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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

See the 19 new projects in various stages of development in the neighborhood right now.

The rise, fall, and rebirth of the TWA Flight Center mirrors the timeline of the commercial aviation industry at large. In 1956, when TWA, under the ownership of Howard Hughes, commissioned a ...

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 ...

A breakdown of ULURP and how the controversial city planning process is crucial to life in New York.

11 glorious estates of the Hudson Valley, mapped These perfectly preserved historic homes once housed financiers, oil tycoons, and U.S. presidents ...

See 10 of the historic New York City buildings and cultural institutions lost to demolition in the past decade.

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 ...

With the average Manhattan rent hovering around $3,800, it can seem impossible that there was a time when one could find a whole apartment for $500 to $600 a month, let alone something in the ...

Welcome to Curbed Classics, a column in which writer Lisa Santoro traces the history of a classic New York City building. Have a building to nominate for a future installment? Please suggest it to ...