Architect Lewis A. Coffin reminisces about growing up as a young boy at the end of the horse era in New York City.
On this day in 1965, Civil Rights leader Malcolm X was assassinated while giving a speech in the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
A new exhibit at the New-York Historical Society analyzes Frederick Douglass' powerful "Our Composite Nation" speech.
The filming locations for The Gilded Age, a new period drama on HBO from Julian Fellowes in New York City, Troy, Newport, and the Hudson Valley.
Cast iron architecture was the forerunner of the skyscraper, presaging innovations such as curtain wall construction and repeating bays.
New York City department store B. Altman and Co. was once the grandest store on 5th Avenue. Now its lost to the ages except for the memories.
A new digital exhibit by the Gotham Center showcases Gilded Age photographs of Staten Island by Alice Austen.
At Third and Brook avenues in The Bronx sits a marble sculpture, an allegorical representation of “Lady Justice,” on the facade of the Bronx Borough Courthouse.
Discover the stunning and often hidden architecture of one of New York City's most under appreciated engineers in our virtual talk: Guastavino's New York.
From the neighborhood's past as the city's red-light district to an extremely valuable piece of real estate filled with 280,000 pounds of dirt, here are nine of the most fascinating secrets of SoHo.