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 ...

If Manhattanville’s landscape is already a pale reflection of its past, then during the next phase of construction, it will lose even more of its colorful history. As the campus extends to 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 street-level public space at 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza (recently rebranded as 28 Liberty Street) is a harmonious union of works by several modern masters. The building itself is a Gordon ...

The crowded field of competitors who’ve proposed solutions for the ailing Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has gotten another entrant: Bjarke Ingels Group, which has unveiled a proposal that it calls ...

Union Carbide is certainly elegant: a squarish, black-and-silver slab, with a bustle at the back, that reaches up 52 stories without a break. You can’t get to the Union Carbide Building without ...

The 1.4-mile-long Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk also begins here, next to the sandy berm. The entire boardwalk will be dismantled and replaced with a 2.5-mile-long section of buried seawall and ...

Decade of Fire, a new documentary, tells a different story about the borough’s fires—and the communities affected by them ...

You don’t have to get too far outside of New York City—30, maybe 40 miles—before the landscape changes. Dense urban areas and suburban strip malls grow fewer and farther between, and a more ...

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, ...

Until April this year, this site was set to be Bronx’s biggest private development ever. Then, developers Chetrit Group and Somerset Partners sold the set of properties to another bigwig ...

There was once a time when the two-mile Flushing Creek was a pristine waterway. It was once home to tribes of Algonquin Native Americans, who first settled Long Island as late as 1500, and was ...