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Five years before Mrs. O’ Leary’s cow allegedly destroyed a third of Chicago and claimed approximately 300 lives in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, officials in Manhattan recognized the …
The father of a Brearley School student has pulled her from the school, citing its practice of “anti-racism” as the catalyst in a lengthy April 13 letter he wrote and …
In the early 1800s, John Jacob Astor sought refuge from the flurry of activity, summer heat, and disease that was centered around the southern tip of Manhattan. The areas of …