Portions of the Lott House were first constructed around 1720 by a family that once owned much of the Brooklyn neighborhood.

Despite its current tax-and-spend Democratic Party leadership, New York City has a long history of thriving thanks to free markets.

One hundred years ago, a Hudson man who served as a patrolman in New York City was shot by another man with a grudge against him.

Before there was Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, there was San Juan Hill, a diverse neighborhood of 7,000. CBS News ...

For some historians who specialize in Malcolm X, it's a sign of a mainstream effort to dismiss complicated a nuanced civil ...

Twenty years ago, the craft cocktail landscape looked very different and bars dedicated to cocktails were just gaining ground ...

A sketch rescued in a dumpster in Hudson, New York is a long lost sketch by renowned English portrait painter George Romney.

Researchers have found dozens of human bones on the banks of the iconic river, many of them thousands of years old.

Harrison Trautschold Brown examined the unique culture and history of stoops in New York City, noting that it first ...

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The New Yorker, now celebrating its centenary, has defied media trends by giving an unusual amount of control to the artists ...

The East River Esplanade from East 53rd to East 61st Streets is among lures bringing condo buyers to the Manhattan waterfront ...