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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The art organization’s decision to open in Beacon and reclaim the town’s former Nabisco box printing factory as a contemporary art museum was the largest cog in the machine of Beacon’s remaking.

The impact of the city’s plan would be enormous. At East River Park, which would be partially closed off in phases over the duration of the project, ballfields, tracks, playgrounds, historic ...

Welcome back to Camera Obscura, Curbed's series of photo essays by Nathan Kensinger. This week, in the latest in a sequence of essays about New York City's vernacular architecture, Kensinger visits ...

On the eastern side, both 10 and 30 Hudson Yards were designed by KPF, and both manage to be squat and pointy and shiny and pointless. You’ll know 30 Hudson Yards by Edge, the observation deck ...

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 ...

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.

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.

These chic New York hotels are a cut above the cookie-cutter international chains with striking interiors and an emphasis on good design.