New York City is known for Wall Street, crowded streets, and famous landmarks. Beyond that familiar image, its history includes buried ships beneath Manhattan, abandoned transit platforms, escaped zoo ...

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Black history is New York City history. Everywhere you look, you see how African Americans helped shape and mold the city. Before the Upper West Side was home to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New York is one of the most significant historical cities in the U.S. However, there's a lot of unsettling and disturbing history ...

Today, December 13, marks an important, yet sobering, moment in New York history: it’s the day the New York City Council passed a law to create the city’s first slave market. By the time the Council ...

An exhibit at the New York Historical sheds light on an organization that began by serving sailors, women and factory workers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Melissa is a writer based in Brooklyn. Popular understanding of New York history is about to get even more robust, with three new ...

New York is one of the most significant historical cities in the U.S. However, there's a lot of unsettling and disturbing history that stands in the state — history that many people are unaware of.