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NYC’s Forgotten ‘War on Christmas Trees’
Discover how an obscure holiday crackdown affects festive street vendors today!
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Female Inmates Create Art Mural Inside Rikers Island with Groundswell
Photo via Groundswell The Rose M. Singer Center at Rikers Island is the women’s barracks of Rikers Island, opened
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The Abandoned Rockland Psychiatric Center in Orangeburg, NY is Now the Stuff of Nightmares
The semi-abandoned Rockland Psychiatric Center in Orangeburg, NY, formerly Rockland State Hospital, was one of the many asylums built during
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Cities 101: The Evolution of NYC’s Neighborhood Names
Neighborhood names evoke a specific sense of place. The best names connect places to their geography and history, and emphasize
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The 2015 11 Most Endangered Historic Places List is Out and South Street Seaport is on it
Schermerhorn Row on Fulton Street New York City has one spot on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s annual
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Remnants of Chelsea’s Pier 54, A Cunard-White Star Line Pier With a Tragic History
Chelsea Piers was once one of New York’s busiest shipping centers at the turn of the 20th century. Not
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NY Film Locations: Orange is the New Black Exterior Set at Rockland Psychiatric Center
Our readers have been eating up our roundup of film locations for the hit Netflix show Orange Is the New
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Get a Sneak Peek Inside the “Seinfeld: The Apartment” Recreation in NYC
It’s amazing how “A Show About Nothing,” can mean so much to New York City. In celebration of the
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Larger-Than-Life Works by 92-Year-Old Painter Ellsworth Kelly at Chelsea’s Matthew Marks Gallery
At 92 years old, you would expect someone like Ellsworth Kelly, long-established as a forerunner of the minimalist, hard-edge painting,
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The Top 10 Secrets of NYC’s Bryant Park
Bryant Park is one of the city’s most illustrious public spaces, but it has come a long way from
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New Photo Exhibit at Four Seasons Restaurant Pits Two Iconic Modernist Houses “Side by Side”
Although the Picasso tapestry at the Four Seasons Restaurant is now on display at the New York Historical Society, the
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The Liberty Inn, NYC’s Last ‘Romance Hotel’ Stands in the Meatpacking District, a Block from The High Line
It’s called The Liberty Inn. On an unassuming corner of West Street and 15th Street, it’s an oddly
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Inside the 2015 Chelsea Music Festival Finale at St. Paul’s Church in Chelsea
Last Saturday, the 2015 Chelsea Music Festival, now in its sixth season, concluded eight days of events Chelsea‘s German