The Big Apple” refers to New York City, but the nickname stems from a popular 1930’s jazz dance, born at the “Big Apple” club ...

This is true in his firm’s many public and academic buildings. Mr. Stern knew the essence of what a university should feel ...

When theater and movie producers in the1920s and early 1930s needed actors and actresses to learn modern dance, they often ...

After learning photography in Paris, Berenice Abbott began documenting New York City in the early 1930s, tracking changes in its boroughs as part of an effort that would become "Changing New York." ...

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But one museum is dedicated to remembering the stories of this street and its people. The Tenement Museum, located inside a real New York City tenement, documents life here from the 1860s to the 1930s ...

The photography of an early master of photography is collected in a comprehensive two-volume edition,Berenice Abbott by Berenice Abbott, published by Steidl. Contact us at [email protected] ...

Since 1934, the train station St. John’s Terminal helped shape New York City as we recognize it today. Presently situated at the end of the High Line, which was then an operational elevated freight ...

New York City’s modern-day subway system earns its fair share of complaints on a daily basis. That being said, the Big Apple’s favorite transportation-centric archive has figured out a way to dispel ...

Pay attention to the preface of “The Bishop and the Butterfly,” since it reveals to whom the title refers, but those nicknames barely recur in the rest of the book. I had a handle on “Butterfly,” even ...