A Little-Noticed Holocaust Memorial
“We are here, on this gentle spring day, to remember the unspeakable horror of the Holocaust and to mark that evil with a monument to the victims of that injustice.”—from […]
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NYC’s Unusual Street Signs
“Give me comrades and lovers by the thousand! … Give me the streets of Manhattan!” —from ‘Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun’ by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) Most street signs in […]
The Northern Dispensary, Briefly
“At a meeting of Citizens held at the Rooms of Major Flint S. Kidder, April 6th, 1827, convened for the purpose of taking into consideration the expediency of establishing a […]
Explained: the Seal of the City of New York
“Sigillum Civitatis Novi Eboraci” — this Latin phrase translates to Seal of the City of New York From school houses to library buildings to police shields, the Seal of the […]
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