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The history of New York City’s lost City Island monorail is a fascinating chapter in urban planning that illustrates both ambition and failure. In the early 20th century, City Island—located in the ...
Clayton Patterson, the street photographer, has thousands of images, video and paraphernalia from the neighborhood’s ...
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They Built This City
Barry Diller, of Beverly Hills, arrived here in 1966 in his mid-20s, finding the city so “overstimulating and disorienting” ...
The Coney Island History Project is ringing in the summer season with two new art exhibits opening May 24, Memorial Day ...
The Capitol is a building and a symbol. As the state around it evolves to address the needs of the current age, the structure itself has changed in ways large and small. However overdue, the ...
By Iger Rolyat The Harlem Tourism Board is hosting a special presentation as part of this year’s NYCxDesignFestival on ...
When it came to building Washington, D.C., "drain the swamp" was a very literal phrase. How did this capital city rise from ...