News

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, ...
What is ULURP, and why should I care? NYC’s land-use review process, explained ...
Two things have remained constant about the "Law & Order" universe in its nearly 30-year run: the legendary "dun dun" sound and New York City as a character in the show.
The 1.4-mile-long Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk also begins here, next to the sandy berm. The entire boardwalk will be dismantled and replaced with a 2.5-mile-long section of buried seawall and ...
Take, for example, Hunter’s Point South. Once home to gasworks and other heavy industry, it was first targeted for redevelopment in 1983 by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the ...
If Manhattanville’s landscape is already a pale reflection of its past, then during the next phase of construction, it will lose even more of its colorful history. As the campus extends to the ...
Though it is only partially complete, Shirley Chisholm State Park can already lay claim to the title of “New York City’s nicest park built on top of a toxic waste dump.” That title ...
Fort Totten was built in 1862 to help defend New York Harbor during the Civil War. After the war, it served various other military functions, most recently as an Army Reserve post during the 1970s ...
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 ...
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. Prices started rising in ...
The street-level public space at 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza (recently rebranded as 28 Liberty Street) is a harmonious union of works by several modern masters. The building itself is a Gordon ...
September 7, 2017 Amazon announced that it will build a second, 50,000-employee strong headquarters, and will accept proposals from cities who are interested in welcoming Jeff Bezos & Co. The tech ...