As a walking tour guide and historian, I’ve discovered that an often-overlooked source for understanding New York City is old guidebooks. Whether it’s something as mundane as addresses of railway ...

One sunny afternoon about a year ago, I rendezvoused with two old friends for a beer. Each of us arrived on a CitiBike from our respective neighborhoods. We convened at a newly opened outdoor ...

If you buy something from a Curbed link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics policy. Part of The beginner’s guide to New York City There are hundreds, if not thousands, of books about New ...

It is not often that Yonkers can claim to be more innovative than New York City, but in its gritty downtown corridor, a unique project unlike anything in the five boroughs is currently unfolding.

Lower Manhattan is filled with odd streets, from the obscure intersection of Jay and Staple (where you can own your own skybridge!), to Mill Lane and Edgar Street, which duke it out to be the city's ...

Despite their historic significance, the aging casitas of the South Bronx face an uncertain future. All photos by Nathan Kensinger. The last crops of a bountiful summer are now being collected in the ...

Out on the east coast of Staten Island, one of New York City’s first major responses to the existential threat of climate change may soon break ground. This March, the last bit of bureaucratic red ...

Over the last decade, the landscape of New York City has seen an unprecedented amount of change. Luxury towers and megaprojects rose across the city, and miles of previously off-limits coastline were ...

On a sunny afternoon in the middle of May, Eero Saarinen’s soaring Jet Age terminal at JFK Airport is as bustling as it was when it first opened in 1962. Models and dancers dressed in vintage TWA ...

The Brooklyn Navy Yard released a new master plan that includes 5.1 million square feet of new development Courtesy BNYDC and WXY Fifty years ago, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was launching ships; today, it ...

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 ...

The Church of the Holy Communion on the corner of 20th Street and Sixth Avenue is one of the most peculiar structures in New York City. The soaring Gothic Revival building, originally used as an ...