Search Results: 7th New York

200 Years was an Empty Anniversary for New York’s ‘Gallant Seventh’

Flipping through a military journal from early 1956, I stumbled upon a rather depressing note announcing the Seventh Regiment’s plans for celebrating its 150th anniversary. A reunion of old comrades on Thursday May 3, then a grand review the following day, and topped off by a formal ball on the evening of Saturday May 5 […]

67th & Fifth

One of the most remarkable things about these photos from a 1956 Seventh Regiment ceremony are how traditional the buildings in the background are.

The 7th Regiment in Washington Square

Entitled “National Guard – 7th Regiment New York State Militia”, this mid-nineteenth century view shows the famous 7th Regiment of New York, nicknamed the Silk-Stocking Regiment, parading in Washington Square. In the background can be seen the University of the City of New York and the Church of St. Thomas, which has since moved to […]

Harlem Reformed Dutch Church

This Manhattan congregation dates back to 1660. read more

Recent Reads

A takedown of pop Enlightenment, laïcité as fear of Islam, the Irish language, and how we made God speak English. read more

End of the Line for Rizzoli Bookshop

In New York, good things are only allowed to last a little while: eventually they must all be destroyed. The latest to add to the pile is the Rizzolli shop on West 57th. read more

A Lecture by Andrew Cusack

‘Three Annulets Or: the van Riebeeck arms and their South African legacy’ at the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society on 17 September 2013. read more

The Old In & Out

On my way to the Cavalry & Guards yesterday for lunch with an ancient veteran of King’s African Rifles, I was a bit ahead of schedule and so took a gander at Cambridge House. read more

Reviving Manhattan’s Parisian Splendour

“Practically perfect in every way” was how Mary Poppins described herself in the Disney film, but Ralph Lauren has given birth to a grande dame on the Upper East Side that might justifiably make a similar claim. read more

West End Collegiate Church

One of my good friends, who is amongst the most loyal denizens of this little corner of the web, found our post on St. Nicholas Collegiate Church of great interest because his son attended the Collegiate School, the oldest school in North America (founded in 1628, and formally incorporated ten years later). The Collegiate School […]

Remembering the Seventh

It is entirely appropriate that November 11 — Armistice Day — both falls during the month of the Holy Souls and on the feast of St. Martin of Tours. It’s not unlikely that the souls in Purgatory added their voices to plead for peace that November of 1918, and St. Martin, who had himself been […]

High Drama in Argentina’s Halls of Power

IT IS AN age-old question: what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? The force in question is the farming community of Argentina, once among the agricultural powerhouses of the world, and the object is the country’s slippery presidential couple, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her husband (and predecessor in the top […]

Changing the Guard in Buenos Aires

The changing of the guard at Government House, Buenos Aires, the Presidential Palace of the Argentine Republic more popularly known as the ‘Casa Rosada’ due to its pink hue. The Patricios regiment who provide the presidential escort were founded in 1806, making them as old as New York’s 7th Regiment. (Unlike the 7th, however, Los […]

Upcoming Events

Tradition in New York November 1, 2007 (Thursday) The Feast of All Saints Holy Day of Obligation Latin Mass (Extraordinary Form) 7:30 pm Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel 230 East 90th Street (between 2nd & 3rd) November 2, 2007 (Friday) The Commemoration of All Souls & First Friday Latin Mass (Extraordinary Form) 6:30 […]

Hail Glorious Saint Patrick

THE FEAST OF IRELAND’S patron saint is an occasion for parading if ever there was one. For this, we can send part of our thanks to the British Army, which happened to initiate the most famous St. Patrick’s Day Parade of them all, namely, New York’s. It was 1762 when a number of Irish troops […]

A Sienese Gem Lost

STEALING A GLANCE at the photo above, the viewer would easily be forgiven for mistaking the vista for that of a subway entrance in turn-of-the-century Siena, Italy. The proud medieval tower lurks over a comely metal-and-glass structure of continental flavor. However the city fathers of that ancient Italian municipality never deigned to erect an underground […]

Our Walter, Rest in Peace

I was very saddened to hear this morning of the sudden death of our good and loyal friend, Walter Phelan of Brooklyn. Walter was a good man, with a heart of gold, and a brilliant mind. He taught himself the law, and passed the New York bar exams in the years before at least a […]

‘Voltaire’s Castle’ Up For Sale

Wallabout Market

New York’s Wallabout Market was once the second-largest market in the world. From about 1884 onwards, vendors would gather in this district adjacent to Wallabout Bay in Brooklyn and sell their various wares. It was then that the market vendors had been banned from Fulton Street for making too much noise, and so took up […]