AD joins Robert Garneau of Architecture Workshop PC in Manhattan, NYC, to tour a 1920s apartment brimming with sleek designs and space-saving innovations. “We wanted to maintain its rich…
New York in 1920s, the jazz, commerce, and culture flourished. The city boasted nearly six million residents and served as a booming center for immigrants and migrants entering the through…
One of the world's most famous skyscrapers has just been through a major 10-year modernisation project. See New York City's 1930s icon has been updated for the modern age.
Originally created in the mid-1990s, the Heritage Trails were a set of self-guided sightseeing locations in Lower Manhattan that included information you could read about each landmark and…
Video artist Nelson Sullivan went everywhere and filmed just about everything downtown in the 1980s. In this recently uploaded video from the 5 Ninth Avenue Project — the NYU-run YouTube…
Video artist Nelson Sullivan went everywhere and filmed just about everything downtown in the 1980s. In this recently uploaded video from the 5 Ninth Avenue Project — the NYU-run YouTube…
In the 1920s, New York City faced a capacity crisis at Penn Station, leading the New Jersey legislature to form the North Jersey Transit Commission. Their 1926 report advocated for "through…
Looking strangely out of place on 42nd Street, this is Grand Central Station (formerly Terminal) in the early 1900s, after a renovation of the original 1871 structure—which had become too…
Video artist Nelson Sullivan went everywhere and filmed just about everything downtown in the 1980s. In this video from the 5 Ninth Avenue Project — the NYU-run YouTube channel that is…
A tunnel between Brooklyn and the Battery in Lower Manhattan was one of several traffic-relief projects in the late 1930s conceived by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia to remedy vehicular…