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Martin Luther King Jr. at the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. via Wiki Commons
How New Yorker Howard Bennet fought to make Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a national holiday
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Martin Luther King Jr. at the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. via Wiki Commons
Image via Wikimedia
The Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church in 1902, courtesy of the New-York Historical Society, Robert L. Bracklow Photograph Collection
Fire Patrol #2 in 2009, via Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Image Archive
Abandoned buildings along the Christopher Street Pier. Ca. 1974. © Jack Dowling Collection for GVSHP.
Zoom of the 1852 Dripps map of Manhattan, showing the proximity of downtown cemeteries, via David Rumsey Map Collection
The Ninth Avenue El near 14th Street c. 1914. Via Bain Collection, Library of Congress.
Jimi Hendrix, via Wiki Commons
Image courtesy of the Stein Team of Sotheby’s Downtown. Credit: Scott Wintrow/Gamut Photos.
Josh Charles image: Wikipedia.
Stonewall Inn, photo via Wikimedia
Caffe Reggio, via Prayitno/Flickr