While nailing 19th century conventions and language are critical to replicating life in 1860s New York City, the new BBC America crime drama COPPER has another edge: Clothes painstakingly hand-tailored and sewn from only fabrics available at the time. Costume designer Delphine White led the design and production of “600 dresses, frock coats and union suits” for the show. But it’s not all meticulous reproduction and corsets—find out what Mick Jagger and Robert Mapplethorpe…

Ever wonder what this website would look like if it were written in the 1860s? Well, first of all, it’d probably only be a weekly, and when we complained about the cost of mass transit, we’d be talking pennies a ride! Anyway, back then, more than 814,000 people were living in New York City’s Manhattan, many in the slums of Five Points, with communities starting to emerge in the wilderness above 42nd Street. Click…

Known for groundbreaking television like Homicide: Life On The Streets and OZ, acclaimed writer-producer Tom Fontana has, with Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson, now developed a crime show about his own hometown, New York City. Of course, Fontana’s and Levinson’s approach in BBC America’s COPPER is to look at the Big Apple in the real bad old days—the 1860s, when it was a given that crooks ran wild and the government was corrupt—how things change….