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By Dalen Wakeley-Smith
As Europe erupted in war in 1914, a very different battle was fought on the streets of New York City. Fortune tellers, dreaded soothsayers who supposedly conned thousands of New Yorkers out of their money, had overrun the city. Such anxieties had even led to the state law against “those pretending to tell the future” by 1900.
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From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower: C.G. Hine’s 1905 Photographic Survey of Broadway
Nick Yablon
Columbia University Press
May 2026, 344 pp.
Interviewed By Adam Kocurek
Today on the blog, Adam Kocurek, Ph.D. candidate in History at The CUNY Graduate Center and adjunct lecturer at Hunter College, talks with Stephen Petrus, Director of Public History Programs at LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, about the new digital exhibit “Panic, Politics, and Policy: New York City during the AIDS Crisis, ...