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 ...

Lower Manhattan is filled with odd streets, from the obscure intersection of Jay and Staple (where you can own your own skybridge!), to Mill Lane and Edgar Street, which duke it out to be the city's ...

A view of Brooklyn Heights circa 1852. Image courtesy the Museum of the City of New York. The area we know as Brooklyn Heights today was originally a Native American settlement, probably called ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has halted most construction statewide in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic sweeping New York, following outcry from workers and lawmakers when the industry was largely ...

For 95 years now, a curious mosaic has sat, undisturbed, in the ground at Seventh Avenue South and Christopher Street, right in front of Village Cigars. The plaque, though a bit worse for wear, reads ...

Soon after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city’s ambitious plan to extend lower Manhattan into the East River, Klaus Jacob, a special research scientist with Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty ...

The de Blasio administration has encouraged New Yorkers to work remotely, shuttered restaurants and bars, and closed the city’s school system to curb the spread of COVID-19. But private construction ...

In September 1668, Samuel Megapolensis, the pastor of the Dutch church in the newly created city of New York, wrote to a friend about how the Lord had “visited us with dysentery, which is even now ...

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 a ...

It was 50 years ago today the Grand Central Terminal became a New York City landmark, ensuring that the Beaux Arts beauty would be preserved for future generations. (Though it almost wasn’t enough to ...

The contextual base and proposed tower at 250 Water Street in the South Street Seaport. SOM/The Howard Hughes Corporation As part of an integrated plan to redevelop several sites in the South Street ...

Fifty years ago, on August 5, 1966, the sound of jackhammers rang out at the corner of Cortlandt and West streets in the Financial District, and the intersection ceased to exist. Those jackhammers ...