We've only seen this in one place in NYC in all our explorations – in-ground garbage cans to hide household waste found on the Astoria/East Elmhurst waterfront.
A new book by Christopher Payne, Making Steinway: An American Workplace shows the inner workings and skilled workers of the piano factory in Astoria, Queens.
Read about the history and locales of some of the lesser-known ethnic micro-neighborhoods that help make NYC the melting pot it is today in all five boroughs.
The New York Pizza Project is now a coffee table book and to celebrate we asked Ian Manheimer to share the 10 pizza joints in NYC with the biggest personality.
Billed as the “first ukulele store in New York,” Uke Hut is also the only ukulele specialty store in NYC, located on a nondescript block of Astoria, Queens.
'How Cats Took Over the Internet,' now at the Museum of the Moving Image, follows the evolution of cat memes on the internet and their strange place in society
The Rival to Hollywood: Inside the Expanding Kaufman Astoria Studios, the Only Studio Backlot in NYC
Plans to expand NYC's only studio backlot at Kaufman Astoria Studios even further by 2016 may make the city the capital of film production.
Looking at Cornell NYC Tech, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and Hallets Point, Queens in terms of waterfront design principles in light of climate change.
Steinway Street in Astoria, Queens ran through the center of Steinway Village–a company town for the employees of piano maker Steinway & Sons.
5 graffiti hotspots in NYC to take in street art in addition to 5Pointz including Welling Court, East Harlem Graffiti Hall of Fame, Hunts Point Murals, Williamsburg