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Sailor’s Snug Harbor was founded on Staten Island in 1808 by Captain Robert Richard Randall. At the time of its opening, in 1833, Sailor’s Snug was the only home exclusively for retired merchant seamen in the entire U.S. By 1900 it housed approximately 1,000 retired sailors. However, in 1976,... more

Like his “Earth Room,” Walter De Maria’s “Broken Kilometer” -- an installation of 500 polished brass rods, each two meters in length, laid out in five columns of one hundred rods each across the floor of a West Broadway loft – performs less as a work of art than a reflective conceptual... more

A striking, full-block, Neo-Gothic fortress planted on New York's architecturally staid Upper East Side, the Seventh Regiment Armory (sometimes known as the Park Avenue Armory) is now a multi-purpose public facility and event space. As New York's most famous standing armory, the Seventh Regiment... more

A life-size diorama, the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site, on Gramercy's East 20th Street, is a recreation of the childhood home of the man who became America's 26th president. (The original structure burnt down in 1916, but the house was rebuilt in 1923 and refurnished with... more

Le Corbusier called this the most beautiful bridge in the world, and though most New Yorker's wouldn't rush to dispute him, they don't exactly take the time to admire the structure, either--and certainly not with the lavish praise they lap on the Brooklyn Bridge. If that structure is the... more

In the middle of the nineteenth century, when Central Park was being designed and built, New York (which stretched in recognizable, urban form only as far north as fortieth street) was caught in the throes of milk panic. Milksellers and customers alike had a difficult time distinguished tainted... more