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Gage & Tollner opened in 1879 in downtown Brooklyn, arguably the borough's oldest restaurant and bar, but closed in 2004 when a T.G.I. Friday took over its space. But this isn't that particular NYC gentrification s...

The celebration continues for this weekend's monumental World Cup win by the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team. With a 2-0 victory over the Netherlands on Sunday, it took Mayor Bill de Blasio only a few minutes after t...

Since the news broke that the iconic White Horse Tavern has been sold, preservation groups are urging the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) to make the bar’s interior an official NYC landmark.  This unusual reque...

Talk about fancy! History buffs who also happen to be millionaires, this dream home is made for you! The Upper East Side townhouse was once the home to Eleanor Roosevelt from 1953-1958. She lived and entertained here,...

The latest mural to take over the Bowery Wall was created by Tats Cru and pays homage to much of the area’s history, as well as the wall itself. Tats Cru’s mural is a collage of the Lower East Side’s roots. There’s a d...

Toward the end of 2018, the Brooklyn Museum announced they would be opening an exhibition dedicated to the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo early this year; and now the time has come.  The exhibit, titled Frida Kahlo: Appear...

The NYC Municipal Archives Online Gallery provides access to hundreds of thousands of digitized materials from the Municipal Archives. This includes photographs, maps, motion-pictures and audio recordings. A few months...

For the past 41 years, Cornelia Street Cafe has lived in the Greenwich Village as a gathering place for so many artists. Now increasing rent prices are driving them out as it has so many small businesses across the city...

The oldest known photograph of New York City is a daguerrotype—a common early photo process used to make images publicly available—which is believed to have been taken in 1848.  It may be hard to imagine, but the photo...

One man, Matt Green, has spent nearly seven years walking every block of New York City's five boroughs—and it's now a movie called The World Before Your Feet. The film explores over five years of Green's journey, but t...