Union Square’s Independence Flagstaff
“How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of and which no other people on earth enjoy.” —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) This quote is chiseled at […]
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The Gay Rainbow Flag
“It all goes back to the first moment of the first flag back in 1978 for me. Raising it up and seeing it there blowing in the wind for everyone […]
The Fabulous Frick Collection
“The announcement yesterday that Mr. Frick’s almost unrivalled art treasures were to pass to the city came as a surprise to all save a few of his intimate friends.” —from […]
The Majestic Apartments
“If the new Majestic is in existence after 1981, it will be somewhat of an architectural curiosity.” — Irwin S. Chanin (1891–1988), developer of The Majestic, and his unrealized prediction […]
Central Park’s Seventh Regiment Memorial
The Veteran Corps “commemorated the memory of their comrades who fell in the Civil War with appropriate exercises… The monument was almost hidden from sight by wreaths and flowers, as […]
Getting Creative with Post-It Notes
“Put it on a piece of paper and then we can stick it to anything.” —Art Fry, his advice to Spencer Silver and Geoff Nicholson, his colleagues at 3M who […]
The First Presbyterian Church turns 300
“The interior of the edifice presents a novel and yet a very agreeable and impressive aspect. It is of the perpendicular Gothic Style, without columns to sustain the long extending […]
A Free Press and Horace Greeley
“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.” —Horace Greeley (1811–1872) Today is World Press Freedom Day. To highlight […]
The New York Botanical Garden, Spring 2016
“To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, […]
Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday with Romeo and Juliet
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.” —the […]
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