Calling all history geeks, New Yorkers, and lovers of great storytelling.

I'm hosting another edition of Bowery Boys History Live at City Winery on Tuesday, May 26th.

Bowery Boys History Live is a storytelling cabaret for history lovers.

And the theme for this show?

Heated Rivalryans from American History.

Spotlighting the nation's most combative frenemies and jaw-dropping

personal clashes. Alexander Hamilton versus Aaron Burr was only the beginning. I'll be joined on stage

by Carl Raymond from the Gilded Gentleman podcast and special guest Lori Gwen Shapiro, author of the new

Amelia Earhart biography, The Aviator, and The Showman. That's Barry Boy's History Live at City Winery at Pier 57 in Manhattan on May 26th.

Alexander, Aaron, prepare to duel.

Get your tickets at citywinery.com.

In her 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities,

journalist, urban theorist, and activist Jane Jacobs

vividly described the daily life and rituals outside her townhouse

at 555 Hudson Street in the heart of the West Village.

The stretch of Hudson Street where I live is each day the scene of an intricate sidewalk ballet.

I make my first entrance into it a little after eight when I put out the garbage can,

surely a prosaic occupation, but I enjoy my part, my little clang, as the droves of junior

high school students walk by the center of the stage, dropping candy wrappers.

How do they eat so much candy so early in the morning?

While I sweep up the wrappers, I watch the other rituals of mourning.

Mr. Halpert unlocking the laundry's handcart from its mooring to up the rappers, I watched the other rituals of mourning.

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