Weekend Explorer
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Weekend Explorer
Weekend Explorer is a feature that appears occasionally in the Weekend section. A series of walking tours through areas of New York, in which a reporter, John Strausbaugh, seeks out still-visible traces of the city's layers of history.
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12 episodes
Floyd Bennett Field
Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, formerly New York City's first municipal airport, is a place New Yorkers go to camp out under the stars, put kayaks a...
Lowest Manhattan/Wall St.
Lowest Manhattan, home to Wall Street and the nation's first Congress, has endured a history plagued by massive fires, terrorist attacks and a string...
Brooklyn Heights's Gilded Age
More has gone on in Brooklyn Heights than its quiet streets and patrician houses will profess. Published: October 3, 2008
Weegee's Naked City
Weegee, the famed crime and street photographer, shot thousands of images that defined Manhattan as a film noir nightscape in the 1930s and '40s. Publ...
Religious Freedom in Flushing, Queens
Flushing is a place where immigrants from around the world have been coming for more than 350 years. It has always been a cradle of cultural and relig...
The Lively Canyons of San Juan Hill
Long before Lincoln Center existed, its surrounding neighborhoods, once called Lincoln Square and San Juan Hill, were already part of a thriving arts...
On the Trail of Brooklyn's Underground Railroad
The City of New York gave Duffield Street in downtown Brooklyn an alternate name: Abolitionist Place. It's an acknowledgment that long before Brooklyn...
In the Mansion Land of the 'Fifth Avenoodles'
The Upper East Side (from 59th to 96th Streets and Fifth Avenue to the East River) contains the city's most exclusive residences, private schools and...
When Barnum Took Manhattan
Today New Yorkers may think of Phineas Taylor Barnum only when the circus comes to town. But for almost 60 years he was one of the most celebrated fig...
Manhattan's Photobooths
The original photobooth may now be a relic of 20th century pop Americana but our love affair with it continues. And it began in New York City – in Ti...
Turf of Gangs and Gangsters
Hell's Kitchen has a history that's rich with gangsters and ghosts, streetwalkers and speakeasies, mysterious disappearances and gruesome murders. Pub...
Paths of Resistance in the East Village
For a long time the East Village was an urban frontier. It was a toehold in America for generations of new immigrants, but it was also an area of inte...