Anonymous, New York: Ursula Parrott
My husband left me four years ago. Why–I don’t precisely understand, and never did. Nor, I suspect, does he. Now, in these waning days of 1929 when the world may […]
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Hellward, New York? The Shimmy Dance and Other Indecencies
Dance, Daughters, Dance! 1928 By the time a young actress danced in front of a three-way mirror and on table tops, shaking her body as her bobbed hair bobbed and […]
Selling (Off) New York
Cardboard Cut-Outs?: The cast of Million Dollar Listing, New York “I think the doorman is just as important as the guy who owns the building,” real estate broker Luis D. […]
"Calling" in New York: A New Year’s Day Tradition
Mrs. Pegu, and drawing-room, are all laid out in state to receive New Year’s calls. Thirty-two young gentlemen make a brief appearance at the door, and recite the following shibboleth: […]
Color of Postwar New York
Walking, 1956, Saul Leiter, Howard Greenberg Gallery (most of the Leiter images used here are from the same source) Photographer Saul Leiter (1923-2013) spent a large portion of his life […]
Windows, Shopping, and Christmas Past, NYC
Christmas Card Display: the observed and the observer From any recent study of New York the visitor from another planet would conclude that our observance of Christmas consisted chiefly in […]
General Pershing’s Welcome in New York City, 1919
General Pershing salutes New York “The Heart of New York goes out to you,” wrote mayor John F. Hylan in an “air letter” to General John J. Pershing (1860-1948) on […]
