On December 27, 1845, John L. O'Sullivan wrote an influential editorial for the New York Morning News that is credited as the first ...

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

Two hundred years ago, on December 13, 1818, Mary Ann Todd was born in Lexington, Kentucky. She met Abraham Lincoln after she'd mov...

Co-op City in the Bronx under construction in the early 1970s Fifty years ago, on December 10, 1968, the first families moved into Co-o...

On November 29, 1877 -- one hundred and forty-one years ago today -- Thomas Edison first demonstrated the device that he would patent s...

The modern holiday of Thanksgiving has become totally enmeshed with the story of the Pilgrims and The Mayflower, though the feast held by th...

Installation view; Whitney Museum of American Art. Photography by Ronald Amstutz A few years ago, James wrote a story for Curbed about...

image of the Malbone Street subway crash courtesy of the New York Transit Museum When Governor Andrew Cuomo jokingly (?) suggested the ...

I've got an old mule and her name is Sal Fifteen years on the Erie Canal She's a good old worker and a good old pal Fifteen years on...