As a result, the new section of Hunter’s Point South Park feels unmoored from its past, as though its architects took a busy canvas and whitewashed it, creating a new artwork using only the ...

The rise, fall, and rebirth of the TWA Flight Center mirrors the timeline of the commercial aviation industry at large. In 1956, when TWA, under the ownership of Howard Hughes, commissioned a ...

What is ULURP, and why should I care? NYC’s land-use review process, explained ...

The Cedar Grove Beach Club, which opened in 1911, was New York City’s last summertime bungalow community, where homes were built directly on the beach near the Atlantic Ocean. This unique ...

If Manhattanville’s landscape is already a pale reflection of its past, then during the next phase of construction, it will lose even more of its colorful history. As the campus extends to the ...

The street-level public space at 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza (recently rebranded as 28 Liberty Street) is a harmonious union of works by several modern masters. The building itself is a Gordon ...

One of the U.S.’s most stunning examples of Gothic Revival mansions, Lyndhurst is located on a bluff overlooking the Hudson River. Since its construction in 1838, the estate has been home to ...

Until April this year, this site was set to be Bronx’s biggest private development ever. Then, developers Chetrit Group and Somerset Partners sold the set of properties to another bigwig ...

Furthermore, even if Byford gets his money, it will be years until the CBTC project is complete. In the meantime, Dominguez and his team can help the subway run faster in a matter of months; the ...

As part of an integrated plan to redevelop several sites in the South Street Seaport, the Howard Hughes Corporation aims to build an up to 990-foot tower on a contested lot that could bring ...

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, ...

Union Carbide is certainly elegant: a squarish, black-and-silver slab, with a bustle at the back, that reaches up 52 stories without a break. You can’t get to the Union Carbide Building without ...