Described by residents as its “own small town within the city,” Park Slope is a lively Brooklyn neighborhood, filled with countless historic buildings, top-rated restaurants, and outdoor green spaces. Some key spots to visit today include the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Central Library branch of the Brooklyn Public Library system. Keep reading for an inside peek into one of Brooklyn’s most illustrious neighborhoods.
The Pan American Exposition of 1901 was one of the defining moments of art and culture in Buffalo, bringing recognition to the Queen City.
The Bayport Aerodrome is an active airport for small private planes, just five miles from MacArthur Airport on Long Island.
Ariella Rosen writes how was saddened to discover that an 1866 Croton manhole cover of which she had many memories had been removed.
Here are the many lost amusement parks in New York City, some closing as early as 1899 while others closing only a decade ago.
This summer, check out the brand new climate change-themed mini golf course, Putting Green, located on Williamsburg's Waterfront.
In hot and muggy New York City July 1795, mosquitos took control with their diseased bites that spread Yellow Fever for more than a decade.
In 1997, Irish rock band U2 performed at the Kmart on Astor Place as part of their PopMart Tour in which they poked fun at pop culture.
A small but intense coterie of downtown New Yorkers is pushing for the designation of a new neighborhood, "Little Paris."
In Weehawken, New Jersey at dawn, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr met with their guns drawn for a duel 217 years ago today.