If you buy something from a Curbed link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics policy. Part of The beginner’s guide to New York City There are hundreds, if not thousands, of books about New ...

One sunny afternoon about a year ago, I rendezvoused with two old friends for a beer. Each of us arrived on a CitiBike from our respective neighborhoods. We convened at a newly opened outdoor ...

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The Bowery is one of the great highways of humanity, a highway of seething life, of varied interest, of fun, of work, of sordid and terrible tragedy; and it is haunted by demons as evil as any that ...

Over the last decade, the landscape of New York City has seen an unprecedented amount of change. Luxury towers and megaprojects rose across the city, and miles of previously off-limits coastline were ...

Despite their historic significance, the aging casitas of the South Bronx face an uncertain future. All photos by Nathan Kensinger. The last crops of a bountiful summer are now being collected in the ...

In 1943, four major newspapers published an extensive analysis of the market (recently digitized by CUNY's Center for Urban Research), which shows that while $50 may have been the average, there were ...

It is not often that Yonkers can claim to be more innovative than New York City, but in its gritty downtown corridor, a unique project unlike anything in the five boroughs is currently unfolding.

On a sunny afternoon in the middle of May, Eero Saarinen’s soaring Jet Age terminal at JFK Airport is as bustling as it was when it first opened in 1962. Models and dancers dressed in vintage TWA ...

The Brooklyn Navy Yard released a new master plan that includes 5.1 million square feet of new development Courtesy BNYDC and WXY Fifty years ago, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was launching ships; today, it ...

On May 18, 1976, a tourist named W.J. Schaap, of St. Louis, Missouri, settled his bill at the front desk of the Hotel Commodore and became the final guest to leave the premises. The hotel, a fading ...

New Yorkers' real estate prayers are regularly answered (sorry) with the conversion of churches, synagogues, and other religious buildings into co-ops and condos. Interesting history, arched windows, ...