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 ...

With Baz Luhrmann's remake of seminal novel The Great Gatsby out tomorrow (trailer!), everyone's gone mad for the 1920s all over again. Lavish theme parties, mood music, flapper-esque costumes from ...

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 ...

The winding history of Donald Trump’s first major Manhattan real estate project The Commodore Hotel was a key remnant of Midtown’s Terminal City ...

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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 ...

The history of the lot that the Elizabeth Street Garden sits on is a long one. Originally home to a public school that was torn down in the 1970s, the land, between Elizabeth and Mott streets, was ...

11 glorious estates of the Hudson Valley, mapped These perfectly preserved historic homes once housed financiers, oil tycoons, and U.S. presidents ...

With the average Manhattan rent hovering around $3,800, it can seem impossible that there was a time when one could find a whole apartment for $500 to $600 a month, let alone something in the ...

The city’s billion dollar plan to make the East River waterfront more resilient has a neighborhood up in arms.

Shirley Chisholm State Park is now open in Brooklyn on a site that was once occupied by two toxic landfills.

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 ...