A new Brooklynite dives deep into his local roots, unveiling a vaunted family history nine generations old. Though getting settled in New York City...
But whether you thought it was a threat or a promise, a riot or a revolution, there was never any doubt: the Armory Show had changed the culture of America, and the life of America's greatest city
At 86, the past is very much with me now. And so is the future. I look back with nostalgia. I look forward with excitement. 120 years of unbroken caring between a settlement house and our family!
I fell in love with Manhattan over thirty years ago and it is a love affair that has never waned. It is clear that photographer Evan Joseph knows this great love and shares this passion.
Old places generally accumulate their share of ghost tales, and New York is certainly old indeed -- over 400 years old. But that's not the only reason the Big Apple is so frightfully haunted.
Fans of New York City's rich past have seen three of its most tumultuous decades represented in television series this year. And each show is bringing a different approach to filling out the historical contours of this ever-changing metropolis.
Eighty years ago, on Oct. 2, 1932, the New York Herald Tribune published the now iconic photograph of 11 ironworkers, casually dangling their feet hundreds of feet above 5th Avenue while breaking for lunch.
A new exhibition opening at the Museum of the City of New York is hoping to illuminate the unique history of Staten Island, New York's oft-forgotten b...
The New York City subway averages 26 suicides a year and claims around 200 victims total. Is it any wonder that we're all slightly more sketched out w...
In the 1940s, every New York subway station had a tribute to the month's Miss Subway, a contest for glamorous young female writers. Each poster had an...
In More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy, many will find parallels to the current social crises, from the upheavals of Occupy Wall Street to the manipulations of the super rich.
During the Ellis Island era, millions of immigrants arrived in the United States. Our Lady of the Rosary and the accompanying Watson House provided greetings and safe haven for more than 100,000 young Irish girls who came to NY.
Hoping to spruce up your digs with some one-of-a-kind items? Look no further than the MTA to add a bit of retro stylings with the agency's Memorabilia...
The size of the prison system in the United States is horrific. Equally horrific are its rapid growth and the direct and indirect costs.
The new Apple store in Grand Central Terminal is cultural memory writ large, resulting in a renewal of artistic appreciation for a place at risk of being taken for granted.
ALBANY, N.Y. — The fire started in the Assembly Library and quickly spread down the hall to the nearby New York State Library, finding plenty of...
Steven Carl Smith is working on a dissertation about New York City in the 19th century, with a focus on the publishing industry and how it developed.
Oh, those 1916 New Yorkers and their crazy ideas! Like Dr. T. Kennard Thomson, an engineer and city planner who dreamed up the above map of a New York...
In New York, where concrete ratchets temperatures from hot to hellish, refuge can only be found inside air-conditioned interiors. But how did New Yorkers deal with the heat in the days before A/C?
At the heart of downtown Flushing, Queens, an architectural masterpiece, the RKO Keith's Theatre, awaits a day when it will once again be a cultural beacon and its beauty will shine forth anew.
Nearly every location in my new film subject has been demolished or completely renovated since the movie was made over 30 years ago.
In honor of Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage across the Atlantic, the Museum of the City of New York came up with a list of 400 notable and legendary New Yo...
Bring back the old exchanges -- and let's invent some new ones while we're at it. Let's name them after NY writers. GInsberg for the East Village. And WH for the West Village (after Auden).
Hamilton arrived in 1773 and began his stunning ascent in a whirlwind, epic tale of crisis and opportunity, from unclaimed son to Founding Father. Doesn't New York set the greatest stage for this kind of story?
I bet few New Yorkers know about the role that the hideous institution of slavery played in shaping the city physically, financially and socially.
