An antislavery spy who worked for the British in New York in the 1800s lived in a house that is now home to an allergy doctor descended from Horace Greeley.

Next City reports on the New York Hall of Science's exhibit, CityWorks, which educates residents on urban infrastructure and ...

A road trip is one of the best ways to see some of the most notable attractions and landmarks the United States has to offer. With long highways and many small towns to drive through, it’s quite a ...

Dubbed "California's Oldest Little City" and "The New York of the Pacific," this Gold Rush city has a historic Chinatown, unique festival, and vintage shopping.

But it's far from the only lighthouse in Rhode Island. While Michigan has the most lighthouses in the United States, with ...

How the LGBTQ+ community in a stretch of western Manhattan is approaching space making, political power, and queer joy in ...

Brent Buck Architects has pulled off one of the first mass timber buildings in the five boroughs. Frame 122, a Clinton Hill apartment building takes advantage of a 2022 update to the New York City ...

An architect, he wrote in his book “Lost New York” about the many buildings that were destroyed before passage of the city’s landmarks preservation law.

Stars on the sides of houses are not uncommon, but it also depends on the type of star. Seeing a solitary star, for instance, ...

London researchers recently reconstructed large Roman plaster collection, revealing vibrant frescoes hidden for 1,800 years ...

Standing at the top of the Empire State Building in the late December chill, Berenice Abbott knew she only had one chance. The photograph she planned to take required a 15-minute exposure, and this ...

Anthony Comstock would stop at nothing to rid the world of explicit photos, birth control, and anything else he deemed a threat to morals.