Black history is New York City history. Everywhere you look, you see how African Americans helped shape and mold the city. Before the Upper West Side was home to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts ...

K. Krombie, tour guide at Purefinder and author of Death in New York: History and Culture of Burials, Undertakers and Executions, leads her Death in New York tour stopping at City Hall Park on Oct. 20 ...

In this age where anyone can navigate any city around the globe like a local, with a simple tap of a smart phone, a new exhibition has the viewer step back in time to a far different way of exploring ...

As commodities go, ice is probably not the first that comes to mind. You have a freezer full of it. But in the 19th century, before artificial refrigeration, natural ice was a prized — and costly — ...

In October, the latest battle in a century-long skirmish between the Catskills and New York City over water ended up a win for the upstaters. The New York City Department of Environmental Protection ...

Two years ago, the Adams administration launched its plan called, the "Healthy NYC Plan," with its goal of making healthy ...

In 1796, when slavery remained both legal and common in New York, a white man named Aquila Giles set out to free Hannah, a 30-year-old woman he enslaved, and her daughter, Abigail, who was about 5.