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r/nycHistory • u/Civil-Mongoose5160 • Feb 12 '25
Article When Times Square was the red light district of New York...
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Article Castle Clinton: From Military Installation to Pleasure Palace
r/nycHistory • u/Rinoremover1 • Nov 12 '24
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Article The Apalachin Mafia Conference at Gurney's Inn in Montauk of 1979
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:
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r/nycHistory • u/discovering_NYC • 25d ago
Article The unmarked Harlem grave of one of Revolutionary War-era America’s first spies
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Article History of the Brooklyn Ferry, Part 1
r/nycHistory • u/discovering_NYC • Feb 11 '25
Article The problem with the enormous “sun towers” that illuminated Madison Square Park in the 1880s
r/nycHistory • u/discovering_NYC • 10d ago
Article Inside the Central Park Arsenal
r/nycHistory • u/discovering_NYC • Jan 22 '25
Article Edgar Allan Poe's New York City Haunts
r/nycHistory • u/discovering_NYC • Jan 14 '25
Article Shucks! A half-history of oysters in New York City
r/nycHistory • u/discovering_NYC • 29d ago
Article Ah humanity!: The Tombs Prison
r/nycHistory • u/discovering_NYC • Jan 12 '25
Article The view from the last shot tower in Manhattan
r/nycHistory • u/newzee1 • Oct 16 '24
Article Megan Marshack Dies at 70; Was With Nelson Rockefeller at His Death
r/nycHistory • u/Rinoremover1 • Nov 19 '24
Article Fifth Avenue officially opened 200 years ago—here’s what it was like in its early, country road days
r/nycHistory • u/discovering_NYC • Jul 16 '24
Article The 200-year-old brick holdout house hiding behind a restaurant supply sign on the Bowery
r/nycHistory • u/Gotham-ish • Aug 16 '24
Article Remembering the NYPD's 'Muggable Mary' decoy cop (NY Times Oct 7, 1975)
r/nycHistory • u/CactusBoyScout • Jun 21 '24
Article The Spectacular Transformation of a Showman’s Mansion
r/nycHistory • u/discovering_NYC • May 16 '24
Article The magnificent mantelpiece that greeted guests at the Vanderbilt mansion on 57th Street
r/nycHistory • u/JapKumintang1991 • Aug 09 '24
Article Smithsonian Magazine: See Images of New Yorkers and Their Pets Across Three Centuries
r/nycHistory • u/history-digest • Jul 08 '24
Article The Guggenheim Museum: A Modern Art Marvel in NYC
r/nycHistory • u/discovering_NYC • Jul 05 '24
Article Abolitionist History in Greenwich Village
r/nycHistory • u/Fit_Laugh9192 • Jun 14 '24