The Killing Fields of East New York: Book Talk with Stacy Horn
East New York, once a thriving working-class neighborhood on its way up, has the highest number of unsolved murders in New York City. Why?
On July 25, 1647, New York City’s first zoning law was put into place. The law came from the
Editor note: Untapped Cities columnist Janos Marton, New York City lawyer, activist and founder of the website janos.nyc has
Stuyvesant at the invasion of New Amsterdam by English forces in 1664. Image via Wikimedia Commons New Amsterdam in the
New Yorkers have been agitators and disrupters from the start, even back when New Amsterdam was just a small settlement
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