Tag: clothing

History in the Making 4/25: In Memory of a Horrible Fire

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date April 25, 2014
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Above: A dramatic depiction of a fire which took place 160 years ago today. W. T. Jennings was a fine gentleman’s clothing store located at 231 Broadway, on the site of today’s Woolworth Building. A tremendous fire took the building on the evening of April 25, 1854, causing thousands of dollars in damage and destroying the… Read More

Tags clothing, fires, Jane Jacobs, New York Fire Department, Robert Moses, Woolworth Building

Know Your Mayors

George Opdyke: The mayor during the Civil War Draft Riots and his unsavory connection to New York’s fashion industry

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date August 16, 2013
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KNOW YOUR MAYORS A modest little series about some of the greatest, notorious, most important, even most useless, mayors of New York City. Other entrants in the Bowery Boys mayoral survey can be found here.Mayor George OpdykeIn office: 1862-1863 The wealthy merchant and politician George Opdyke died on June 12, 1880, attended to by his family from… Read More

Tags Civil War, clothing, draft riots, fashion, Know Your Mayors, slavery

Christmas

Christmas in the afternoon: A tour around Greeley Square

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date December 21, 2011
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I’m not 100% sure on the date of this photo, but I’ll place it in the late 1940s, as Life photographer Nina Leen did a great many photoshoots for the magazine in this period. The statue of Horace Greeley sits astride the big Christmas tree as perfect afternoon light casts shadows upon the corner of 33rd and… Read More

Tags clothing, department stores, Greeley Square, Herald Square, Macy's, Saks Fifth Avenue