At 6:50 a.m. on December 21, 1935, police trumpeters roused the truckers and dealers at the Bronx Terminal Market. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia climbed onto the back of a vegetable truck and proclaimed a ban on baby artichokes for posing a “serious and threatening emergency” in the city...
The Dutch & the English Part 5: The Return of the Dutch and What Became of the Wall
The Last County: The Bronx
The Objective Eye
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The Dutch & the English Part 4: Invasion?
In late August 1664 the Burgomasters & Schepens (mayors and aldermen) of New Amsterdam were faced with “four King’s frigates from England, sent hither by his Majesty and his brother, the Duke of York, with commission to reduce not only this place, but also the whole N. Netherland under his Majesty’s authority…”