Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this story. During the lean years of the Great Depression, New York City Parks Commissioner Robert Moses set out an ambitious goal to build swimming pools to relieve the ...
Read Part 1 and Part 3 of this story. “Hot time, summer in the city” has been New York’s theme music for a long time. It gets miserably hot and disgustingly humid here, often for weeks on end in July ...