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The High Line is urban redevelopment at its creative, nondestructive, value-added best, the city's first elevated park, built on top of a repurposed 1920s-era elevated freight train track, all rusted baroque, that winds through the far west Village, meatpacking district and Chelsea for one and a... more

An accomplished expression of the ideals of the midcentury-hegemonic International Style, and the most expensive office building ever constructed at the time of its opening, the Seagram building is all the more remarkable for having been designed co-operatively by two acclaimed architects, American... more

Most cities don’t have one central, expansive, tranquil and exquisitely maintained park to their name. New York, thankfully, has two, and though Brooklynites who claim this is a suitable replacement for Manhattan’s Central Park may be overstating the case, by nearly any other standard Prospect... more

Built in 1864, The Broken Angel House has been transformed by its owner, artist Arthur Wood (a Brooklyn native), from an ordinary four story tenement building into a public work of art. The building was purchased by Wood in 1972, for a mere $2,000. Wood envisioned the building as a 100 foot... more

The most accomplished structure to be built in midtown Manhattan's post-9/11 building boom, the Hearst Tower, designed by Norman Foster, is a stunning, irregularly-shaped glass-and-steel high-rise built on top of the original, six-story stone corporate headquarters. That building was designed to... more

To call the Bronx Zoo renowned could be an understatement; it might be the most famous zoo in the world--and deservedly so. There are zoos that surpass this one (though just barely) in terms of scale and depth and breadth of holdings, but none suggest the nineteenth century naturalist and... more