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Upcoming Special Event
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Our Next Free Presentation
December 4 at the Hostel
"A Novel Synthesis of Planning, Environmental and Urban History"
Presented by Kara Murphy Schlichting, author of the recently published New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore.
Wednesday, December 4 at 6:30pm
Hostelling International-NY 891 Amsterdam Avenue (at 103rd Street) All are welcome to this free presentation. More info at Upcoming Events Upcoming Free Walking Tour
December 22, 2019 (Sun) at 1pm Meet at Hostelling International 891 Amsterdam Avenue(103rd)  Jim Mackin
Explore the history of the
Bloomingdale Neighborhood with local historian Jim Mackin. More information at Upcoming Events 1917 New York Military Census
 Throngs of New Yorkers fill the streets of Manhattan to celebrate Armistice Day, November 11
.While doing historical research at the New York County Clerk's office, Gilbert Tauber, member of the BNHG planning committee, came across a surprising document. In this article he notes the significance of the long overlooked and highly informative 1917 New York Military Census and its possibilities for further research. Read his account at
1917 New York Military Census. The Latest Blog
See a complete list with links to all 35 BNHG Blogs at BNHG BLOGS. 
The latest blog by Pam Tice, member of the Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group’s Planning Committee:
Once we had a wall running right through our Bloomingdale neighborhood. Only it wasn’t called a wall; it was the Clendening Bridge, a portion of the Croton Aqueduct, the city’s first major infrastructure project to address the problem of getting clean water to New York City. It ran through our neighborhood about 100 feet west of Columbus Avenue. It came down Amsterdam Avenue and swung over at an angle toward Columbus Avenue, straightening out at 105-104 Streets to head downtown in a straight line. Read the complete blog including eight photos at Our Bloomingdale Wall |
Missed one of our Past Events?
"Tin Pan Alley" video recently added on our Past Events Page The BNHG offers presentations of local historical interest monthly between September and June as described at our UPCOMING EVENTS page. Thanks to the Columbus Amsterdam BID, videos of past BNHG presentations are being added to our website. October's "Tin Pan Alley" presentation is the latest addition at our PAST EVENTS page.
Join Our Mailing List If you would like email notifications of our monthly presentations, send a request through our Contact Us page.  Cal Jones receiving award
As part of its "Tin Pan Alley" presentation on September 24, 2019, the BNHG presented its "Second Annual Jim Torain Award" to Cal Jones, Manhattan Borough Historian Emeritus, for his work in furthering the public’s knowledge of, and interest in, the history of the city. Dr. Rob Snyder, incoming Manhattan Borough Historian, made the presentation in behalf of the BNHG.
See the video at our Past Events page. Recommended by Pam Tice, BNHG planning committee member
Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers by John Strausbaugh is a rich and readable New York City history of the World War II years, with nearly half of the book covering the pre-War years and the cast of characters who took the stage by the time of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Strausbaugh focuses on the people who made our history, from FDR and LaGuardia, to the role Vincent Astor played in developing spy networks, to the Manhattan Project, and the saboteurs who infiltrated the city regularly. He includes minor characters, from bobby-soxers and zoot-suiters, to gangsters and conscientious objectors, and just regular folks who stepped into famous photographs.
More Books at BNHG Bookshelf
About Us
The Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group promotes education and research on the history of the Bloomingdale neighborhood of New York City's Upper West Side from 96th to 110th Street between Central Park and Riverside Drive. For more than 300 years, the area has been referred to as Bloomingdale after the Netherlands town of Bloemendaal, Dutch for "valley of flowers." Learn more about our group's activities at our ABOUT US page. The Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group began in 2000 as the Park West Neighborhood History Group. 
BNHG Library Collection
During renovation of the Bloomingdale branch of the New York Public Library, public access to the collection is limited. Come visit the collection when the library reopens in late spring of 2020. 
The BNHG Library Collection, located at the Bloomingdale branch of the New York Public Library, contains more than a thousand items of local history in 150 categories, for example, this book excerpt from the "Pasteur Institute" file. Explore the history of your Bloomingdale neighborhood. Come to the library to explore the many items in this file and the 150 other files!
More information at BNHG Library Collection. Read historical background on the New York Pasteur Institute at Pam Tice’s blog: The New York Pasteur Institute 
'Park West Village was one of Robert Moses's earlier housing projects. It was intended to provide an incentive to middle- income residents to return to the Upper West Side and be part of the multi-economic, multi-ethnic neighborhood. Winifred Armstrong and Barbara Earnest wrote this pamphlet in 2007 for the Park West Neighborhood History Group (predecessor of the BNHG.)
Read the entire pamphlet at Park West Village. |