1+ hour, 27+ min ago  (394+ words) The Brooklyn Bridge is celebrating its 143rd birthday on May 24, the day Gilded Age New Yorkers could finally walk across this wondrous span and celebrate the uniting of Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Brooklyn Bridge over peaceful waters, the bridge and its…...

1+ hour, 27+ min ago  (455+ words) The Brooklyn Bridge is celebrating its 143rd birthday on May 24, the day Gilded Age New Yorkers could finally walk across this wondrous span and celebrate the uniting of Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Brooklyn Bridge over peaceful waters, the bridge and its…...

1+ hour, 27+ min ago  (455+ words) The Brooklyn Bridge is celebrating its 143rd birthday on May 24, the day Gilded Age New Yorkers could finally walk across this wondrous span and celebrate the uniting of Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Brooklyn Bridge over peaceful waters, the bridge and its…...

1+ hour, 27+ min ago  (455+ words) The Brooklyn Bridge is celebrating its 143rd birthday on May 24, the day Gilded Age New Yorkers could finally walk across this wondrous span and celebrate the uniting of Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Brooklyn Bridge over peaceful waters, the bridge and its…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (802+ words) They look like the kind of row houses that make Greenwich Village and the Upper West Side so picturesque'elegant stone facades, rounded archways, pops of stained glass, and cast iron railings on stoops and balconies. But this four-block span of…...

1+ week, 59+ min ago  (275+ words) John Sloan was a Village resident and something of a voyeur in the early 1900s, discreetly watching from his window or walking nearby streets in search of scenes to commit to canvas. He never lacked material, finding inspiration in the ordinary:…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (362+ words) You can see it from the Henry Hudson Parkway: the back of an ordinary seven-story tenement built on a primitive stone foundation that's almost as tall as the tenement itself. The foundation is made from the kind of uneven stones…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (778+ words) They look like the kind of row houses that make Greenwich Village and the Upper West Side so picturesque'elegant stone facades, rounded archways, pops of stained glass, and cast iron railings on stoops and balconies. But this four-block span of…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago  (639+ words) New York is a city of hooks'Red Hook in Brooklyn, Corlears Hook on the Lower East Side, Tubby Hook in Inwood, for example. Okay, Tubby Hook is a name that hasn't been widely used for a century. But in the…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago  (521+ words) It's a piece of street furniture from another era'grimy granite blocks, white brick, and Romanesque faux doorways that give the little structure a connection to Classical architecture. But what exactly is this locked and rundown building in the middle of…...