Audubon Advocate Afterschool Science Outdoor Program aims to ignite interest in science career for fifth-graders at Title I ...

Four families, with a longing to escape the demands of the modern world, head back over a hundred years to the turn of the 20th century. In this major new series, The 1900 Island, they are living for ...

In 1903 Dr. Martin Couney—who may not have actually been a trained medical doctor—brought neonatal incubators to Coney Island. The use of incubators had not yet gained widespread acceptance by ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Back in the 1800s, when ambitious New York-based painters went looking for dramatic landscapes, they found them a ferry-ride away, on Staten Island. At the time, the Island’s ...

The Defender, an early submarine rejected by the U.S. Navy, wasn't exactly an A-list object of desire for global shipwreck hunters, but it was for Richard Simon. Simon, 35, grew up diving along the ...

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