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 ...

NYC will remake the East River waterfront to fight climate change. It may not be enough “Other people can go to the Hamptons; we go to East River Park” ...

There is a spot, walking north on the High Line toward West 30th Street, where Hudson Yards looks almost all right. The Shed, wearing a pillowy parka made from weatherproof ETFE panels, slides in ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1915, the Yale Club opened a giant, 22-story facility on Vanderbilt Avenue—making it then, as now, the largest private club in the world. Celebrated at the time as a sign of Yale's dominance ...

The Cedar Grove Beach Club, which opened in 1911, was New York City’s last summertime bungalow community, where homes were built directly on the beach near the Atlantic Ocean. This unique ...

My intention, when I first started working on this story months ago, was to make a case for the good megadevelopment, to locate the exemplary version of what we used to call urban renewal. I had ...

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.

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 from ...

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 ...

Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Squibb Bridge has been plagued with problems since it opened in 2013, including one lawsuit, multiple structural snafus, and years of closures to address those issues ...