Enslaved Africans with dreams of being free found safety in the heart of NYC. To the naked eye, the 4-story brick row house on East Fourth Street is just another of the 19th-century buildings on a ...
The 2-by-2-foot unique space hidden under the floorboards of the Merchant House Museum in the East Village was recognized for years. What wasn’t known was that ...
This is the most significant find in historic preservation in my career, and it’s very important that we preserve this.” ...
A tiny secret passage in the Merchant's House Museum, an 1832 rowhouse in Manhattan's East Village, has been linked to the ...