Hart Island is NYCs mass burial ground or potters field, home to over 1 million. Here are the secrets of this island in Long Island Sound off the Bronx.
On her 100th birthday of Jane Jacobs, we look at the apartments she lived in while she was a resident of NYC from 1934 to 1968 in Greenwich Village and Brooklyn
Yiddish newspapers were once material documents of life on NYC's Lower East Side. They were guidebooks to old-world communities and to new-world assimilation.
Take a look at 10 corporate lobbies in NYC that display a wide variety of wonderful and unique pieces of art to liven up the dreary, impersonal atmosphere.
As the US expanded west, some of its citizens called for removal of the capital out of Washington DC. The most popular city to host the capital? St. Louis, MO.
The NYC sites depicted in PBS Murder of a President associated with James Garfield's Presidency, though he has few formal memorials or dedications in the city.
The history of record breaking real estate deals in NYC include buildings and parcels of land purchased for over $1 billion and up to $5.45 billion.
Twenty permanent art installations situated along the southern tip of Manhattan from The Battery, through Battery City Park, to Nelson A. Rockefeller Park.
See the unorthodox spaces in which NYC artists have for decades been reclaiming and occupying to share their work and give others the chance to express themselves beyond the official institutional walls of museums.
New York City is known for record breaking real estate deals, so it can be easy to forget that there's also a tradition of selling property for $1 dollar.