The clash between big business elites and green-seeking environmentalists is not a 21st century development. Back in 1974, plans to turn Manhattan’s West Side into Westway, a waterfront…
There’s a 550-foot skyscraper in Lower Manhattan with no windows, no logos, and no obvious purpose. Officially, it was built in the 1970s as a telecom switching hub—but behind its Brutalist…
This video sheds light on 33 Thomas Street in Manhattan, a towering, windowless brutalist building initially constructed in the late 1960s as a highly secure telecommunications hub for…
A recent article on Future Travel explores how the Manhattan neighborhood of Tribeca has changed over the past hundred years through side-by-side photographs comparing the same vantage…
From Casey Neistat to Greta Gerwig, 368 Broadway launched the careers of many of NYC's most successful filmmakers. This summer, I researched the story behind the storied building. My…
The pristine restoration of this Italianate loft building in Tribeca shows meticulous work by a team of preservation professionals. They succeeded in a minimally invasive scope of work that…
YouTuber and local explorer actionkid105 recently filmed a POV video of him walking from Astoria, Queens to Randalls and Wards Islands across the Robert F. Kennedy (Triborough) Bridge. Check…
One Hundred Barclay is an Art Deco architectural classic skyscraper in Tribeca. Once housing different telecommunications companies, the building has recently been converted into luxury…
Captured by the U.S. Army Air Service on May 26, 1926, this incredible aerial photograph shows Lower Manhattan, New York Harbor, the Hudson and East Rivers, Governors Island, and bits of…
This great vintage film from 1911 shows street scenes from SoHo, TriBeCa, Union Square, Flatiron District, Civic Center, and more. While the color and sound are not original, they were added…
