The historic structures and buildings that can be climbed in NYC, legally including the Cathedral of the St John the Divine, Empire State Building, High Bridge
Learn about the secrets of St. Patrick's Cathedral, a landmark of Midtown Manhattan NYC. Its Neo-Gothic style makes it a visible destination on Fifth Avenue.
New York City's subway stations are filled with interesting pieces of art, but the stations' oldest pieces were installed decades ago and remain even today
In honor of Memorial Day, we're looking back at the history of the white marble Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, located at 89th Street and Riverside Drive.
City Island Railroad Car, c. 1910. Photo from Library Congress via Wikimedia Commons. Imagine if New Yorkers could commute by high
In July 1927, Popular Science profiled a proposal for a sixteen mile elevated highway that would span the rooftops of a Manhattan avenue in NYC
The Met Museum of Art in NYC remains unfinished to this day. Here are tidbits about where to see these incomplete portions today and how they came to be.
The New York Public Library for Performing Arts has two excellent exhibits on display. Broadway Revealed and Somebody Come and Play: 45 Years of Sesame Street
In 1917, a captured German U-Boat was transported to the United States and displayed in Central Park's Sheep Meadow, rechristened U-Buy-A-Bond
While NYC is more well-known for St. Patrick's Cathedral, a unique subset of religious sites are quite off the beaten path: 5 sites connected with saints