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 70 years of promises, Brooklyn’s newest waterfront park is finally open for visitors. The first section of Shirley Chisholm State Park recently made its official debut on a site that was ...
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 ...
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 such ...
It wasn’t all that long ago that transportation in New York City meant horses. Coaches, carriages, trolleys, omnibuses—all were dependent on teams of working animals. And this, of course, meant that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In 1943, four major newspapers published an extensive analysis of the market (recently digitized by CUNY's Center for Urban Research), which shows that while $50 may have been the average, there were ...
It wasn’t all that long ago that the sidewalks of Manhattanville, up in West Harlem, were lined with the gritty industrial architecture that once defined New York City. Cobblestones and ...
On May 18, 1976, a tourist named W.J. Schaap, of St. Louis, Missouri, settled his bill at the front desk of the Hotel Commodore and became the final guest to leave the premises. The hotel, a fading ...
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 ...
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