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Canal Street, Chinatown, NYC
Canal Street, Chinatown, NYC

There is a lot of stuff going on the City, and we can't write about it all. Here are some interesting things some of our friends have written up lately.

Vintage Photograph From 1893 Shows a Much Different Madison Square Park

Look at Madison Square Park in 1893 – Pre-Privatization & Shake Shack
Look at Madison Square Park in 1893 – Pre-Privatization & Shake Shack
Photo: Danny Meyer

Appearing in Danny Meyer's new book titled Setting the Table, this great vintage photograph of Madison Square Park shows how it looked back in 1893, much different that it appears today. As our friends at the Washington Square Park Blog pointed out:

The park seems to have retained the ‘bones’ and basic layout of that era. What is obviously missing is the Shake Shack

Among the missing Shake Shack and Dog Run, other notable differences is the missing Flatiron Plaza, perimeter fencing, and benches.

Learn All About the 1920 Bombing of Wall Street in This PBS Documentary

Premiering February 13th on PBS American Experience, a new one-hour documentary tells the story of how in 1920, a group of Galleanists—Italian anarchists—launched an attack on Wall Street by placing a horse and wagon filled with over 100 pounds of dynamite near the corner of Wall Street and Broad Street, outside of the J.P. Morgan and Co building. For a sneak peek, our friends at Untapped Cities recently obtained this exclusive clip from the documentary.