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 ...

See 10 of the historic New York City buildings and cultural institutions lost to demolition in the past decade.

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 ...

A long-neglected Queens neighborhood grapples with the effects of climate change in NYC In Edgemere, residents must face the reality of how climate change will reshape the community ...

Every time it rains in New York, millions of gallons of sewage-laced stormwater flows into the city’s waterways. Instead of being diverted to a wastewater treatment plant, what goes down your ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...