Human Interest

Longleaf pine lumber, which once buttressed the warehouses of TriBeCa and bore the weight of Brooklyn’s waterfront depots, is being reclaimed as the city’s factories are converted.

Gothamist Roaming The Forbidden Zones With NYC's Young Urban Explorers Gothamist Since he quit taking film classes, the 23-year-old Brooklyn native and former skateboarder spends almost all of his free time accessing rooftops, subway tunnels,...

In cocktail bars, immersive theater companies and private clubs across the city, New Yorkers are keeping the decadent era alive.

Easter Sunday, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, 1913
(By The Library of Congress) pic.twitter.com/GQXo8Y7eLO

From the Times Square of old to a Queens diner made famous by Goodfellas, New York City was once synonymous with neon signs – now they are nearly impossible to find

In the years since he started photographing forgotten tombs, theaters, and asylums, Will Ellis has gotten used to rising early and staying out late. Those are, after all, the best times to trespass without being detected. But we’re still a bit bleary-eyed when we meet him outside the subway station...

Gregory Berg, a New York City photographer who has 5,000 followers on Instagram, said that fear of being shocked by the subway's third rail or hit by a passing train is 'only mental'.

The combined forces of technology and recession on subway station agent booths.

A look back at one of the first failed preservation efforts in newly preservation-minded 1960s New York.