From Paul Revere’s midnight ride and Lewis and Clark’s westward journey, to the creation of Route 66 and the interstate ...

A Dumbo building once part of the Jehovah's Witnesses' large Downtown Brooklyn footprint has sold for $85 million, records show. Midtown-based real estate firm Hubb Properties acquired what's now a 12 ...

A Greek Revival townhouse, the sole survivor of its row, heads to market after over half a century in the same family. A Greek Revival townhouse, the sole survivor of its row, heads to market after ...

Police arrested a teen daredevil seen climbing the cables on the Brooklyn Bridge, police said Wednesday. Travelers across the East River span spotted Mark Orilall, 18, climbing the cables intersecting ...

There have been some questions about other things to do in lower Manhattan when visiting the above sites, but I don't think any of the threads mentioned either of these so they may be of interest. 1.

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Dozens of protesters of the Jewish faith were arrested on Thursday after they chained their arms together and blocked the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge at Tillary Street, to ...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg at her confirmation hearing / R. Michael Jenkins, Congressional Quarterly. Courtesy of the Library of Congress New York is inviting artists to help honor late Supreme Court Justice ...

I am standing astride my bicycle, a sapling in a torrent of traffic, at the spot where Flatbush Avenue angles across Fulton Street. The light changes but my eye drifts up to the towers of Downtown ...

Pennsylvania holds many engineering marvels, but none quite like the Dunlap’s Creek Bridge in Brownsville. This remarkable structure changed American bridge building forever when it opened in 1839.

The days are long but the years are short. It’s a mantra often repeated to the parents of young children. The phrase is especially true if you’re living in a cramped New York City apartment in the ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Multiple people were seen climbing on top of the Brooklyn Bridge on Tuesday afternoon. While some people stood on top of the bridge’s pillar, others moved up and down the ...