In a photograph taken today by a helicopter belonging to New York City's local CBS radio station, WCBS, you can just feel the frigidity in the air. The snow in the park, the steam from the…
Everybody hates trekking out to La Guardia or JFK. It takes forever, there are limited transportation methods you can use to get there, and it is just the wrong way to start or end a trip.…
Times Square's Midnight Moment is an art initiative by Times Square Arts in which all of the billboards in Times Square synchronize to show an audio/visual art piece at exactly 11:57pm…
The original Pennsylvania Station was a historic railroad station, opened in 1910 and demolished a short 54 years later. Its grandeur matched or exceeded that of Grand Central Terminal, and…
Ephemeral New York is a site that seeks to chronicle "an ever-changing city through faded and forgotten artifacts." In a recent post, the site shows a vintage postcard showing a colorized…
Which books were the most popular in New York City last year? The New York Public Library culled all of its brances and compiled a list of the top 10 books checked out in the year. The New…
The original Pennsylvania Station was a historic railroad station, opened in 1910 and demolished a short 54 years later. Its grandeur matched or exceeded that of Grand Central Terminal, and…
Hidden underground, the trains of New York's Penn Station are often forgotten, yet move half a million people in and out of the City each day. In this video from PBS' American Experience,…
One 57 is a 90-story supertall built by Extell development on "Billionaires Row", the section of 57th Street in Midtown that sits South of Central Park. Upon completion in 2014, it was the…
A recent article in The Verge investigates why New York City's Penn Station is so bad, why people hate it so much, and what can be done about it in the future. Today, Penn Station is more…
![New York City's Dream Airport | A spread from the March 18, 1946 issue of Life Magazine for a "$3 billion project [that] would place a landing deck in midtown Manhattan," proposed by William Zeckendorf.
This is two images stitched together crudely. Originals found at <a href="http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2010/02/rootop-airport-east-river-nyc.html" rel="nofollow">Ptak Science Books</a>.](https://cdn.viewing.nyc/assets/media/76a2cc64bf5f523ad0088e5931f87ea2/elements/ae399a787e3a7cbef0b85c073932a42e/xs/ee880253-5808-4cdf-bd37-81d291b6a417_2x.jpg)
