There might be only a few headlines which could be as concerning to a Central New Yorker as the one which appeared in the Syracuse Post-Standard on March 2, 1900. The New York State Fair, the annual ...

After a century of tumultuous change and growth, at the start of the 21st century New York remarkably had come to resemble nothing so much as New York at the start of the 20th century. The differences ...

There is a particular fascination and nostalgia today for the metropolis at the turn of the century, and for its architecture. It has recently called forth a series of books, The Sacred Spring: The ...

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