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The #BrooklynBridge, one of NYC’s most iconic landmarks, is the subject of many poems, including modernist poet Hart Crane’s 1930 poem The Bridge, and beat poet Jack Kerouac’s 1965 poem The Brooklyn Bridge Blues. Can you think of others? #NationalPoetryMonth #NYCLandmarks https://t.co/tYqhD647YD

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#DYK that St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in the Chelsea Historic District has an interesting connection to the poem “A Visit from Saint Nicholas?” Clement Clarke Moore, often credited as author of the poem, donated the land for the church and seminary. #NYCLandmarks https://t.co/HcLnZgpFLb

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December is #UniversalHumanRightsMonth, celebrating the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Eleanor Roosevelt served as the 1st U.S. delegate and led the committee that drafted the Declaration. At the time, she lived at 29 Washington Sq. W. in the Greenwich Village HD. https://t.co/h07is6FER7

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Berenice Abbott documented NYC’s evolving character during the last years of the Great Depression in her photographic series “Changing New York,” published 1939. To learn more and view some of her work, visit this exhibition @metmuseum: https://t.co/irIW3yBU6P #WomensHistoryMonth https://t.co/sydzeRmfPo

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We are pleased to announce that Buried Beneath the City: An Archaeological History of New York was awarded the 2023 @SAAorg Popular Book Award! It uses urban archaeology to retell the history of NYC drawing upon the collections of the NYC Archaeological Repository #NYCArchaeology https://t.co/5SYnxJwbdB

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Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun opened this week in 1959 at the landmarked Ethel Barrymore Theatre. It was the first play written by a Black woman produced on Broadway. She lived at 337 Bleecker St. and 112 Waverly Pl. in the Greenwich Village HD. #WomensHistoryMonth https://t.co/P3EfRoFv2N