Over the past decade, New York City’s post-industrial waterfront has been transformed by countless new construction projects. Refineries and factories have been torn down and replaced with ...

There is a spot, walking north on the High Line toward West 30th Street, where Hudson Yards looks almost all right. The Shed, wearing a pillowy parka made from weatherproof ETFE panels, slides in ...

Over the last decade, the landscape of New York City has seen an unprecedented amount of change. Luxury towers and megaprojects rose across the city, and miles of previously off-limits coastline ...

In the fall of 1988—in a scene so cliche it’s sometimes hard for me to believe that it actually happened—I arrived at Port Authority bus terminal with a suitcase, a blank check from my ...

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 ...

Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Squibb Bridge has been plagued with problems since it opened in 2013, including one lawsuit, multiple structural snafus, and years of closures to address those issues.

Tucked away from the hustle and bustle of Times Square and nearly hidden from view from most tourists, you’ll find the Blue Store & DVD, a sex shop located in the shadow of the 52-story New York ...

In the 1970s, fires ravaged much of the Bronx: seven census tracts lost 97 percent of their buildings and 44 tracts lost more than 50 percent. Many people still believe that those fires were the ...

The first of my recent conversations about megadevelopments with Vishaan Chakrabarti, founder of the Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), took place in early February, when the world was ...

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. Designed by Kevin Roche ...

Things sure have changed in the South Bronx since the 1970s, when a large number of buildings in the area either burned down or were abandoned. In recent decades, the city invested over $1 billion ...

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 ...