Places to Visit

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.

New York’s streets hold a secret: dozens of hidden courtyards, cobblestoned mews, and private lanes tucked away in plain sight. Here’s how to find them.

The Brooklyn Flea started with 50 vendors in a Fort Greene parking lot in 2008. Sixteen years later, it’s New York’s most beloved weekend ritual — and the reason thousands of New Yorkers take the subway somewhere on a Saturday morning.

On December 31, 1897, Brooklynites held a funeral procession as their city was absorbed into New York. The story of how Brooklyn lost its independence — and why its identity only grew stronger.

In 1983, a Manhattan church became the Limelight — New York’s wildest nightclub. The building is still there, and the story is extraordinary.

New York’s iconic fire escapes were built as a quick fix and were never meant to stay. Here’s the story of how they became part of the city’s identity.

The knish arrived in pushcarts on the Lower East Side over a century ago. Today it is still made by hand in the same corner of Manhattan. Here is its story.

The Bronx was once written off by the world. Here’s the real story of what it kept, what it built, and why the rest of New York is finally catching up.