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Super City: The Secret Origin of Comic Books

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date December 28, 2022
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PODCAST A history of the comic book industry in New York City, how the energy and diversity of the city influenced the burgeoning medium in the 1930s and 40s and how New York’s history reflects out from the origins of its most popular characters. In the 1890s a newspaper rivalry between William Randolph Hearst and… Read More

Tags Central Park, comic books, Foley Square, Joseph Pulitzer, Little Italy, Newspaper Row, newspapers, Park Row, publishing, William Randolph Hearst, WNYC

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African Burial Ground: History from underneath the city, and the secret tale of New Yorkers once forgotten

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date November 5, 2010
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A small cemetery for African slaves and free black New Yorkers developed along the southern edge of Collect Pond. But when that filthy body of water was drained and filled, the burial ground disappeared underground with it. (Image courtesy Preserve America) PODCAST During the construction of a downtown federal administration building, an extraordinary find was… Read More

Tags African Burial Ground, archaelogy, Foley Square, Podcasts, slavery