New York City is home to more than 1,700 parks covering approximately 29,000 acres of land. The first park, Bowling Green Park, was established in 1733 on what had been a parade ground and marketplace. It was leased to three prominent citizens whose surnames live on in downtown Manhattan: Peter...

Summer brings an overflow of produce to the city's farmers markets. The markets as we know them were started in a parking lot on 59th Street in 1976 by GrowNYC and evolved into more than sixty markets, from the grand affair at Union Square to markets in Jackson Heights, Brownsville,...

The Museum of the City of New York celebrates and interprets the city, educating the public about its distinctive character, especially its heritage of diversity, opportunity, and perpetual transformation.

The Museum is currently in the midst of a multi-year project to digitize its photographic and works-on-paper collections and has...

In 1913, railroad tycoon and tourism entrepreneur Louis W. Hill brought a group of 10 members of the Blackfoot Confederacy to New York City from their reservation on the border of Glacier National Park in Montana.

Hill was the founder of the Great Northern Railway, the northernmost transcontinental railroad...

The first half of the 20th century was filled with changes for women in the United States, not the least of which was the right to vote, granted by a constitutional amendment in 1920.

The rise of manufacturing created factories and industries that provided new jobs for women, and...

The Museum of the City of New York, located at the top of Museum Mile on Fifth Avenue in New York City, presents lively exhibitions and public programs that explore and interpret the city's past, and celebrate New York's heritage of diversity, opportunity, and perpetual transformation.

Among its vast holdings,...