Ralph Walker's limestone-clad 1 Wall Street is an Art Deco beauty inside and out. The 50-story building was constructed during the same period as the Empire State and Chrysler buildings, and it ...

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 ...

Sculptures, murals, and everything in between. In 2016, Turner Prize-winning artist Rachel Whiteread installed this piece, a concrete cast of a wooden shed, on one of Governors Island’s new hills.

In 1915, the Yale Club opened a giant, 22-story facility on Vanderbilt Avenue—making it then, as now, the largest private club in the world. Celebrated at the time as a sign of Yale's dominance ...

Two things have remained constant about the "Law & Order" universe in its nearly 30-year run: the legendary "dun dun" sound and New York City as a character in the show.

It wasn’t all that long ago that the sidewalks of Manhattanville, up in West Harlem, were lined with the gritty industrial architecture that once defined New York City. Cobblestones and ...

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.

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

1. Plan way, way ahead. Subway delays are, unfortunately, a part of life, and nothing short of courageous political leadership to bring about the necessary upgrades that will drag the subway into ...

Caroline Spivack is a native New Yorker born and raised in Brooklyn. As a reporter at Curbed NY, she covers the city’s built environment through a lens of urbanism and local news.

DeRienzo and his friends who lived on the street are shown in the film organizing and rebuilding, but they weren’t the only ones. Decade of Fire shows a map of more than 20 organizations that ...

New York City’s best urban farms. From Bushwick to the Bronx, these 17 urban farms provide fresh food and green space for their communities ...