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Prohibition in Bloomingdale
January 17, 2020 was the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Prohibition era. I’d planned to write a blog post about that era in our neighborhood, especially since we were the site of the Lion Brewery on Columbus Avenue … Continue reading
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Spanish Flu in Bloomingdale: A Search for How Our Neighborhood Coped in 1918
This post was written by Pam Tice, a member of the Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group Planning Committee I had a little bird, Its name was Enza, I opened the window, And in-flu-enza. Children’s Rhyme, 1918 As our 2020 Pandemic Spring … Continue reading
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Growing Old in Bloomingdale Part III
The Home for Old Men and Aged Couples and St. Luke’s Home for Indigent Females Both of these homes, developed by New York’s Protestant Episcopal Church, were in Morningside Heights, to the north of our Bloomingdale neighborhood. They were both … Continue reading
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Growing Old in Bloomingdale, Part II
The Association for the Relief of Respectable Aged indigent Females Since the 2013 post (linked in Part 1) on the history of the organization and its homes for elderly women, the Annual Reports from 1814 to 1924 for the … Continue reading
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Growing Old in Bloomingdale: Nineteenth Century Homes for the Aged, Part 1
This post and the two that follow on the same topic are written by Pam Tice, member of the Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group planning committee. In the early days of the nineteenth century as the population of New York City … Continue reading
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Our Bloomingdale Wall
Once we had a wall running right through our Bloomingdale neighborhood. Only it wasn’t called a wall; it was the Clendening Bridge, a portion of the Croton Aqueduct, the city’s first major infrastructure project to address the problem of … Continue reading
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Bloomingdale Neighborhood Stores, Part Two
A previous post (LINK) about food provisioning in Bloomingdale described the streetscape of Columbus, Amsterdam and Broadway, a dynamic jumble of food suppliers: fruit and vegetables, bakeries, meats, seafood, delicatessens, and wine/liquor stores. From 1890 to 1940 while a few … Continue reading
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Provisioning Bloomingdale: Stores that fed the residents of Bloomingdale
Here is another post on the Bloomingdale neighborhood of the Upper West Side. It was written by Pam Tice, member of the Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group’s Planning Committee. Bloomingdale’s residential development brought numerous retail food shops into the neighborhood, from … Continue reading
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New York’s Colored Orphan Asylum
Summary of Presentation by Dr. William Seraile on February 27, 2018 William Seraile is Professor Emeritus of History at Lehman College of the City University of New York. He is the author of five books, including “Angels of Mercy: White … Continue reading
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Bloomingdale’s Finest Mansion: From Elmwood to Elm Park, 1764-1891
This post covers another one of Bloomingdale’s lost structures. It was written by Pam Tice, a member of the Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group’s Planning Committee. When you walk from West 96th to 91st Streets on Columbus Avenue, or walk east … Continue reading
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