As a walking tour guide and historian, I’ve discovered that an often-overlooked source for understanding New York City is old guidebooks. Whether it’s something as mundane as addresses of railway ...

One sunny afternoon about a year ago, I rendezvoused with two old friends for a beer. Each of us arrived on a CitiBike from our respective neighborhoods. We convened at a newly opened outdoor ...

Starchitecture is alive and well in New York City, with many skyline-altering developments coming from big-name, award-winning architects. And since we last surveyed the starchitecture landscape in ...

The intricacies of New York City’s zoning laws tend to make even the wonkiest of city wonks’ eyes glaze over, but it’s almost impossible to overstate the importance of those byzantine rules and the ...

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When most people think of urban farming in New York City, they picture a bearded Brooklynite picking kale from atop a warehouse while drinking a home-brewed beer. And while that person does exist, ...

The New York City housing market could not look more different today than it did at the beginning of the 2010s. The financial crisis in 2008 didn’t hit New York housing as hard as it did in other ...

James Nevius is the author of three books about New York City, the most recent of which is Footprints in New York: Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers. New York has undergone such a ...

On a sunny afternoon in the middle of May, Eero Saarinen’s soaring Jet Age terminal at JFK Airport is as bustling as it was when it first opened in 1962. Models and dancers dressed in vintage TWA ...

Out on the east coast of Staten Island, one of New York City’s first major responses to the existential threat of climate change may soon break ground. This March, the last bit of bureaucratic red ...

Part of The beginner’s guide to New York City Thinking about moving to New York City? The first thing you should know is that it’s a city of extremes. Geographically, New York isn’t huge, but more ...

Lower Manhattan is filled with odd streets, from the obscure intersection of Jay and Staple (where you can own your own skybridge!), to Mill Lane and Edgar Street, which duke it out to be the city's ...