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View of lower Manhattan from Brooklyn Strand in 1825

View of lower Manhattan from Brooklyn Strand in 1825

This watercolor by William Wall (1792 – 1864) shows lower Manhattan across the East River as it looked from Brooklyn Strand 1825. The river scene is filled with sailboats, sailing ships, and a steamship. Wall was born in Dublin in 1792 and arrived in New York in 1812....

Gateway Center and Point Park, Pittsburgh, PA

Gateway Center and Point Park, Pittsburgh, PA

The Gateway Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a high-rise building complex planned during World War II to redevelop the dense and "blighted" forks of the Ohio River into Point State Park and a "corporate gateway" to numerous companies with offices in the building....

5 reasons every person should visit the Statue of Liberty

5 reasons every person should visit the Statue of Liberty

"Liberty Enlightening the World", more commonly known as The Statue of Liberty, was a gift from France to the United States commemorating the alliance of France and the United States during the American Revolution and the subsequent abolition of slavery. According to...

12 beautiful postcards from Jersey City’s glory days

12 beautiful postcards from Jersey City’s glory days

Jersey City is the second-most-populous city in New Jersey, with a population of 264,000 people as of 2010. What is interesting about Jersey City is that in the 1930's the city had a population of more than 300,000 people. The city's population then began to decline...