Tonight, an estimated billion people around the world will watch the illuminated ball drop in Times Square to ring in the new year. This Ne...

Welcome to our new feature, "Postcard Thursday," in which we dive into our extensive archive of New York City scenes to find som...

Gilded New York • © Julie Saad Photography; courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York If you are museum-hopping this holiday seaso...

On December 4, 1783--two hundred and thirty years ago today--George Washington hosted a dinner for his officers in the Long Room at Frau...

Has everyone recovered from their Thanksgiving holiday? Today, as you may know, has been dubbed "cyber Monday," a day feauturing...

This year marks the 150th anniversary of modern Thanksgiving -- that is, a national holiday, celebrated yearly in November. The date moved a...

Today is a holiday that's seldom celebrated in New York anymore: Evacuation Day, the commemoration of the end of the American Revolution...

The "House of Genius" / courtesy of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Inspired by " Renters Week ...

courtesy of the New-York Historical Society (2000.447) In the Amazing Race of its day, on November 14, 1889, stunt journalist Nellie Bl...

New York City has gone by a lot of names: New Amsterdam, Manhattan, the Big Apple, Fun City (that was John Lindsay's idea to draw t...