MONDAY, JUNE 17:Â Bryant Park’s Summer Film Festival launches today with Tootsie. In one of the funniest films of all time,
New York is the ultimate city of water. With its 578 miles  of shoreline, its tidal rivers and straits, bays,
Untapped finds the story behind a wonderful mural, Mighty Cloud of Witnesses, located inside Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church of Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
While Sandy put the G train out of commission, I decided to follow it aboveground and untap this oft-blighted line.
Our curated NYC events picks for this week: New York Diaries, DVD Dead Drop opening party, a sandcastle competition in the Rockaways and Magic Trick, a love story with burlesque.
Part II of Benjamin Waldman's walk around the island of Manhattan: The East River, in photographs.
No, you won’t have a three-day weekend this Fourth of July. But you can still celebrate the patriotic spirit of our forefathers with some all-American festivities taking place during the week.
A lion, chutes, and mazes--oh my! Discover the amusement park that once was in The Haight.
Nestled between the new W Hotel and an abandoned lot a few blocks south of the World Trade Center, a Neo-gothic building at 103 Greenwich Street has a history as incongruous as its architecture. Now an Irish pub, the building began as the home of Dutch immigrant Ryneer Suydam and his family in 1799.
Today’s post is about prisons, something that the average city dweller doesn’t think about. But what is fascinating is that many of New York’s prisons are right in our midst — we walk and drive by them without noticing.