Safe houses and other structures used in the fight against slavery were often clandestine, and survivors today can be difficult to document. But there’s a 19th-century house in Washington Heights … Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Riverside Drive (Manhattan, NY)”
Homes for Sale in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn
By Gotham Rex on November 26, 2020
This week’s properties are in Manhattan Valley, Riverdale and Midwood. Source: New York Times
Audubon Park, From Hinterlands to Urban Density
By Gotham Rex on October 2, 2020
The ornithologist-painter John James Audubon took flight from Lower Manhattan to escape its ‘pestilential vapors.’ He landed in the picturesque woodland of the future Washington Heights, changing its landscape forever. Source: New York Times