There is a Manhattan in Kansas! It is a city of 55 000 people, and nicknamed itself "the Little Apple" as a play on New York City's moniker of the "Big Apple." It was founded by the New England Emigrant Aid Company as a Free-State town in the 1850s. Eli Thayer started the company to transport anti-slavery immigrants into the Kansas Territory. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was to allow the population of Kansas Territory to choose whether slavery would be legal in the territory. Thayer and his company believed if they move enough anti-slavery immigrants to Kansas, they would be able to shift the balance of political power in the territory, which in turn would lead to Kansas becoming a free state when it eventually joined the United States.  The company wanted to send 20 000 immigrants, a number they didn't get to. In fact it is believed only about 2000 arrived. It did spur pro-slavery people from Missouri to move to Kansas to ensure its admission to the United State...

Jeffrey's Hook Light, aka Little Red Lighthouse is located in Fort Washington Park along the Hudson River in Manhattan, under the George Washington Bridge. It was constructed in 1921. It is a New York City Landmark, and a National Register of Historic Places. It was a working lighthouse from 1920 to 1947, when it was deactivated. It was relit in 2002. 

The sender lives in uptown Manhattan which has a rich and cultured history. Harlem is found in uptown Manhattan and was the centre of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in uptown Manhattan is considered the birthplace of the modern gay-rights movement in 1969. Upper Manhattan. Manhattan is home to almost 1.7 million people and is the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City, with almost 29 000 people per  km 2  .  The sender says their house supports the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (Manhattan is home to the New York Rangers), the San Antonio Spurs (Manhattan is home to the New York Knicks), and New York City Football Club (who will be playing at Etihad Park in Queens, New York, when the stadium is finished). 

Another great photograph, this time of Jefferson Market Court in Manhattan. It was taken by Berenice Abbott (1898-1991). Abbott was an American photographer known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period (1918-1939), New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation of between the 1940s-1960s. This particular photograph is a part of the collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The Jefferson Market Court still stands today, but is now known as the Jefferson Market Branch of the New York City Library. It is found at 425 Avenue of the Americas in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. The building faced demolition in 1958, but public outcry led to its reuse as a branch of the library. It is found on the New York City Landmark Preservation Commission's Greenwich Village History District, the National Reigister of Historic Places (1972), and the National Historic Landmark list (1977). The building is de...

A great card from the Wes Anderson postcard book, Accidentally . I just got this book myself for Christmas (shop local!).  New York, of course, is the 'city that never sleeps.' It is the most populous city in the United States with 8.84 million people, and over 23.5 million in its metropolitan area. There are 3.2 million residents who were born outside of the United States, which makes it the city with the largest foreign born people of any city in the world. There are over 800 languages spoken in New York City.  New York was named in honour of the Duke of York, who would later became King James II. The area was formerly known as New Amsterdam as it was controlled by the Dutch. New York City is divided up into five boroughs - Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island. This set up reminds me of a country that is divided up into provinces or states. There are certain responsibilities that the City of New York handles, while the boroughs are responsible for m...

New York City is the largest city by population in the United States with 8.8 million people. It also holds the most densely populated city with 11 313.81/square km. It is also the centre of the Northeast Megalopolis with 52.3 million people.  New York has one of the largest natural harbours in the world. There are five boroughs that make up New York City - Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island.  Tourism is a major part of the economy of New York with 66.6 million tourists visiting in 2019. Times Square is one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections and the heart of the Broadway Theatre District. Three of the world's ten most visited tourist attractions are in New York City. 

The sender must have visited New York City and picked up this card from Times Square. Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and neighbourhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It is the junction of Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 42nd Street. It is brightly lit all the time by billboards and advertisements as well as businesses that are open 24 hours a day. The Broadway Theatre District is also located here. It draws about 50 million tourists a year.  It was once known as Longacre Square, but was renamed in 1904 when the New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building, now One Times Square. This is the site of the famous New Year's Eve ball drop which attracts a million people a year.  Between the 1960s and early 1990s, Times Square was not a great place to be. High crime as well as go-go bars, sex shops, peep shows, and adult theatres were infamous symbols of the city's decline.  Today it is es...