Journal created:
on 28 May 2004 (#3299084)
Updated:
on 6 January 2024
Name:
Old New York
Membership:
Open
Posting Access:
All Members , Moderated
This is a community about the nyc that once was. For anyone fascinated with the history of nyc, especially it's underside of crime, vice, and fun. From the time of the Civil War Draft Riots until about 1990, when Times Square was cleaned up.
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, barnard, battery park, bowery, broadway, bronx, brooklyn, brothels, burlesque, central park, cheap clothes, chelsea, chinatown, chumleys, civil war, con men, coney island, crackheads, dives, draft riots, drag queens, drunks, east village, empire state building, fdny, five points, flophouses, flushing, fordham, gangs, gangs of new york, gangsters, gramercy park, grand central, gray's papaya, grays papaya, greenpoint, greenwich village, harlem, hell's kitchen, hippies, hoboken, hunter, jackson heights, jersey city, joseph mitchell, junkies, knickerbockers, lincoln center, little italy, long island, low life, lower east side, luc sante, madison square garden, manhattan, mcsorleys, metrocards, mets, midnight cowboy, mta, nathan's, new amsterdam, new jersey, new york, new york city, newark, nyc, nypd, old buildings, opium dens, prohibition, queens, radio city music hall, ramones, robert moses, skyscrapers, sleeze, south street seaport, st marks place, staten island, stonewall, subways, the bronx, the knicks, thompkins square park, thrift shops, times square, town hall, union square, union square park, upper east side, upper west side, uptown, village voice, warriors, washington heights, washington square, washington square park, west village, williamsburg, world trade center, wpa, yankees
