A new bill allowing the Hudson River Park piers to sell their air rights opens a debate about whether temporary structures can sell their air rights.
Famed NYC food truck Wafels & Dinges opens its first sit-down location in the East Village, but not before taking a six-year detour throughout the city.
The New-York Historical Society's "The Civil War in 50 Objects" exhibit illuminates a war that changed the course of American history--using only 50 objects.
A proposed bridge to span the Hudson River would have been taller than the Woolworth Building and twice as long as the George Washington Bridge.
CHEKPED's interactive map allows users to identify misplaced phone booths in Hell's Kitchen. The open-source platform reflects a new way of collaborative, crowdsourced urban planning.
There were two Jones Streets in NYC before one man one-upped the other and called his "Great Jones." Great Jones later became a site of gangster battles and drug overdoses.
We take a look at notorious New York City crime scenes, from heists that have inspired movies to a deadly terrorist attack in 1920 whose traces still remain.
Mobile bookstores and libraries are growing increasingly common and adding untraditional spins to the traditional bookmobile.
A look at where the horse carriages, food carts, pedicabs food trucks, trains and buses go in NYC when they're not on duty.
There's more to NYC's iconic water towers than their decorative and symbolic aspect. They're actually ingenious pieces of technology, too.