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Plans for a tower near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and a skate facility in Mount Prospect Park bring mixed reactions. Shadows cast by a proposed 14-story tower on Franklin Avenue [...]

Plans for a tower near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and a skate facility in Mount Prospect Park bring mixed reactions. Shadows cast by a proposed 14-story tower on Franklin Avenue [...]

The James A. Bailey residence at St. Nicholas Place and 150th Street in Harlem, built in 1888 for the less flamboyant partner of the Barnum & Bailey team, is a [...]

Byline: John Freeman Gill The James A. Bailey residence at St. Nicholas Place and 150th Street in Harlem, built in 1888 for the less flamboyant partner of the Barnum & [...]

On a sunny Bronx morning late last year, an all-star team of stained-glass experts prepared to enter a dank 1894 tomb at Woodlawn Cemetery that had been opened just once [...]

Byline: John Freeman Gill On a sunny Bronx morning late last year, an all-star team of stained-glass experts prepared to enter a dank 1894 tomb at Woodlawn Cemetery that had [...]

Few people have shaped the streetscape of New York as prominently as the stone-carving Piccirilli brothers, six Italian immigrants who turned out one important public sculpture after another at their [...]

Virginia Allen, a poised 92-year-old with an elegant sweep of white hair and a nagging case of sciatica, remembers the first time she set foot on the sprawling green campus [...]

The church on West 14th Street, the first in Manhattan created for a Spanish-speaking congregation a century ago, has been deconsecrated. Its future is uncertain. The Church of Our Lady [...]

Saved from ruin by Green-Wood Cemetery more than a decade ago, the newly rebuilt structure is to become a focal point of a new education center. New Yorkers are lucky [...]

Once accused of ignoring the largely Latino residents of Washington Heights, the Hispanic Society will take the lead in a new charm offensive. If you are heading down Upper Broadway [...]

The historic building at 128 West 17th Street has been vacant for years, and preservation advocates fear its damaged roof may eventually prompt developers to tear it down. Unbeknown to [...]

Before it was a clothing store, it was a bar, and before it was a bar, it was a key part of American history. In a city of showy skyscrapers [...]

A fledgling preservation group is urging the restoration of the long-suffering memorial lighthouse, but funds are scarce. On a landlocked street corner at the entrance to the South Street Seaport [...]

More than 1,000 terra-cotta sculptures -- of firefighters, mermaids, steelworkers -- adorn the walls of Parkchester in the Bronx. Is there a plan to protect them? Among the more than [...]

The venerable city landmark, a star of industrial modernism when it opened, is adding amenities for commercial tenants, especially in creative fields. When the gargantuan Starrett-Lehigh Building went up in [...]

The venerable city landmark, a star of industrial modernism when it opened, is adding amenities for commercial tenants, especially in creative fields. When the gargantuan Starrett-Lehigh Building went up in [...]

Two of the stations designed by the famed architect more than 100 years ago for the old 'Consolidated' railroad have a chance to be transformed for new uses. The majestically [...]

In a warehouse on Staten Island, the Archdiocese of New York stores altars, statuary and other relics that can be reused in churches around the world. Last-minute Christmas shopping in [...]

A building that is protected from demolition in New York City may seem safe, but decades of neglect and missed opportunities can take a toll. Many New Yorkers assume that [...]

Here are a few historic structures that were demolished and one that was spared after being declared a landmark at the 11th hour. On a triangular site at Greenwich Avenue, [...]

A historic house in Clinton Hill South has been colonized by painters, designers, poets, architects and activists, living and working together. Hidden by overgrown trees and flowering shrubs in need [...]

A railroad trench split the city a century ago, but a new sculptural fence tells the local story from the Indigenous Siwanoy to the rapper Heavy D. A diverse inner [...]

After years of study, the city has declared an emergency to bulldoze most of the buildings on the city's potter's field, without following the usual environmental review process. For more [...]

A history of the many ways the island has been used over the years. 1654 -- Island purchased from Native Americans by the English doctor Thomas Pell. 1864 -- Used [...]

The sculptor, who founded the Whitney Museum, created her own art in studios on Long Island and in Greenwich Village. The future of both is uncertain. The sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt [...]

Local leaders raised the funds, but mysteriously, there was no record of what the battered timepiece looked like when it was installed more than 100 years ago. On a busy [...]

Over 211 years, the Dickey House in Lower Manhattan has survived everything New York City has thrown at it. Soon it will become part of a new home for Public [...]

Preservationists hope to save the 13th Street Repertory Company building, with a little help from the Underground Railroad. When Edith O'Hara, the mother hen and indefatigable leader of the eclectic [...]

The owners sought to replace the name at the pinnacle of the tower with the building's address, but relented in the face of community opposition. For 90 years, the name [...]

Safe houses and other structures used in the fight against slavery were often clandestine, and survivors today can be difficult to document. But there's a 19th-century house in Washington Heights [...]

The Memorial Arch, a granite monument to soldiers and sailors in the plaza, is about to get desperately needed restoration work. In the moments after the Presidential election was called [...]

Remnants of 19th-century Bushwick still exist at the William Ulmer Brewery. A castle-like, two-story office is on the market as residences, while other plans have been stalled by the pandemic. [...]

The ornithologist-painter John James Audubon took flight from Lower Manhattan to escape its 'pestilential vapors.' He landed in the picturesque woodland of the future Washington Heights, changing its landscape forever. [...]

The famed flagship store on Fifth Avenue and 57th Street is undergoing a renovation and is expected to reopen in the spring of 2022. The tony Manhattan boulevard of 57th [...]

A 100th anniversary celebration was planned for this star attraction on the Coney Island boardwalk this year. The owners are determined that it will spin again. Deno's Wonder Wheel, a [...]

A pink brick wall protected the basilica in NoLIta last month during days of civil unrest, just as it did during riots two centuries ago. Early last month, amid protests [...]

An epic preservation battle over two tenement buildings facing York Avenue seems to have been ended by the U.S. Supreme Court. But is it really over? At 55 years old, [...]

Immigrants arriving in New York in the 1870s who were suspected of carrying diseases were isolated and treated on two man-made islands. Anyone who has looked askance at a coughing [...]

In the 1850s, irate locals destroyed the New York Marine Hospital, a Staten Island complex that treated immigrants with diseases like cholera and smallpox. President Trump tweeted in late April [...]

The new building at 74 Grand Street will feature the 1886 front of the previous building on the site -- but, oh, what a trip it's been! After a heavy [...]

Nobody ever accused Rod Kennedy Jr. of thinking too small. A Brooklyn Dodgers fan who took a beating in a Pelham, N. Y., schoolyard in the 1950s defending his team's [...]

Decades-old menus, notes and letters are found in a crawl space just as the new owners are bringing the Brooklyn restaurant back to life. For an individual, it's almost a [...]

The 1907 Tin Building is disassembled and recreated nearby on the Manhattan waterfront. When is a historic old building not a historic old building? When it's a historic new building. [...]

New development threatens views of the Empire State Building from the Flatiron Building. Stand at the lot line on the east side of Fifth Avenue opposite the Empire State Building [...]

To make repairs, Westbury House on Long Island needed a supply of Collyweston slate, but all of the mines had closed decades earlier. Then one reopened. Nobody ever said that [...]

Collectors seek out evocative vestiges of a city that has long been fading away. Some 300 eager collectors descended on a drab hotel conference room in Midtown Manhattan last month [...]

The cast-iron facade of the original Abraham & Straus store in Downtown Brooklyn was saved and attached to the base of a new glass tower. For more than a century, [...]