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  1. Reforming "The Bend"
    date 1888 to 1897map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Urban Society, Urban-Life/Boosterism, Government, Progressive Reformers

    "Where Mulberry Street crooks like an elbow within hail of the old depravity of the Five Points, is "the Bend," foul core of New York's slums." These words, written by Jacob A. Riis in his groundbreaking 1890 work, How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, describe a desolate corner of the urban decay that characterized New York's Lower East Side in the late 1800s. Riis, a...

  2. Riot Turns Macbeth Performance into Real Tragedy
    date May 10, 1849map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Crime/Violence, Urban Society

    On the night of May 10, 1849 a riot erupted at the Astor Place Theater in New York City. Leading up to the riot, there had been a rivalry between the English actor Edward Macready and the American actor Edwin Forrest. Baker wrote that this rivalry began when Forrest believed that Macready sabotaged his recent tour of England. The nativist trend in the United States at the time did not help Macready's...

  3. The New York Milk Committee Preaches Pure Milk by Moving Pictures
    date March 24, 1913map New York, New Yorktags Health/Death, Women, Progressive Reformers, Urban Society, Food Regulation

    Urban infants in the 1840s had only a 50 percent chance of living to the age of five. Progressive reformers believed that high infant mortality was linked to adulterated and infectious milk, a concern that remained even after New York passed regulation laws. On March 25, 1913, the Committee of Women's Organizations of the New York Milk Committee held a meeting to educate mothers living in the tenements...

  4. Governor Claiborne Remembered 23 Years After Death...
    date January 20, 1840 to August, 1840map ORLEANS, Louisianatags New Orleans, Government, Politics, Urban Society, Governor Claiborne, Law, Urban-Life/Boosterism, War, Battle of New Orleans

    All the earth stood silent on December 20, 1803, as the Mississippi territorial governor rode in on the streets of New Orleans. Beautiful women adorned the balconies that hung over the Place d' Armes. Each country, represented by its own amount of officials and military, watched as the France flag descended and the American flag ascended succinctly down the pole, meeting halfway to acknowledge...

  5. Fire Destroys Wall Street
    date December 16, 1835 to December 17, 1835map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Urban Society, Urban-Life/Boosterism, Health/Death

    In the evening hours of Wednesday, December 16, 1835, smoke billowed above the downtown Manhattan skyline. At the time, no one knew exactly where the sparks had ignited and the fire begun, but by Thursday afternoon, the flames had engulfed approximately seventeen square blocks on and surrounding Wall Street. An article in the magazine The Albion indicated that by Thursday evening between 700 and 1000...

  6. French Opera House Destroyed in Flames
    date December 4, 1919map Orleans, Louisianatags Urban Society, Arts/Leisure

    On December 4, 1919, hundreds of New Orleans's high society watched as their social gathering spot was engulfed in flames. A writer at the time, Andre Lafargue, recounted the deep emotion embedded within the French Opera House, and the mourning that took place upon its historic loss to flames. The French Opera House, located on the corner of Bourbon and Toulouse Streets in the French Quarter, served...

  7. The Theatre of Everyday Life
    date January 1, 1848 to January 1, 1850map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Women, Urban Society

    As the daughter of Don Andres Almonaster y Rojas, the Cabildo's original benefactor, the Baroness Pontalba was no stranger to the notion of civic duty expressing itself through architecture. After a tumultuous marriage and divorce to a Parisian nobleman, sensationalized in various newspapers, she returned permanently to her hometown and sought to transplant the culture and sophistication she had grown...