Arts & Culture
Discover the latest public Art installations in NYC, exiting new exhibitions, and more! Pictured here are our partners at Artechouse, a space for innovative experiential Art located in the former boiler room of the Chelsea Market!
Fun Maps: What the NYC Subway System Would Look like in a 40 inch Snowstorm
The team at WNYC put together a fun map of what the subway system in New York City might look
Today in NYC History: Residents of New Amsterdam Win Recognition from the Dutch Government in 1653
New Yorkers have been agitators and disrupters from the start, even back when New Amsterdam was just a small settlement
Last Week to View Walks of Life by Tony Cragg at Madison Square Park
The Madison Square Park Conservancy is in the last week of their current installation Walks of Life by artist Tony
Inside NYC’s Oldest Family Owned Luncheonette, Lexington Candy Shop Celebrates 90th Anniversary
Stepping across the threshold into The Lexington Candy Shop Luncheonette is truly like stepping onto a 1940s movie set and
Today in NYC History: Lawyers Fight Back Against Tammany, Create the Bar of the City of NY in 1870
Introducing a column by Janos Marton of janos.nyc, writer, urban enthusiast, and political expert, a former counsel to the
Daily What?! The Curious Door to Nowhere in NYC’s Penn Station
Penn Station, even the current incarnation, is full of fun secrets–the subject of our upcoming tour on the Remnants
The Art of Style by Kit Mills 065: Stockholm Style
It’s too blizzardy in New York for fashion right now. Luckily, I was in Stockholm last week eating a
Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn: 5 Places Linked to its Native Son and Poet
Image by Thomas Johnson from Brooklyn Museum in Wikimedia Commons Walt Whitman is one of America’s literary giants. The
Snow Monsters, an Art Installation by Peter Regli Arrives to Flatiron Amidst the Blizzard
As if on cue, The Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership and the New York City Department of Transportation Art Program presents
5 Great Hat Shops in Harlem: The Hat as Wearable Art and Tradition
Visit Harlem on any given Sunday morning and you’ll see colorful and over-the-top church hats on every avenue and
PBS Documentary “Edison” Tells of Challenge to Bring Light to Lower Manhattan
In February 1881, Thomas Alva Edison left his workbench in Menlo Park, New Jersey behind for New York City with
Gowanus Smith-9th Street Bridge Transforms into Light Installation for One Week
From tonight until January 23rd, the Smith-9th Street bridge transforms from its typical concrete structure to a background of colorful
