With Baz Luhrmann's remake of seminal novel The Great Gatsby out tomorrow (trailer!), everyone's gone mad for the 1920s all over again. Lavish theme parties, mood music, flapper-esque costumes ...

The interior of the Yale Club. Photo by the Wurts Brothers, courtesy of the New York Public Library. Modern private social clubs (which are usually seen as distinct from fraternal organizations ...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the lush landscape along the Hudson River attracted New York’s wealthiest families—the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers among them—who built palatial Gilded Age ...

Today’s New Yorkers likely don’t think of their city as a stronghold of military operations, but starting around the time of the Revolutionary War and up through the War of 1812, many forts ...

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 ...

On May 18, 1976, a tourist named W.J. Schaap, of St. Louis, Missouri, settled his bill at the front desk of the Hotel Commodore and became the final guest to leave the premises. The hotel, a ...