As part of an integrated plan to redevelop several sites in the South Street Seaport, the Howard Hughes Corporation aims to build an up to 990-foot tower on a contested lot that could bring ...

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 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 ...

What is ULURP, and why should I care? NYC’s land-use review process, explained ...

Take, for example, Hunter’s Point South. Once home to gasworks and other heavy industry, it was first targeted for redevelopment in 1983 by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and 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 ...

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.

Though it is only partially complete, Shirley Chisholm State Park can already lay claim to the title of “New York City’s nicest park built on top of a toxic waste dump.” That title ...

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 ...

Celebrity real estate listings are a common affair in New York, but it’s only every so often that those listings are for actual celebrity royalty. Today is one of those days: Meryl Streep has ...

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 ...

One of the U.S.’s most stunning examples of Gothic Revival mansions, Lyndhurst is located on a bluff overlooking the Hudson River. Since its construction in 1838, the estate has been home to ...