Founded in 1904, The Hispanic Society of America contains the largest collection of 19th century Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain and is free to visit.
Vintage photos of the Apollo Theater in Harlem, whose stage has been graced by everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Billie Holiday, turns 80 years old this Sunday.
If you have ever traveled from one end of 125th St to the other, it would be hard to miss the brightly painted gates depicting life in Harlem. The Artist - Franco the Great.
A lesser-known attack on Martin Luther King, Jr. occurred in 1958 on 125th Street in Harlem at a book signing where he was stabbed in the chest.
Confused about zoning in NYC? The Center for Urban Pedagogy's “What is Zoning?” toolkit and guidebook sheds light on the zoning process for its constituents.
A plaque on the Mathematics building at Columbia commemorates the battle of Harlem Heights fought in 1776 with George Washington in modern Morningside Heights
A playground in East Harlem is famous for its less-than-legally installed antidrug mural by Keith Haring, reading "Crack is Wack."
We got a tip in the Untapped Mailbag about a "staircase that leads to nowhere" in Riverside Park so we went to check it out.
The Cotton Club might be Harlem's most famous surviving jazz venue, but it was also the neighborhood's most notorious especially after WWI.
Up on 134th Street and Riverside Drive is a curious building, reminiscent of a Greek temple, which houses a Manhattan Mini Storage.