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English. New York Street Games is a 2010 documentary film directed by Matt Levy about children's games played by kids in New York City for centuries. [ 1] The games are fondly remembered by people who grew up in the city. Current and historical documentary footage shows children playing these games, interspersed with scenes of celebrities ...
Arthur Avenue is a street in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City, which serves as the center of the Bronx's "Little Italy". [1] Although the historical and commercial center of Little Italy is Arthur Avenue itself, the area stretches across East 187th Street from Arthur Avenue to Beaumont Avenue, and is similarly lined with delis, bakeries, cafes and various Italian merchants.
Skully. Children playing a skully-type game on Manhattan's East Side, early 1910s. Skully (also called skelly, skellies, skelsy, skellzies, scully, skelzy, scummy top, tops, loadies or caps) is a children's game played on the streets of New York City and other urban areas. [13] Sketched on the street usually in chalk, a skully board allows a ...
February 12, 2010. Little Italy (also Italian: Piccola Italia) is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City, known for its Italian population. [ 2] It is bounded on the west by Tribeca and Soho, on the south by Chinatown, on the east by the Bowery and Lower East Side, and on the north by Nolita .
Five Points, Manhattan. Coordinates: 40°42′52″N 74°00′01″W. Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a Spot, 1889. Five Points neighborhood. Five Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The neighborhood, partly built on low-lying land which had filled in the freshwater lake ...
The second generation of Italians in New York City (1921) online; Marraro, Howard R. "Italians in New York during the first half of the nineteenth century." New York History 26.3 (1945): 278-306. online; Marraro, Howard R. "Italians in New York in the Eighteen Fifties: Part I." New York History 30.2 (1949): 181-203. online; Model, Suzanne.
A long-running effort to turn a stretch of Harlem Avenue on the Far Northwest Side into a walkable showcase for Italian American businesses and culture like Little Italy’s Taylor Street is ...
Greenwich Village, [ pron 1] or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west. Greenwich Village also contains several subsections, including the West Village west of Seventh ...