The 1.4-mile-long Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk also begins here, next to the sandy berm. The entire boardwalk will be dismantled and replaced with a 2.5-mile-long section of buried seawall and ...

New York has been called the most haunted city in the world, and with good reason. Every single street is steeped in history, and in the four-hundred-plus years of cycles of expansion, ...

If Manhattanville’s landscape is already a pale reflection of its past, then during the next phase of construction, it will lose even more of its colorful history. As the campus extends to the ...

Take, for example, Hunter’s Point South. Once home to gasworks and other heavy industry, it was first targeted for redevelopment in 1983 by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the ...

One of the U.S.’s most stunning examples of Gothic Revival mansions, Lyndhurst is located on a bluff overlooking the Hudson River. Since its construction in 1838, the estate has been home to ...

What is ULURP, and why should I care? NYC’s land-use review process, explained ...

Two things have remained constant about the "Law & Order" universe in its nearly 30-year run: the legendary "dun dun" sound and New York City as a character in the show.

Though it is only partially complete, Shirley Chisholm State Park can already lay claim to the title of “New York City’s nicest park built on top of a toxic waste dump.” That title ...

Grand Central Terminal: The basics Metro-North Railroad operates its Harlem, Hudson, and New Haven Lines from the station. The NYC subway’s 4, 5, 6 and 7 lines also serve the station, and a ...

As a result, the new section of Hunter’s Point South Park feels unmoored from its past, as though its architects took a busy canvas and whitewashed it, creating a new artwork using only the ...

In December 1894, the vestry and clergy of Trinity Wall Street—New York’s oldest, wealthiest, and trendiest Episcopal church—should have been deep into their celebrations of Advent, a time ...

It’s official: Tenants of rent-regulated apartments across New York state will soon benefit from new protections thanks to the passage of a landmark bill reforming the state’s rent laws—one ...