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 ...
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 ...
Admiral's Row, a strip of historic residences in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, is now scheduled to be demolished and replaced with a Wegmans grocery store. All photos by Nathan Kensinger. Welcome back to ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Church of the Holy Communion on the corner of 20th Street and Sixth Avenue is one of the most peculiar structures in New York City. The soaring Gothic Revival building, originally used as an ...
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 ...
Down on the waterfront of Sunset Park, billions of dollars in public and private investment have slowly reshaped one of Brooklyn’s last industrial strongholds. Over the past decade, warehouses have ...
On May 18, 1976, a tourist named W.J. Schaap, of St. Louis, Missouri, settled his bill at the front desk of the Hotel Commodore and became the final guest to leave the premises. The hotel, a fading ...
Grand Central Terminal is one of NYC’s most popular tourist destinations—21.6 million visitors pass through its doors each year—but it’s also a major commuter hub, with 44 platforms spread out over 48 ...
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.
New Yorkers' real estate prayers are regularly answered (sorry) with the conversion of churches, synagogues, and other religious buildings into co-ops and condos. Interesting history, arched windows, ...
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