New York, New York — you once were a helluva town. Now? The Bronx stays up all night and the Battery’s running down. In 1860, weeks before I came to be: A Gilded Age. Growth, industrialization ...

New York City will provide $6 million in funding to rehabilitate the newly landmarked building, which for 34 years was home to a school for Black children during segregation.

Little known outside of his home state of Illinois, he traveled to New York City in 1860 to help bolster his slim chances of winning the Republican presidential nomination.

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