Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe! Born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Poe would, in his short life, become one of the most important Amer...

courtesy of the New York Public Library Today's image shows the Dakota Apartments, ca. 1890, when the Upper West Side was first beco...

Edgar Allan Poe didn't live in New York City all that long, but he left an indelible stamp on the city. Of all the places he lived, o...

Photo by PilotGirl on flickr.  Our friends over at Curbed published a nice map of New York's mews (mewses?) today, including one of...

Just a friendly reminder that this Sunday, May 2, at 4:00 p.m., is our free walking tour of the Upper West Side sponsored by Borders. This w...

Save the Date: Sunday, May 2, 2010, at 4:00 p.m. FREE EVENT Following on our successful March walk in lower Central Park, we are returni...

J.D. Salinger on the cover of Time , 1961 Yesterday brought the sad news of the death of J.D. Salinger, author of the classic New York tal...

Glenn Collins at The New York Times posted an interesting blog entry today about the mystery surrounding the naming of Lincoln Center. The...

Opening on Broadway tonight is the eagerly anticipated revival of the Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim/Jerome Robbins musical West Side St...

Today, Edgar Allan Poe turns 200 years old. While he was born in Boston and died (under somewhat mysterious circumstances ) in Baltimore, it...