The Elevated Railway near Morningside Park 'Tis the season for year-end wrap-ups and "Best of 2018" lists. James is plea...

This week, James had a story published by Curbed  on the history and development of Jackson Heights, Queens. The neighborhood is modeled ...

courtesy of the Supreme Court / New York Magazine This class picture from May 1947 shows students at PS 13 in Queens. The boy whose face...

Back in 2011, we wrote a blog post pondering the fate of Frederick MacMonnies's sculpture "Civic Virtue," which is the sub...

At some point, we will examine the New York World's Fair of 1939-40 in greater depth. Today, let's just enjoy this picture of the...

Word came down yesterday that the Broadway revival of Born Yesterday is closing next week . The play's Tony-nominated star, Nina Ariand...

Yesterday, the Daily News —in a column titled “The Eyesore Next Door”— examined Frederick MacMonnies’s Civic Virtue , which is slowly disin...

Norman Mailer called it "Probably the worst news to hit Brooklyn since the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles." No, he wasn't back ...