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[VIDEO] Chicken & Waffles, Chopped Cheese, The Apollo Theater, Church Hats, and Live Jazz Make Harlem Great

2020-03-01T16:00:00-05:00

Chicken and waffles, the chopped cheese sandwich, Amateur Night at the legendary Apollo Theater, church hats and live jazz. What do these things have in common? Harlem. Let us take you there. This story is a part of our Human Condition series. Come along and let us connect you to some of the most peculiar, stirring, extraordinary, and distinctive people in the world.

Check out Great Big Story for more videos like this.

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[VIDEO] Chicken & Waffles, Chopped Cheese, Apollo Theater, Church Hats, and Live Jazz Make Harlem Great

2019-06-02T12:30:00-04:00

Chicken and waffles, the chopped cheese sandwich, Amateur Night at the legendary Apollo Theater, church hats and live jazz. What do these things have in common? Harlem. Let us take you there. This story is a part of our Human Condition series. Come along and let us connect you to some of the most peculiar, stirring, extraordinary, and distinctive people in the world.

Check out Great Big Story for more videos like this.

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[VIDEO] Peek Inside the Eclectic Upper East Side Hat Shop: Suzanne Couture Millinery

2019-03-12T12:30:00-04:00

Suzanne Couture Millinery is an eclectic shop on the Upper East Side that creates custom hats in just about every shape and style, for nearly every occasion. In this short segment of the excellent "The Dig" series from CBS New York, watch as host Elle McLogan goes to the shop to check it out.

"A woman always looks lovely in a big-brimmed hat," owner Suzanne Newman told CBS2's Elle McLogan.

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Vintage Photograph of Balloons, Crowds and Hats in Times Square in 1942

2016-07-18T10:45:38-04:00

The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the historical article it accompanied. Along with a rescan of the original photograph, the backs of each photo are also scanned, giving a behind-the-scenes look at the editorial process of one of the world's best newspapers.

Today's posting features a shot from April 22nd, 1942 that shows a hat-filled crowd gathered in Times Square to release balloons as part of a U.S.O. celebration.

April 22, 1942: Red, white and blue balloons were toted into Times Square as part of a U.S.O. spectacle hosted by the vaudeville comedian duo Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson. Though the comedians made an appeal for “adequate recreational facilities for soldiers on detached duty in remote areas,” any air of patriotic unity dissipated as soon as the balloons were released, and “a few pugilistically inclined spectators were restrained from wholesale grabbing by the police.”

The original article from 1942 has more.

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Vintage Photograph Shows a Crowded Nassau Street in Winter of 1926

2016-02-01T09:50:41-05:00

This amazing vintage photo was snapped on March 3rd, 1926. It shows a lively and crowded Nassau Street in the Financial District, looking south from Fulton Street down to John Street.

Here is a Google Street View of what the same view looks like today.

Check out the specimen page in the NYC Municipal Archives for more info on the photo.

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