatre offered queer Victorian men a space to express their identities, at a time when homosexuality was criminalised.
Trump’s Flawed Claim that Tariffs Made the U.S. Its ‘Richest’
In arguing for more tariffs on goods imported to the United States, President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the U.S. was its “richest” or “wealthiest” during the late 1800s and early 1900s ...
From TB to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension, but it’s the foundation of public health
Without public health surveillance, officials trying to tackle outbreaks, identify threats and evaluate treatments are working ‘in the darkness of ignorance.’ ...
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What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly
The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champ who lost Cold War’s ‘Match of the Century,’ dies at 88
Boris Spassky, former world chess champion, died in Moscow at 88. He was best known for his 1972 "Match of the Century" loss to Bobby Fischer. The International Chess Federation called Spassky ...
When happy hour in America meant a cheap beer … and free caviar?
In the 19th century, this lost American boomtown shipped 15 train cars of sturgeon roe daily. Here's the surprising story of ...
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Disastrous Atlantic current shutdown is unlikely this century, new study says
looks unlikely this century, a new study concludes. It’s the scenario behind the 2004 fictionalized disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow, which portrays a world where climate change sparks ...