top of page

1070 results found for "new york"

  • Alfred Cheney Johnston and the Artistry Behind the Ziegfeld Follies' Golden Era

    Alfred Cheney with two examples of his Ziegfeld Follies Picture This, 1930s New York City There was a His studio, tucked away in New York City , was a revolving door of dancers, actresses, and ingénues, Born in 1885 in New York, Johnston was raised in an environment that valued refinement and culture. He eventually moved out of New York and continued to take private portrait commissions, but the grand Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. https://www.loc.gov/pictures New York Public Library

  • The Making of The Godfather And The Uneasy Handshake Between Hollywood And The Mob

    Ruddy is seen talking to Brando on a set in New York City's Little Italy neighborhood. The novel spent sixty-seven weeks on The New York Times  best-seller list and sold millions of copies The Deal with Joe Colombo Robert Evans got a threatening phone call at his New York hotel. Colombo also requested that the proceeds from the New York premiere go to his league. through New York.

  • The Farmhouse On 84th Street and Broadway

    York Mirror . The New York Herald  reported that the entire family was stunned but unharmed, while every window in Theresa College in Montreal and later serving as Commissioner of Charities and Correction in New York Patrick Brennan, meanwhile, continued to grapple with the changing landscape of New York City. The house, which once stood at the heart of an evolving New York, became another casualty of the city's

  • The Final Days of Sid Vicious (The Death of a Punk)

    When Sid Vicious stepped out of Rikers Island, New York, on 1 February 1979, oblivion was already close John Simon Ritchie walks from Rikers Island prison in New York, Oct. 16, 1978 after being released on New York City police carry the body of punk rock star Sid Vicious from apartment in the Greenwich Village section of New York, Feb. 2, 1979.  On a flight from San Francisco to New York, he fell into a coma induced by methadone, diazepam, and alcohol

  • When Nazis ‘Played’ in Madison Square Garden In 1939: A Dark Chapter in American History

    A New York City mounted policeman outside Madison Square Garden during a German American Bund meeting A Protest in the Heart of New York While 20,000 Bund members celebrated Nazism inside, the streets of Men struggle with a protester at New York's Madison Square Garden on Feb. 20, 1939, during a pro-Nazi The New York Times reported that the streets were so packed that, at one point, the orchestra from a The New York Police Department, anticipating violence, had deployed 1,700 officers around Madison Square

  • The Wall Street Bombing of 1920: America’s Unsolved Mystery in the Heart of Finance

    In the offices of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), located just blocks away, the exchange president After leaving New York, Buda resumed the use of his real name in order to secure a passport from the The New York City Police Department also proposed forming a ‘special police’ unit to monitor ‘radical Sources New York Times archive: “Bomb Kills 30, Injures 300 in Wall Street” (September 17, 1920) – https York City  – https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wall-street-bombing-rocks-new-york-city PBS

  • Abe Reles: The Notorious Hitman of Murder, Inc. And His Mysterious Death

    York. In one attempt to eliminate Reles, the Shapiros lured him and Goldstein to East New York, only to ambush However, the New York authorities soon closed in on Murder, Inc., and Reles found himself facing charges Turkus and Sid Feder, Murder, Inc.: The Story of the Syndicate  (New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1951 The New York Times , “Abe Reles, Murder Aide, Dies in Fall,” November 12, 1941.

  • The Lonely Hearts Killers: The Strange and Deadly Partnership of Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck

    On the morning of the 8th March, 1951, reporters gathered outside Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York One such organisation was Mother Dinene’s Friendly Club, based in New York. After leaving prison in 1946, Fernandez moved to New York City and joined the club. After two days Fernandez returned to New York. Fernandez invited her to visit him in New York.

  • ‘Marlon Brando Broke My Jaw’: Ron Galella, The Paparazzo Who Defined the Celebrity Snapshot

    shape the modern idea of celebrity, capturing unguarded moments on the streets and in the nightclubs of New York and Los Angeles. In 1973, Galella was following the actor to a restaurant in New York’s Chinatown when Brando snapped. After years of relentless pursuit, which included him tailing her across the streets of New York, she York.

  • How Edward Hopper “Storyboarded” His Painting Nighthawks

    In some ways, it appeared almost hyper-realistic of New York to be a part of New York itself. For further insights into the captivating storyboarding go here see Nighthawks at Art News and see

  • Joseph Colombo Sr and the Paradox of a Public Mafia Boss

    On the late morning of 28th June, 1971, thousands of people gathered at Columbus Circle in New York City York. York. He became the first American born boss of a New York crime family. His elevation puzzled rivals. (right), picketing the FBI headquarters in New York as part of a 1971 Italian-American Civil Rights League

  • Lewis Hine: The Photographer Who Helped America See Itself

    Maybe it’s one of his more optimistic shots, a steelworker perched high above New York City, the skyline He eventually attended the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and New York University, where Using cumbersome equipment, Hine worked high above the streets of New York, capturing the balance and Lewis Hine died on 3 November 1940 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, aged 66. Men at Work: Photographic Studies of Modern Men and Machines . New York: The Macmillan Company.

bottom of page