The New York City housing market could not look more different today than it did at the beginning of the 2010s. The financial crisis in 2008 didn’t hit New York housing as hard as it did in ...

The intricacies of New York City’s zoning laws tend to make even the wonkiest of city wonks’ eyes glaze over, but it’s almost impossible to overstate the importance of those byzantine rules ...

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 ...

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 bar ...

New York has been called the most haunted city in the world, and with good reason. Every single street is steeped in history, and in the four-hundred-plus years of cycles of expansion ...

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 ...

Every time it rains in New York, millions of gallons of sewage-laced stormwater flows into the city’s waterways. Instead of being diverted to a wastewater treatment plant, what goes down your ...

Out on the east coast of Staten Island, one of New York City’s first major responses to the existential threat of climate change may soon break ground. This March, the last bit of bureaucratic ...

Along the banks of the Flushing Creek—one of New York’s most vital and most polluted waterways—dozens of construction cranes loom over the landscape, and half-finished glass towers cast ...

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 ...

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 ...

The river was there—just hidden away. It was down at the edges of the toxic landfill, and out under the train tracks, by the dead end road. It was off of the abandoned trail, near the sewage ...