Think New York City has always been a glittering metropolis? Think again, with Stacker's look through city records and archives from 100 years ago that reveal a very different New York.

The garden, in the Vale, hasn’t had roses for decades. Now it will become a pollinator garden as part of a $37.5 million ...

Rent strikes have become more common in recent years with all-time high increases and more corporate investing ...

I fell in love with textile art. Above and right: visitors to Judy Chicago’s installation, ‘The Dinner Party’, are greeted by ...

An exhibit at the New York Historical sheds light on an organization that began by serving sailors, women and factory workers ...

The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York’s Explosive ’80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation, and historian ...

On a 20-degree night in February 1969, following a snowstorm that clobbered much of North Dakota, 600 people stood outside the Civic Memorial Auditorium in Fargo, waiting and hoping they'd be lucky ...

The top story in the March 10, 1942 Vancouver Sun was British foreign secretary St Anthony Eden accusing the Japanese army of ...

There's clearly magic at work here, and it keeps sucking me back into the orbit of Deadlock's "Cursed Apple." If you were to ask me, I'd tell you that New York City has always been a touch magical. At ...

Books & the Arts / A new book revisits the public housing programs of the 1930s. Joshua Freeman Today, Mary K. Simkhovitch is little remembered. But in the first half of the 20th century, her name was ...

The "Black Angels" were Black nurses who risked their lives at Staten Island’s Sea View Hospital to fight the tuberculosis epidemic.

Mobsters and gangsters have long been in the public's limelight. There is a unique fascination with them and the massive ...