Thomas M c Kean fell in love with the MetroCard over twenty-five years ago and never looked back. In this live, virtual talk ...

At the peak of Horn & Hardart's automat empire, there were more than 40 locations throughout New York City. You won't find ...

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Become a paid member to listen to this article The Cornelius Vanderbilt II Mansion on 57th Street and 5th Avenue, now demolished. Photo from Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit ...

With the exception of the New York City Police Academy, there are no colleges in College Point — and there hasn’t been a college there in decades. This begs the question, why is the neighborhood ...

Gowanus is one of Brooklyn’s more eccentric neighborhoods, with a relatively younger crowd tucked into blocks of industrial properties. Amid former factories and abandoned buildings, there are art ...

Just prior to New York State going on PAUSE for coronavirus, we went to visit Roosevelt Island‘s amazing pneumatic tube trash system. Below the streets, residential garbage is whisked underground and ...

“Automats were right up there with the Statue of Liberty and Madison Square Garden,” Kent L. Barwick, former president of the Municipal Art Society, lamented to the New York Times in 1991 when the ...

You know about armored trucks, but what about an armored subway? From 1951 to 2006, the New York City transit system ran an armored train that moved all the subway and bus fares collected to a secret ...

Ambitious young women of the 20th-century flocked to the intersection of Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street, to The Barbizon Hotel, where they could live out the ultimate New York City dream of ...

Fifth Avenue had a major glow-up in the Gilded Age when it transformed from a pathway called Middle Road to a coveted address nicknamed Millionaire’s Row. A long stretch of the famous thoroughfare, ...