If any of you have room in your apartments for the legendary Astroland rocket, please let them know. [Kinetic Carnival]
Hotrodding down Bedford Avenue in the 1930s [Gowanus Lounge]
An archaeological dig in Riverside Park reveals information about the great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton [New York Times]
Did they really destroy Bob Dylan’s Chelsea Hotel room to “shore up an unstable wall”? [Hotel Chelsea Blog]
Want to see a subway ride from 1905? It’s kind of like a subway ride from today, but stay until the 5:10 minute mark [Second Avenue Sagas]
Louis DeSalvio — one of the players in the death of Robert Moses‘s stillborn Lower Manhattan Expressway [Knickerbocker Village]