As a result, the new section of Hunter’s Point South Park feels unmoored from its past, as though its architects took a busy canvas and whitewashed it, creating a new artwork using only the ...

In 1915, the Yale Club opened a giant, 22-story facility on Vanderbilt Avenue—making it then, as now, the largest private club in the world. Celebrated at the time as a sign of Yale's dominance ...

The Cedar Grove Beach Club, which opened in 1911, was New York City’s last summertime bungalow community, where homes were built directly on the beach near the Atlantic Ocean. This unique ...

Sculptures, murals, and everything in between. In 2016, Turner Prize-winning artist Rachel Whiteread installed this piece, a concrete cast of a wooden shed, on one of Governors Island’s new hills.

With Baz Luhrmann's remake of seminal novel The Great Gatsby out tomorrow (trailer!), everyone's gone mad for the 1920s all over again. Lavish theme parties, mood music, flapper-esque costumes from ...

Fifty years ago, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was launching ships; today, it’s launching startups. This evolution is no clearer than from atop Building 77, a World War II-era factory in the throes of ...

The median home sale price for all of New York City in the first quarter of 2010 was $383,699, according to data provided to Curbed by Miller Samuel/Douglas Elliman.

Enormous new planes brought with them passenger levels unforeseen in Saarinen’s era, and the airport heaved under the added pressure. When TWA Flight Center opened in 1962, 11.5 million people ...

New York has been called the most haunted city in the world, and with good reason. Every single street is steeped in history, and in the four-hundred-plus years of cycles of expansion, ...

On Staten Island, a massive barrier will rise to protect against climate change. New York City’s latest efforts to fight climate change underscore the reality that the city is facing a very ...

It wasn’t all that long ago that the sidewalks of Manhattanville, up in West Harlem, were lined with the gritty industrial architecture that once defined New York City. Cobblestones and ...

There was once a time when the two-mile Flushing Creek was a pristine waterway. It was once home to tribes of Algonquin Native Americans, who first settled Long Island as late as 1500, and was ...