As a walking tour guide and historian, I’ve discovered that an often-overlooked source for understanding New York City is old guidebooks. Whether it’s something as mundane as addresses of railway ...

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 such ...

One sunny afternoon about a year ago, I rendezvoused with two old friends for a beer. Each of us arrived on a CitiBike from our respective neighborhoods. We convened at a newly opened outdoor ...

If you buy something from a Curbed link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics policy. Part of The beginner’s guide to New York City There are hundreds, if not thousands, of books about New ...

The New York City housing market could not look more different today than it did at the beginning of the 2010s. The financial crisis in 2008 didn’t hit New York housing as hard as it did in other ...

All along the coast of New York City, hard decisions are being made about how to address the inevitability of sea level rise. An enormous sea wall is rising in Staten Island, massive storm surge gates ...

A view of Brooklyn Heights circa 1852. Image courtesy the Museum of the City of New York. The area we know as Brooklyn Heights today was originally a Native American settlement, probably called ...

Entering SHoP's new office in the Woolworth Building. All photos by Will Femia. Growing, forward-looking architecture firm moves into iconic New York City skyscraper: the symbolism is obvious. But as ...

It is not often that Yonkers can claim to be more innovative than New York City, but in its gritty downtown corridor, a unique project unlike anything in the five boroughs is currently unfolding.

It wasn’t all that long ago that transportation in New York City meant horses. Coaches, carriages, trolleys, omnibuses—all were dependent on teams of working animals. And this, of course, meant that ...

Subway stations don’t need colorful mosaics or installations by famous artists to have a distinctive style—but those things do give commuters something lovely to look at while waiting for a train to ...

Welcome to Curbed Classics, a column in which writer Lisa Santoro traces the history of a classic New York City building. Have a building to nominate for a future installment? Please suggest it to the ...