Episode 3: "Industrial New York" airs Wednesday, Jan. 27 at 10 p.m. - With ground breaking CGI historian Dan Snow travels back to a seething Manhattan in the throws of the industrial revolution.

A massive New York City industrial building on the far West Side ... which begins Friday. The streamlined-style structure on Eleventh Avenue at West 26th Street will host runway shows by 15 ...

Then a more industrial landscape appears ... and hot piles of waste tossing off black smoke. “New York City rarely had a day in its history without a waste problem,” Melosi writes.

NEW YORK — Julian Hunt ... a broken piece of their history for public space. “This was the best American example we could find of reprogramming industrial infrastructure.

The Vault is Slate's history blog. Like us on Facebook ... This map, printed by the Merchants’ Association of New York in 1922, shows industrial activity in the city, as reported to the 1919 ...

In New York City, industrial real estate is rapidly disappearing as the city rezones large swaths of the outer boroughs to pave the way for new residential buildings. “The M-zoned [industrially zoned] ...