Commissioned by Joseph Pulitzer and designed by George B. Post in the Renaissance Revival style, the New York World Building—also known as the Pulitzer Building—was completed in 1890.

A six-alarm fire broke out early Saturday morning in New York City, destroying several buildings, ... door that has stood side-by-side with Middle Collegiate Church since it was built in the 1800s.

When New York’s Equitable Life Building opened in 1870, the businessman behind the project, Henry Baldwin Hyde, was berated for having delusions of grandeur. ... In the late 1800s, ...

New York City building records do not show any work under way at either address, but one, owned by the Spanish Christian Church, had obtained permits and installed 120 feet of gas pipe last June.

There’s collateral damage from New York’s construction boom. Making room for all those new buildings means tearing down many old ones. It’s a radical transformation of the cityscape: The ...

Each year, some 1,000 buildings in New York City constructed with old-growth wood are demolished or gutted and renovated. The average quantity of wood per building is estimated to be 14 cubic meters.

^Map of proposed route for Erie Railroad, 1832. The Erie Railway originally travelled between New York City and Buffalo, eventually expanding west.