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Constructed as a Victorian folly; smaller scale, largely nonfunctional buildings designed to enhance the natural landscape, Belvedere Castle ...

Alexander Hamilton's home, the only house he was ever known to have owned, sits in the center of ...

The Ottendorfer Library was a gift to the city of New York, as was its adjoining health clinic, ...

In 1654 Thomas Pell, an English physician living in Connecticut, made a deal with the Siwanoy Indians and ...

Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in the Hamilton Heights Historic District of Harlem is a work of ...

With all the fuss being kicked up about horse-drawn carriages in Midtown, it may be hard to believe ...

The Citizen's Savings Bank at the corner of the Bowery and Canal and anchoring the Manhattan Bridge was ...

Neatly tucked in between the old brick buildings on the north side of the street east of Lafayette ...

High Bridge Water Tower West 174th Street at Amsterdam Avenue, Architect: John B. Jervis, Year built: 1872

Built on a high peak in what is now Washington Heights, the Morris-Jumel Mansion (MJM), Manhattan's oldest surviving ...

HL23, the 14 story co-op tower on West 23rd Street and 10th Avenue is thoroughly modern in design ...

NEW YORK—The storefront of the Scribner's Sons building on Fifth Avenue near 48th Street is lavishly decorated in ...

The oldest known site of continuous religious practice on the island of Manhattan—St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery.

In the 1890s, Lillian Wald, a young nurse in her twenties, moved to the to Lower East Side ...

NEW YORK—Like pleated swags of fabric billowing in the winds that blow off the Hudson River, the glass ...

New York City Structures:New York's narrowest house is on the market again with an asking price $4.3 million.

New York City Structures, One Building at a Time: 32nd Precinct House.

Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for soldiers and sailors who died in ...

Publishing giant grabs 1 million square feet

NEW YORK—In January 1898 the U.S. battleship Maine traveled to the port of Havana during a Cuban revolt ...

The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument on the Upper West Side was constructed in memory of Union Army Civil ...

The main branch of the New York Public Library celebrates its centennial anniversary this month. When it opened ...

NEW YORK—Stately, squared shouldered and heads above the rest—the Empire State Building turned 80 on Friday, May 1.

NEW YORK—As the stretch of Broadway between Union Square and Madison Square Park became known as “Ladies' Mile,” ...

In honor of Earth Day we are looking at the Hearst Tower on Eighth Avenue at 57th Street.

The bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi, that lives at the southern end of Union Square Park, seems to ...

NEW YORK—As one of the City Landmarks and Preservation Committee's newest additions to protected status, the Japan Society ...