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 ...
Photo of tenements on East 27th Street by Rebecca Dalzell. New Yorkers have always scrambled for space. They've crammed into cellars, rookeries, and wooden shacks; hung rows of hammocks in seven-cent ...
In his newly released book, author Joseph Alexiou explores the colorful and polluted history of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal. All photos by Nathan Kensinger. On a recent balmy afternoon, Joseph Alexiou ...
James Nevius is the author of three books about New York City, the most recent of which is Footprints in New York: Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers. New York has undergone such a ...
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 gates ...
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 ...
After three years of rumors and speculation, developers RedSky Capital and JZ Capital Partners announced plans for a 40-story residential building at 18 India Street to be designed by Skidmore, Owings ...
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 ...
Welcome back 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 ...
Philip Dominguez wanted to show me something. We were squeezed into the subway operator’s cab of a test train sitting at the Kings Highway station in Brooklyn. Ahead of us was nothing but perfectly ...
New York City’s affordable housing stock mostly consists of rental apartments, but for those who are in the market to buy, there is one reliable source for homeownership on a budget. Housing ...
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 agencies and ...
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