From the Westinghouse Time Capsules to one of the oldest known, these artifacts help us to understand what the city was like in the past.
Discover some of the amazing facts you can learn on an exclusive hard hat tour of the abandoned Ellis Island Hospital!
This lost mid-century resort destination is home to memories of a former respite from city life.
If you’ve been following the debate over NYU’s expansion plans in Greenwich Village, you’d know that the
Zoning is a city planning instrument that few of us know much about or care to pay attention to. But
Our story on the abandoned Hart Island in New York City, the largest tax-funded cemetery in the world, was
In the book Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition, the author reveals that a large portion of the landfill on
Middle Village, Queens is not known for tourist attractions, but if you make it to the Metropolitan Avenue stop on
Yes, you read that correctly. The mayor of New York City in the 1860s, Fernando Wood, supported slavery in the
In Paris, between St. Paul in the Marais and Bastille, is the apartment where Jim Morrison supposedly died in 1971
All photos by Allison Siegel Allison Siegel is the Resident Historian for BoweryBoogie.com, for which she earned the moniker
The building at the northeast corner of Broadway and 46th Street is one of those hidden gems that even most
All photos from the MTA Photos Flickr, for the full album see here. If you thought New York was ruled
Take a guess where we shot this photograph from today? This skyline, which may be reminiscent of London perhaps or
This map series by Bill Rankin tests the “donut” hypothesis: “the idea that a city will create concentric rings of
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