Secrets of NYC
✉️ The Lost Pneumatic Tube System at the NYSE
Long before fiber optics and wireless networks, bursts of compressed air kept Wall Street moving.
New York Marine Hospital
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Architecture
NYC's Former Quarantine Islands and Hospitals
1. Bellevue Horse-drawn ambulance at Bellevue Hospital in 1895. Image: Public Domain from Wikimedia Commons Bellevue Hospital, which still exists,
Architecture
How A 19th Century Mob Of Arsonists Burned Down Staten Island’s Quarantine Hospital
In 1858, before Staten Island consolidated with the rest of New York City, the New York Marine Hospital housed around
