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City Lore’s mission is to foster New York City – and America’s – living cultural heritage through education and public programs in service of cultural equity and social justice.| City Lore
City Lore’s mission is to foster New York City – and America’s – living cultural heritage through education and public programs in service of cultural equity and social justice.| City Lore
As the Staten Island Ferry lurched toward the Whitehall terminal in Manhattan, passengers—mostly tourists on a late-summer afternoon—surged toward the doors in a haze of coconut sunscreen and the vestiges of just-smoked cigarettes. As the doors slid open, brackish harbor air wafted over the ramp leading to the Sandy Ground. The depature horn reverberated […]| City Lore
Have you every wanted to communicate with pigs, speak Pigalese? You can't learn it from Berlitz or Duolingo. You need to consult animalist and president of Humble Pig Sanctuary Eliza Zeitlin in Darlington, South Carolina. Here's your chance.| City Lore
The entrance looks like any other East Village former tenement: splashed with graffiti, a battered box of buzzers, a steep staircase lit by an uneasy fluorescent light, though a scrawled message on the center of the door—BELIEVE—may provide a hint of what’s inside. Round a corner at the top and you are greeted by a […]| City Lore
I’ve been playing mas as long as I can remember. I grew up in the Belmont neighborhood of Port of Spain, Trinidad. As a child, when I heard the drummers and steelbands coming down the hill at 4am on Carnival morning I knew J’ouvert was about to begin! I would grab one of my mother’s dresses for a costume and run out in our yard and join in. I got the idea from seeing a man playing mas wearing his wife’s dress and hat—he was just walking down the street and everybody was laughing. ...| City Lore
On July 27, 2025, one of Nueva York’s most beloved plena singers passed away. Lovers of traditional plena song will remember José Rivera for his fiery vocals| City Lore
Draft Written by Khuent Rose **Band Operations and Management** **Do you have a safe/temperature-controlled place to practice?** – **Secure Practice Space**: Identify a location that is climate-controlled and safe. Consider partnerships with community centers or schools that have appropriate facilities. **Can you put on a 45-60 min performance without calling in ‘ringers’/crackshots?** – **Self-Sufficient Performances**: […]| City Lore
2. The smooth and clacking TOUCH of rummaging through the plastic trinkets in the dollar drawers at dAN's Parents' House on City Island, a vintage toy store| City Lore
Brenda Prohaska sits in the driver's seat of her hearse, at a standstill on the Hutch, flicking through messages on her phone with one long red fingernail and| City Lore
It's a Thursday night in Greenpoint, and strange perfumes and washes of colored light drift down the industrial staircase of Loft Story, an event space.| City Lore
Ladies and Jellyspoons, Hoboes and Tramps, Crosseyed Mosquitos and Bowlegged Ants, I come before you to stand behind you to tell you something I know nothing about. AI was something I knew nothing about. To satisfy my curiosity, I input a story I had written using traditional nonsense verses into ChatGPT. The results were startling, flabbergasting, and it’s the subject of my new Poetry of Everyday Life Blog.| City Lore
