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'ROBERT CARO'S THE POWER BROKER AT 50' is at the New-York Historical Society through February 2. The Power Broker is turning 50. The final LBJ book is almost--well, he won't [...]

FOR MANY YEARS in its early history, this magazine took it upon itself to identify New York's most powerful inhabitants, delineate their influence, and in doing so expose how the [...]

The third avenue bridge, the span that swings open and shut over the Harlem River near 128th Street, carries about 50,000 vehicles a day. On July 8, as the temperature [...]

'IT'S ONLY HER TODAY,' a production assistant told a pedestrian on East 21st Street on the warm morning of May 21. The her in question needed no clarification because a [...]

EVEN AMONG PEOPLE who support legal cannabis, it's pretty widely accepted that our streets now have too many weed shops, many of them operating outside the law. Since Albany relaxed [...]

In 1931, a writer named George Tichenor made his way from his home on West 21st Street down to the Lower East Side to see a play. Galicia Aflame, by [...]

We Made Another Book! Disco. The freak show. Neoconservatism. Q-tips. They all started in the world's most creative, inventive city. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEW YORK is on sale October 20. [...]

WHEN THE CITY rezoned the area around Grand Central Terminal in 2017, the idea was that the neighborhood would get a makeover. Most buildings in Midtown East are either stolid [...]

* ROSALIND FOX SOLOMON has rarely worked on assignment. When she first started taking photographs with an idea of making art, few would have expected her to turn that pursuit [...]

Look up when you walk through the World Trade Center Oculus, and you can forgive almost everything: the $4 billion bill as the rest of the transit system starved, the [...]

IN 1970, an artist named David Young bought a box of 1930s news photos at a secondhand store in Philadelphia. He just liked the look of them, he says now, [...]

IF THEY'RE TALENTED AND THEY'RE LUCKY, designer-artist-creators get to lob an icon out into the larger culture--the ultrafamiliar shape of Leo Fender's Stratocaster guitar, say, or Shepard Fairey's Obama poster. [...]

This picture made Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig's career. Almost nothing in it happened by accident. IT WAS NOVEMBER 22, 1943, and Arthur Fellig, known as Weegee, was ready for the night [...]

Letter puzzles have taken over social media. Is it an innocent pastime or revenge of the nerds? In early January I started seeing a trickle of peculiar posts in my [...]

DIANE ARBUS: IN THE PARK will be exhibited at Levy Gorvy starting on May 2. IN THE 1940s AND '50s, as a newlywed fashion photographer collaborating with her husband, Diane [...]

IT'S EASY to convince yourself, after a year in virtual space, that most of the world's knowledge is either online or can be acquired with a couple of Amazon clicks. [...]

'MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. These are nice,' begins an early scene in Tom Wolfe's 'Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's' published in New York Magazine's issue of June 8,1970. He was talking about [...]

A few days after the crash, I went down to the Park Slope corner where it had happened. There was--is--one of those makeshift altars, the kind that appear after every [...]

BLUFF CITY The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers By Preston Lauterbach Illustrated. 339 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $27.95.When Ernest Withers was a press photographer in Memphis in the [...]

TOKYO'S HOTEL OKURA, A MASTERPIECE OF JAPANESE MIDCENTURY DESIGN, IS IN DANGER OF BEING TORN DOWN. IN A CITY WHERE THE NEED FOR SPACE HAS OFTEN TRUMPED PRESERVATION, THE INTERNATIONAL [...]

THE DATE WAS APRIL 20, 1978. The scene: the Great Hall of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. On the stage sat the Italian modernist Massimo [...]

IS THERE ANY FILM IN WHICH EVERYONE TALKS FASTER than His Girl Friday? Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell are the quintessential city-newspaper people, leaping from interview to interview and tip [...]

YOU-OR YOUR mother or your aunt or your grandmother--probably first encountered Gail Sheehy's writing in 1976, when she published Passages. It was an immense best seller, one of the biggest [...]

TO CLARIFY: ERIC ADAMS has indeed left Borough Hall in the past six weeks. The Brooklyn borough president goes for walks across the street in Columbus Park, and 'every day, [...]

AVEDON ADVERTISING will be published by Abrams on October 8. WE ALL KNOW THE Richard Avedon style of portraiture: pure-white backdrop, classical pose, a Kissinger or Monroe (or even a [...]

LADY IN THE LAKE will be published by William Morrow on July 23. 'Baltimore is a city where they give directions according to what's not there anymore,' Laura Lippman says, [...]

In 1969, New York missed the Stonewall rebellion. But in the five decades since, we've covered the changing shape of LGBT life. September 24, 1973 'How 'Gay' Is New York?' [...]

TOM SLAUGHTER is out now from the Artist Book Foundation. IN 1981, JUST as Soho loft living became legal, Tom Slaughter moved to a building on Broadway near Prince Street. [...]

* Richard Nixon inadvertently helped New York grow up. The magazine was founded in 1968, the year he was elected to the presidency. A few years later, coverage of the [...]

SANLE SORY: VOLTA PHOTO is at Yossi Milo Gallery from April 24 through June 16. YOU'VE ALMOST SURELY never heard of Sanle Sory. Beginning in the late 1950s, he was [...]

We were looking at the future. 'Fiction and fact are indeed becoming hard to disentangle. I hope that, in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley and I have added, constructively and [...]

Byline: christopher bonanos The Story It's official: Downtown Brooklyn will soon look a little bit more like Dubai. Michael Stern's 73-story building at 9 DeKalb Avenue, designed by SHoP Architects [...]

Byline: christopher bonanos The Story 'A lot of horrible things have happened to me,' Viva is saying, from her home in Palm Springs, 'but I would consider that the worst.' [...]

Byline: Christopher Bonanos The Story American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, the pulpy series that airs its finale on April 5, can't possibly re-create one thing: the degree [...]

Byline: christopher bonanos The Story 'I had gone off to Europe to write for the Saturday Evening Post,' Pete Hamill recalls, 'and then came back almost a year later, and [...]

Byline: christopher bonanos The Story When New York took a long look at Broadway back in 1995, there was no talk of a golden age. Instead, the question on the [...]

Byline: christopher bonanos The Story In her cover story beginning on page 42, Rebecca Traister notes that more American women now are single than are married. That demographic shift was [...]

Byline: christopher bonanos Usually, the call goes out on Twitter before lunch, on Lin-Manuel Miranda's feed, and it's a little cryptic. 'A fellow composer on tonight's #Ham4Ham show! singing a [...]

Byline: christopher bonanos andrew savulich started getting his photographs into the Daily News around 1980. 'Back when I started,' he recalls, 'there wasn't much use of freelancers--the union was pretty [...]

Byline: christopher bonanos, matt giles During the Civil War, nearly 500,000 soldiers and sailors signed up in New York State, perhaps a third of them from the two separate cities [...]

Byline: christopher bonanos Are you naturally gray, or ...?' Jens Risom teases me when we meet. I've just shown up at his home in New Canaan, and he's kidding rather [...]

Byline: christopher bonanos In the year of Barack Obama's election, the artist Hank Willis Thomas created a project called 'Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America, 1968'2008.' It was made [...]