Here is our guide to the Native American heritage sites across the city, including neighborhoods where Native Americans once lived.
A new digital exhibit by the Gotham Center showcases Gilded Age photographs of Staten Island by Alice Austen.
One of Staten Island’s biggest secrets is that approximately 300,000 tons of good-quality iron ore were mined in the 1830s through 1880s.
Hannah van Hemmen works in Port Newark, where she manages the environmental programs and coordinates maintenance dredging.
Learn more about the two dozen Vanderbilt homes in New York that once pulled in the most affluent and famous of guests.
Since completed in 1636, Fort Wadsworth has hosted military employees. Some claim some of these employees linger on the property as ghosts.
The New Brighton tenement collapse killed 19 on August 11, 1937. An intense storm caused the collapse and a flood washed away debris.
Here are the many lost amusement parks in New York City, some closing as early as 1899 while others closing only a decade ago.
In hot and muggy New York City July 1795, mosquitos took control with their diseased bites that spread Yellow Fever for more than a decade.
Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal (commonly referred to as “Port Newark” or “Port Elizabeth”) is a staple in the international shipping community, serving as a major component of the Port of New York and New Jersey.