The Atlantic

The Street-Cries of New York

TO rural persons visiting New York, who have wisely avoided the crowded hotels, and taken lodging in comparatively quiet by-streets, the various cries of the city must be a source of wonder, curiosity ...
The New York Times

The Income Tax--Is it Payable for 1870?

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Untapped Cities

Today in NYC History: Lawyers Fight Back Against Tammany, Create the Bar of the City of NY in 1870

Introducing a column by Janos Marton of janos.nyc, writer, urban enthusiast, and political expert, a former counsel to the New York State Moreland Commission who made a splash this past fall blasting ...
Gizmodo

In 1870, New Yorkers Whooshed Under the City Via Pneumatic Tube

It sounds like something out of Jules Verne or The Jetsons, but in 1870 a “pneumatic subway” ran under Broadway in Manhattan. Built in secret so as to not to arouse the ire of Tammany Hall, only a ...
PBS

"New York Art Worlds, 1870-1890" at the Met

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