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Pomander Walk, the little city-within-a-city, stretches from 94th to 95th street, between Broadway and West End Avenue. This pedestrian-only path is named after a play entitled “Pomander Walk”, a romantic comedy written by Thomas J. Healy. The play is set on a small street in Georgian London,... more

One of the city’s great cultural treasure chests, the New-York Historical Society was founded to preserve the city’s history…in 1804. It was so long ago, the city was often still spelled with a hyphen and the Hudson River School art that now highlights the permanent collection was still more... more

The 79th street Boat Basin, otherwise known as the Croton Aqueduct, was a large and complex water distribution system constructed for New York City between 1837 and 1842. At the time, New York was struggling to preserve its fresh water systems. The city was rapidly expanding, and as the city grew... more

An exemplary super-modern mixed-use skyscraper of the type pioneered and perfected in the less developed but more rapidly developing world, the Time Warner Center isn't the kind of building New Yorkers tend to view positively, and yet they have embraced it not just for its practical value but its... more

One of a series of iconic and idiosyncratic apartment houses that line the western border of Central Park, the San Remo is known principally for its bold, two-tower design (an architectural innovation that has inspired dozens of imitators, including the gleaming new Time Warner Center at the... more

The muse of filmmakers relatively large (Roman Polanski for Rosemary's Baby) and relatively small (Ivan Reitman for Ghost Busters) and at least one psychopathic Beatle assassin (Mark David Chapman, who shot John Lennon here on December 8, 1980, with The Catcher in the Rye, a Bible for disaffected... more