What do Dr. Seuss, Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker have in common? They all worked for PM, a highly progressive New York newspaper that covered local and international news. If you’ve never heard ...
Lena Horne sings at the Daily News’ Harvest Moon Ball at Madison Square Garden. The Brooklyn-born singer (1917) made her singing debut at 16 in Harlem’s famous Cotton Club. A star of MGM musicals in ...
Robert H. Jackson was a Democrat from New York. That’s the first thing to know. He also didn’t have a law degree, which may explain why he understood the law so well. If you want to better understand ...
Arteries of New York City, a documentary by Encyclopedia Britannica Films, is a fascinating look at New York's transportation infrastructure in the 1940s. Courtesy of the Prelinger Archive, the film ...
I thought I had stepped into a film noir set when I attended the opening of Altarena Playhouse’s “The Wisdom of Eve.” Thanks to Ava Byrd’s fabulous costumes and Jeremy Letheule’s hair designs and wigs ...
It’s no Glass House, but a rare and long-forgotten Philip Johnson-designed home now on the market has a bit more teeth to it—at least in name. The celebrated mid-century architect’s Wolfhouse, located ...
New York World's Fair was a comic published by DC Comics in 1939 and 1940 at the World's Fair in New York for 15 cents. The most popular DC characters at the time had stories inside- Batman and Robin, ...