As Columbia University moves into Manhattanville, its industrial past is erased The vernacular architecture of West Harlem is slowly being eroded as part of Columbia University’s long-awaited ...

New York’s subway system is full of wonderful art, but this is all about the intricate pieces that make those murals sing.

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 ...

The rise, fall, and rebirth of the TWA Flight Center mirrors the timeline of the commercial aviation industry at large. In 1956, when TWA, under the ownership of Howard Hughes, commissioned a ...

13 centuries-old NYC military forts you can still visit These historic bunkers have been repurposed into museums, art installations, and more ...

How all of this looks and feels—whether it’s clever or profane—depends on how you feel about the deindustrialization of the waterfront ...

On Staten Island, a massive barrier will rise to protect against climate change New York City’s latest efforts to fight climate change underscore the reality that the city is facing a very ...

The `Great Theater Massacre` of the 1980s led to the destruction of five historic Broadway houses to make way for a hotel—and forever changed Times Square as we know it.

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 ...

See the 19 new projects in various stages of development in the neighborhood right now.

In Yonkers, the ongoing efforts to daylight the Saw Mill River have already radically altered the city’s physical landscape, and more change is still to come. The first major phase of this ...

New York has been called the most haunted city in the world, and with good reason. Every single street is steeped in history, and in the four-hundred-plus years of cycles of expansion, ...