The Church of the Holy Communion on the corner of 20th Street and Sixth Avenue is one of the most peculiar structures in New York City. The soaring Gothic Revival building, originally used as an ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Admiral's Row, a strip of historic residences in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, is now scheduled to be demolished and replaced with a Wegmans grocery store. All photos by Nathan Kensinger. Welcome back to ...
Welcome back to Critical Eye, Alexandra Lange's incisive, observant, curious, human- and street-friendly architecture column for Curbed. In this edition, Lange visits New York City’s newest subway ...
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 ...
Out in the Rockaways, almost at the end of the A train, a small, forgotten community sits on the shores of Jamaica Bay. Neglected for decades by the government, its streets are lined with vacant lots, ...
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 ...
Down on the waterfront of Sunset Park, billions of dollars in public and private investment have slowly reshaped one of Brooklyn’s last industrial strongholds. Over the past decade, warehouses have ...
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