You're familiar with the famous historic districts in Manhattan: Greenwich Village, Chelsea...But did you know some historic districts are less than one block?
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.
Overlaying an 1836 topographical New York City map and a current day Google satellite map, The Smithsonian has created a wonderful interactive then and now map
WTC Memorials and Artifacts around NYCwhere visitors can pay their respects, Battery Park, FDNY Memorial Wall, Tribute in Light, Trinity Root, Survivor Tree
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.
In 1868, Conrad Poppenhusen moved his company to College Point. His intension was to create a 'worker's paradise', building roads and housing for his employees, and a building that would act at the center of town life that still stands today.
Highlights from the pop-up shipping container market at Pier 57, a preview for SuperPier, a $200 million food and retail complex opening in 2015.
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.
Pier 17 Mall at South Street Seaport is now closed and will later be demolished. A look at the new plans by SHoP Architects and Howard Hughes Corporation.