The cluster of traditional wood and stone buildings on the edge of the city was a famous Confucian school that trained Government Officials during the Joseon Dynasty.
Shop Life, the latest exhibit at the Tenement Museum of New York City shows how the times changed on the Lower East Side through the life of four businesses.
Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue (between Washington Square North and 124th Street in Harlem) made the list of 2012 Great Places in America, posted by the American Planning Association (APA).
Safeguarding historic buildings from disrepair and development has fallen on the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) since 1965, but the battle over the buildings is intensifying.
About 80 years after many of the images were captured, Miriam Berman opened one of those shoe boxes. It was then that her love of the Flatiron area truly developed and her life changed.
New York City’s Historic Districts Council (HDC), an organization that advocates for preservation in the city, asked New Yorkers to nominate neighborhoods as top priorities for preservation.