Harmen van den Bogaert was the first death due to sexual preference in Dutch New Amsterdam and his harrowing escape and capture was recorded in a journal.
On September 24-25, Pope Francis will make his first visit to NYC on his first trip to the United States. Here are 9 ways to catch a glimpse of the pope.
For 22 years, photographer Dave Frieder has been documenting NYC's bridges using film from foot tingling perspectives up top. Now he's ready to publish a book.
20 of the best independent bookstores in NYC to explore that have a particular specialty from cooking, to mystery, to comics to drama, to the revolution.
From the teak decks of Classic Harbor Lines' new Manhattan II 1920s-inspired yacht take an architectural tour spin from Chelsea Piers to Brooklyn Bridge in NYC.
Back it the early days of NYC, Manhattan was narrower, swampy and full of things called slips, narrow slivers of harbor for boats, as seen in this map from 1856
On the facade of the New Museum, you may have noticed a floating wooden sailboat. Here's why it's there–as an art piece by Chris Burden in Extreme Measures.
New York City's subway stations are filled with interesting pieces of art, but the stations' oldest pieces were installed decades ago and remain even today
These pre-war NYC apartment house gems are architecturally impressive and historically important. Like the South Bronx, they survived and now face better days.
Manhattan's Trinity Church was once the tallest building in the city. While dwarfed by skyscrapers today, it still holds an important place in New York history.