Brother, can you spare a dime? -- The little flower and Goliath -- Trouble in the streets -- 'I can't figger what dis city is comin' to' -- All that jazz -- Gotham gets a facelift -- The thing about ...

After learning photography in Paris, Berenice Abbott began documenting New York City in the early 1930s, tracking changes in its boroughs as part of an effort that would become "Changing New York." ...

"A mural renaissance swept the United States in the 1930s, propelled by the New Deal Federal Art Project and the popularity of Mexican muralism. Perhaps nowhere more than in New York City, murals ...

Since 1934, the train station St. John’s Terminal helped shape New York City as we recognize it today. Presently situated at the end of the High Line, which was then an operational elevated freight ...

New York City’s modern-day subway system earns its fair share of complaints on a daily basis. That being said, the Big Apple’s favorite transportation-centric archive has figured out a way to dispel ...

Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, Vol. 49, No. 4, Special Issue: High Society from a Global Perspective: Mass Media and Social Transformation in the Twentieth Century (2024), ...

Nearly a century after the New York subway introduced its iconic "R1-9" fleet, the agency is putting some of the railcars back into service -- and city residents are jumping on board. The Metropolitan ...

The federal gambling indictments indicate the New York mafia may be more powerful than experts previously believed.