When a Cold War nuclear bomb shelter was discovered in the Brooklyn Bridge in 2006, it had a stockpile inside that had lain untouched for fifty years.
Get yourself downtown tomorrow night because the Tribute in Light begins at sunset on 9/11, ending at sunrise on 9/12.
At 767 Third Avenue in Midtown NYC is the world's largest chessboard affixed to the wall of a building stretching three floors. Pieces are moved once a week.
On Beach Channel Drive in the Rockaways sits an abandoned municipal court house being taken over by the elements. It's been closed longer than it was ever open.
Wonderful photographs by Weegee of families sleeping on fire escapes in New York CIty in 1938 to escape the heat of their tenements.
Reader-submitted find of a bike vending machine in Williamsburg, Brooklyn that's awesomely DIY. Air is free!
You'd think a building on 5th Avenue across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art wouldn't be so brash as to put up a fake facade. But apparently it's on purpose.
Van Alen Institute has chosen finalists in the Ground/Work design competition for its ground floor space, repurposing it into a flexible, welcoming venue.
A roundup of vintage photos and a watercolor of the interior of the original Pennsylvania Station in New York City, by McKim, Mead & White.
Intergate.Manhattan is a retrofit of the Verizon building downtown and is the largest high-rise data center in the world, with over 1 million square feet of space.