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Our Next Free Presentation
Tuesday,September 24 at 630pm at the Hostel. 
Tin Pan Alley Uptown and Down:
The composers, lyricists and song publishers who lived in the Bloomingdale neighborhood and worked in Tin Pan Alley A program featuring the history of the links between our Upper West Side neighborhood and Tin Pan Alley with live music! At this presentation the "Second Annual Jim Torain Award" will honor Cal Jones, Manhattan Borough Historian, Emeritus. Click Upcoming Events for more details Tuesday, September 24 at 6:30p.m. Hostelling International-NY 891 Amsterdam Avenue (at 103rd Street) Special walking tour
At the conclusion of our Tin Pan Alley presentation on September 24, audience members can sign up for a special tour of Tin Pan Alley, the Old Chelsea Theater District and environs conducted by Laurence Frommer, President of Save Chelsea. The tour will take place on Saturday, October 26 from 2-4pm and begin from the Hotel Chelsea, 222 West 23rd Street. More Info at Free Walking Tour Upcoming Free Walking Tour
WALK THE HISTORIC CROTON AQUEDUCT ROUTE THROUGH THE UPPER WEST SIDE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 at 1030am Meet in front of the Highbridge Recreation Center 2301 Amsterdam Ave at 173rd St. This walk will be led by Teresa Elwert, Bloomingdale resident and member of the Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct. You'll learn about the Manhattan street grid and see traces of the 1842 aqueduct along and near Amsterdam Ave. (Teresa will leave for the Rec Center at 9:30 on the #1 train at 103rd St., then switch at 157th St. to the M101 on Amsterdam.) Important Details at Upcoming Events Save the Date for a Free Presentation: October 16, 2019 at the Hostel
How a Community Blooms:
An Oral History of the BAiP 
Bloomingdale Aging in Place, known fondly as BAiP, is a thriving local community of neighbors who share information, social activities, and help each other in imaginative ways as they age. Hear in the words of several of BAiP’s founders how the organization came into being, how it grew, and how it functions today as an example of the wave of the future.
Click Upcoming Events for more info. Wednesday, October 16 at 630pm Hostelling International-NY 891 Amsterdam Avenue (at 103rd Street) Upcoming Free Walking Tour
October 2, 2019 (Wed) 6pm 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?
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. Check out the latest additions at our PAST EVENTS page.
 Peter Salwen receiving award
On October 16, 2018 the BNHG presented its "First Annual Jim Torain Award" to Peter Salwen, noted author, painter and historian, for his research and sharing of local history.
Read more at our PAST EVENTS page Recommended by Marjorie Cohen
Waterfront Manhattan: From Henry
Hudson to the High Line (2018) Dr. Kurt Schlichting tells the storied past of the Manhattan waterfront and the struggle between public and private control of the this most priceless asset. Jameson W. Doig, author of Empire on the Hudson, praised the book as succeeding "admirably in describing the evolution of Manhattan’s waterfront through the past several centuries--so far as I know there is no published work of such scope and richness.” 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. |