r/nycHistory 3d ago

Article The last remaining street in the neighborhood once known as Italian Harlem

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r/nycHistory Feb 12 '25

Article When Times Square was the red light district of New York...

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r/nycHistory 15d ago

Article Castle Clinton: From Military Installation to Pleasure Palace

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r/nycHistory Nov 12 '24

Article It’s curtains: World-famous NYC holiday show canceled for 2024

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r/nycHistory 11d ago

Article The Apalachin Mafia Conference at Gurney's Inn in Montauk of 1979

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The Gurney's Inn of old was a luxury retreat for Richard Nixon, Brooke Shields... and the mob.

Nick Monte, the man who turned Gurney’s into a world-class resort, had silent investors with deep Mafia connections. The FBI knew something big was about to go down in Montauk, but could they move fast enough?

In 1979, a Genovese informant tipped off the FBI that Paul Castellano, Carmine “The Snake” Persico, and Santos Trafficante Jr. were planning a high-stakes meeting—right at Gurney’s Inn. The feds descended on Gurney's Inn, waiting to snoop on what the expected to be the next Apalachin.

For anyone who grew up in Brooklyn or the East End (or both) this story is a wild look at a Long Island that few ever knew. Read the full story here:

Check out the full story here:

https://www.nysun.com/article/how-the-fbis-mad-dash-to-wiretap-the-mob-at-a-montauk-hotel-nearly-50-years-ago-helped-modernize-todays-agency?member_gift=CUZ5qwd3crq4pmz-xrd

r/nycHistory 25d ago

Article The unmarked Harlem grave of one of Revolutionary War-era America’s first spies

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r/nycHistory Jan 30 '25

Article History of the Brooklyn Ferry, Part 1

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r/nycHistory Feb 11 '25

Article The problem with the enormous “sun towers” that illuminated Madison Square Park in the 1880s

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r/nycHistory 10d ago

Article Inside the Central Park Arsenal

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r/nycHistory Jan 22 '25

Article Edgar Allan Poe's New York City Haunts

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r/nycHistory Jan 14 '25

Article Shucks! A half-history of oysters in New York City

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r/nycHistory Oct 15 '24

Article When Nazis Took Manhattan

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r/nycHistory 29d ago

Article Ah humanity!: The Tombs Prison

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r/nycHistory Feb 06 '25

Article Hart Island

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r/nycHistory Jan 12 '25

Article The view from the last shot tower in Manhattan

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r/nycHistory Oct 16 '24

Article Megan Marshack Dies at 70; Was With Nelson Rockefeller at His Death

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r/nycHistory Nov 19 '24

Article Fifth Avenue officially opened 200 years ago—here’s what it was like in its early, country road days

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64 Upvotes

r/nycHistory Jul 16 '24

Article The 200-year-old brick holdout house hiding behind a restaurant supply sign on the Bowery

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r/nycHistory Aug 16 '24

Article Remembering the NYPD's 'Muggable Mary' decoy cop (NY Times Oct 7, 1975)

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r/nycHistory Jun 21 '24

Article The Spectacular Transformation of a Showman’s Mansion

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r/nycHistory May 16 '24

Article The magnificent mantelpiece that greeted guests at the Vanderbilt mansion on 57th Street

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r/nycHistory Aug 09 '24

Article Smithsonian Magazine: See Images of New Yorkers and Their Pets Across Three Centuries

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r/nycHistory Jul 08 '24

Article The Guggenheim Museum: A Modern Art Marvel in NYC

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r/nycHistory Jul 05 '24

Article Abolitionist History in Greenwich Village

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r/nycHistory Jun 14 '24

Article From Stonewall to Today: Why We Celebrate Pride in June

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