If you lived in a crowded apartment of tenement, the heat of the summer could be insufferable and, sometimes, dangerous. In the early 20th century, thousands of New Yorkers slept on the ground in Central Park (except when it was banned), drug blankets onto rooftops, or curled up on fire escapes. https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/how-nyers-endured-unbearable-summers-before-ac Rockaway Beach stretches … Continue reading Tenting On the Beach – Rockaway Beach, NY (1907)