Tag: bloomingdale

The Apthorp mansion was "an exceedingly good house, elegantly furnished, commanding beautiful prospects."

A bicycling craze swept America (and the Upper West Side) in the 1890s, with bike clubs, biking clothes, bicycle parades, and speed limit laws for bicyclists.

The women who founded the Association were profoundly religious in their mission but were not from any particular Protestant church.

New York City had to recover from the Revolutionary War after George Washington marched back to downtown Manhattan in November 1783

So many historians have written about the Battle of Harlem Heights on September 16, 1776

New York City’s colonial history provides a context for Bloomingdale’s history before the American Revolution.

By Marjorie Cohen The members of a local history group think that the name of the area from 96th street to 110th, from the river to the park, should be known as Bloomingdale. They want to differentiate this piece of the island from the rest of the Upper West Side, ...