I’m a big New York City history buff, but my favorite kind of local history usually involves the stories that don’t get memorialized on historical markers. As Dorothy once quipped, “People come and go so quickly here.”
A two-floor dance club complete with onstage showers for the dancers, now a real estate office. An after-hours sex club, now a high-priced brunch spot. An antebellum underground vault where Walt Whitman cross-dressed, now collapsed. A piano bar turned Zagat-rated restaurant.