Fifty years ago last week, the ground was broken for the World Trade Center. (You can see what the area looked like as construction be...

The Bradford Plan, courtesy of the Boston Public Library Today's not-a-postcard ( see last week's post ) shows New York City as ...

Sure. we've done this postcard already -- you can read all about it here . We posted it today to point you to yesterday's p...

The view south toward Battery Park and Governors Island. Yesterday, we were lucky to be invited to a preview of the new observatory a...

Recently, a reader and fan of Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City , was surprised to discover that we are available t...

As you may have read , there is controversy brewing as to whether the new World Trade Center building (formerly known as the Freedom Tower...

We are just back from visiting the new memorial at the World Trade Center site. Since many of our walking tour clients have asked about the...

Forty years ago today, at 11:30 a.m. on December 23, 1970, the north tower of the original World Trade Center "topped out" when i...

Today marks the 17th anniversary of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people and injured over 1,000 more. The plot and b...