Every year swimmers attempt 28 miles of open water around NYC during the New York 20 Bridges. In 1926, a 19 year old had already beaten that kind of distance, and broken a record held only by men. Trudy Ederle grew up on the Upper West Side, the daughter of a Manhattan butcher, and she was in the water almost before she could walk. At 5, after a bout of measles, doctors warned her that swimming could damage her hearing further. But she said she was happiest between the waves. In 1925, she attempted the English Channel and was pulled out after nearly nine hours. Her crew was sure she’d collapsed. She hadn’t, but she was disqualified all the same. A year later, on August 6, 1926, she went back in. Rough tides swept her miles off course, turning a 21 mile crossing into a 35 mile swim. 🌊 Fourteen hours and 31 minutes after she started (!), she reached England. Faster than every man who had swum it before her, by nearly two hours. New York gave her a ticker tape parade when she came home. Two million people showed up. President Coolidge called her “America’s best girl.” The warning from childhood turned out to be right. Within a few years of the Channel swim, her hearing was mostly gone. She spent the rest of her career teaching deaf children to swim at a school in Queens. — Want to learn the stories of women you won’t believe you hadn’t heard of? Join our 2-hour walking tour, running every Saturday & Sunday. Comment UNTOLD for upcoming dates.

The New York 20 Bridges swim circles Manhattan every year, 28 miles of open water. In 1926, a 19 year old had already beaten that kind of distance, and broken a record held only by men. Trudy Ederle grew up on the Upper West Side, the daughter of a Manhattan butcher, and she was in the water almost before she could walk. At 5, after a bout of measles, doctors warned her that swimming could damage her hearing further. But she said she was happiest between the waves. In 1925, she attempted the English Channel and was pulled out after nearly nine hours. Her crew was sure she’d collapsed. She hadn’t, but she was disqualified all the same. A year later, on August 6, 1926, she went back in. Rough tides swept her miles off course, turning a 21 mile crossing into a 35 mile swim. 🌊 Fourteen hours and 31 minutes after she started (!), she reached England. Faster than every man who had swum it before her, by nearly two hours. New York gave her a ticker tape parade when she came home. Two million people showed up. President Coolidge called her “America’s best girl.” The warning from childhood turned out to be right. Within a few years of the Channel swim, her hearing was mostly gone. She spent the rest of her career teaching deaf children to swim at a school in Queens. — Want to learn the stories of women you won’t believe you hadn’t heard of? Join our 2-hour walking tour, running every Saturday & Sunday. Comment UNTOLD for upcoming dates.

The best shopping in NYC? Why not go female-owned? The little data there is was hard to compare, but using what we could find, here are the best neighborhoods for female-owned shops and restaurants. What neighborhoods would you rank? #3 @flatironny had the longest list of female-owned businesses out of any official Manhattan BID #2 ~ 2 in 3 participating locations in @shopsmallastoria’s annual crawl show are female-owned #1 With the most comprehensive data, @dumbo_brooklyn showed 62% of small bsuinesses owned by women. __ Want to learn more about women’s impact in NYC? Join our women’s history tour which covers all the women you won’t believe you haven’t heard of. Comment UNTOLD for upcoming dates.

Female-owned local shops in NYC? The data is imperfect (surprise, surprise), but after scraping the internet, we were able to find a few official lists and stats. #3 @flatironny had the longest list of female-owned businesses out of any official Manhattan BID #2 ~ 2 in 3 participating locations in @shopsmallastoria’s annual crawl show are female-owned #3 With the most comprehensive data, @dumbo_brooklyn showed 62% of small bsuinesses owned by women. What neighborhoods would you rank? __ If you like knowing who actually built the city around you, join our women’s history tour covering all the women you won’t believe you haven’t heard of. Comment UNTOLD for upcoming dates.

Things to do in NYC this weekend: walk the tour that can satisfy your inner feminist rage. If the following sentences frustrate you: - She built the organization. He gets remembered as the founder. - She wrote the bestseller. They assumed it was written by a man. - Her face is everywhere. Her name is nowhere. Then you’re in the right place! Join us Saturdays & Sundays for a 2 - hour walking tour that covers the history of women you’ve probably never heard of, but we all should know. — Comment BADASS for upcoming tour dates