Author name: lovenewyork

Most people who cross the Brooklyn Bridge don’t know the name Emily Warren Roebling. They should. For eleven years, she ran the construction that her husband couldn’t — and history nearly forgot her.

The Strand Bookstore has 18 miles of books and has survived floods, Amazon, and COVID. The story of New York’s most beloved bookstore — and why it keeps coming back.

There is a store on your corner. It opens before you wake up and stays lit long after you go to sleep. It knows your order without you saying a word. It has a cat. It sells lottery tickets, fresh-cut flowers, and the best bacon egg and cheese sandwich you will ever eat. It is …

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Step onto 47th Street in Midtown Manhattan and you enter a world where handshakes close million-dollar deals and an ancient trust still runs the diamond trade — one of New York’s most extraordinary untold stories.

Williamsburg, Brooklyn was once one of New York’s most abandoned neighborhoods. Then artists arrived, the hipsters followed, and the whole world came running. Here’s how it all happened.

The Flatiron Building was called unsafe, ugly, and scandalous when it opened in 1902. Here’s how New York fell in love with the building it once wanted gone.

The Apollo Theater’s Amateur Night has made and broken music careers for 90 years. Ella Fitzgerald won here in 1934. The Jackson 5 played here. The Sandman is still sweeping performers off the stage.

Below Grand Central Terminal, a sealed presidential train platform, a whispering gallery, and a backwards star ceiling reveal secrets most visitors never know exist.

A hidden garden in Central Park has been growing every plant Shakespeare ever mentioned since 1916 — and most New Yorkers have never found it.