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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.
The median home sale price for all of New York City in the first quarter of 2010 was $383,699, according to data provided to Curbed by Miller Samuel/Douglas Elliman.
On Staten Island, a massive barrier will rise to protect against climate change. New York City’s latest efforts to fight climate change underscore the reality that the city is facing a very ...
Fort Totten was built in 1862 to help defend New York Harbor during the Civil War. After the war, it served various other military functions, most recently as an Army Reserve post during the 1970s.
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 rise of New York’s new leisure waterfront. How all of this looks and feels—whether it’s clever or profane—depends on how you feel about the deindustrialization of the waterfront ...
What is ULURP, and why should I care? NYC’s land-use review process, explained ...
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 ...
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 ...
Critics say the latest plan to address sewage overflows in NYC, which dump millions of gallons of sewage into the city’s waterways every year, is "barely a drop in the bucket." ...
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 ...
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.