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 ...

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 ...

All along the coast of New York City, hard decisions are being made about how to address the inevitability of sea level rise. An enormous sea wall is rising in Staten Island, massive storm surge ...

There is a spot, walking north on the High Line toward West 30th Street, where Hudson Yards looks almost all right. The Shed, wearing a pillowy parka made from weatherproof ETFE panels, slides in ...

New York City’s museums aren’t the only places to find beautiful or thought-provoking art. Since 1967, when the first public art program was established in the city, a diverse array of ...

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 interior of the Yale Club. Photo by the Wurts Brothers, courtesy of the New York Public Library. Modern private social clubs (which are usually seen as distinct from fraternal organizations ...

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 ...

Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Squibb Bridge has been plagued with problems since it opened in 2013, including one lawsuit, multiple structural snafus, and years of closures to address those issues.

Goodbye, Show World: The last days of Times Square’s peep shows. As Times Square’s fortunes rose, the businesses that came to define it in the 1960s and ’70s have all but disappeared ...

When the Ford Foundation’s 12 stories of mahogany-colored granite, Cor-Ten steel, and transparent glass opened on 42nd Street in 1967, urban observers saw it as a gift. Designed by Kevin Roche ...

In the 1970s, fires ravaged much of the Bronx: seven census tracts lost 97 percent of their buildings and 44 tracts lost more than 50 percent. Many people still believe that those fires were the ...