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O Part One. Dateline: February 15. On this day in 1888 a blizzard befell New York City. Within hours 50 inches blanketed everything u...

In 1908, the beautifully-rendered three-window-wide Beaux-Arts 'Bownette Apartment Building' opened up on the north side of West 81s...

One of the most scarred spots on the island of Manhattan, beaten up by its history, sitting on landfill with very little to remind us it was...

  The Polish Mission to the United Nations was built as a home for the most mysterious of Wall Street's Men of Mystery. Even Joseph Raph...

  Emanuel Leutze’s masterpiece, the epic, iconic Washington Crossing the Delaware. Observations . Let’s just divorce ourselves from everythi...

“Steel is a man-made material. We don’t know what may happen to it 100 years down the line. It may just all start collapsing.“ Those were th...

I  said to a friend and colleague just the day before yesterday, “I can’t believe I’ve lived through two unlikely epochs in NYCs long, stori...

Griffith Thomas was perhaps the most prolific American architect of the mid-19th Century, partnering during the early part ...

The   boy   in   the   window. Pictured in this photograph is a lovely home that sat, still but no longer, on the shore of leafy fashi...

I was walking across 54th Street yesterday, stopped at 205, snapped a photo, and recalled a friend of mine had once moved into an...

The Metropolitan Life Clock Tower on the eastern shore of Madison Square  Park took the crown of tallest building in the world in 1909. ...