As a walking tour guide and historian, I’ve discovered that an often-overlooked source for understanding New York City is old guidebooks. Whether it’s something as mundane as addresses of railway ...

The interior of the Yale Club. Photo by the Wurts Brothers, courtesy of the New York Public Library. Modern private social clubs (which are usually seen as distinct from fraternal organizations such ...

It wasn’t all that long ago that transportation in New York City meant horses. Coaches, carriages, trolleys, omnibuses—all were dependent on teams of working animals. And this, of course, meant that ...

After 70 years of promises, Brooklyn’s newest waterfront park is finally open for visitors. The first section of Shirley Chisholm State Park recently made its official debut on a site that was ...

New York City’s museums aren’t the only places to find beautiful or thought-provoking art. Since 1967, when the first public art program was established in the city, a diverse array of agencies and ...

Tucked away from the hustle and bustle of Times Square and nearly hidden from view from most tourists, you’ll find the Blue Store & DVD, a sex shop located in the shadow of the 52-story New York Times ...

Every time it rains in New York, millions of gallons of sewage-laced stormwater flows into the city’s waterways. Instead of being diverted to a wastewater treatment plant, what goes down your toilet ...

In 1943, four major newspapers published an extensive analysis of the market (recently digitized by CUNY's Center for Urban Research), which shows that while $50 may have been the average, there were ...

It took Amazon nearly a year to select the two cities that would house its second, split-up North American headquarters, and only three months for one of those deals—with New York City—to fall apart.

Entering SHoP's new office in the Woolworth Building. All photos by Will Femia. Growing, forward-looking architecture firm moves into iconic New York City skyscraper: the symbolism is obvious. But as ...

By Hana R. Alberts Mar 9, 2015, 2:35pm EDT ...

New York City is no stranger to creepy abandoned buildings, but the spookiest among them might be the hospitals, asylums, and other medical centers that have long since been left in the shadows. In ...