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How Did This 18th-Century English Drawing End Up in a New York Dumpster?
A sketch rescued in a dumpster in Hudson, New York is a long lost sketch by renowned English portrait painter George Romney.
Laughing Squid on MSN3h
The Unique Benefits of New York City Stoops
Harrison Trautschold Brown examined the unique culture and history of stoops in New York City, noting that it first ...
10 wry, controversial, viral covers from the New Yorker’s 100 years
The New Yorker, now celebrating its centenary, has defied media trends by giving an unusual amount of control to the artists ...
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The Trailblazing Black Librarian Who Rewrote the Rules of Power, Gender and Racial Passing
Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...
Apple's Vision Pro has a problem a year into its existence: Not enough apps
Apple said in August that the Vision Pro had 2,500 apps. According to one firm’s analysis, fewer than 1,900 remain active.
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One Hundred Years of 'The New Yorker', the Cult Magazine Born in a Poker Game: "Previously only read by diplomats or professors, now the audience is much broader"
In its pages, Borges, Camus, Hemingway, and Tom Wolfe have written. Its covers and cartoons are works of art. It dedicates months to the riskiest investigations. And it even has its own spelling rules ...
Why an Unknown Centrist Thinks He Can Become New York’s Next Mayor
Jim Walden, a lawyer with a string of high-profile cases but little name recognition, is running as an independent. In a ...
The Tablet2d
The Cathedral Club of Brooklyn: 125 Years of Catholic Leadership in the Public Square
Read the address Father Michael Bruno, dean of seminarians at St. Joseph Seminary and College, delivered to attendees at the ...
Woman Can't Believe What She Sees After Finding Family Photo From 1900s
Priscilla Blazer told Newsweek that she "knew nothing about" her great-grandmother's sister, but now she's desperate to find ...
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In a Derrick Adams’ painting, Black history collides joyfully with the present
As a young Black artist studying at Columbia University in New York, Derrick Adams made a discovery that would ...
‘Richest Black man in 1900’ built and ran nation’s first Black-owned textile mill in NC
Built by former slaves, the mill was so famous that W.E.B. DuBois included pictures of the building in an exhibit at the ...
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Are immigrants still welcome in Mayor Eric Adams' New York City? We asked New Yorkers.
New York City's mayor has embraced a more conservative, less immigrant friendly stance. What does that mean for a city that's ...