Now a ruin, the Gothic Revival Smallpox Hospital was designed by James Renwick Jr., the architect of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and opened in 1856, on what then was Blackwell’s Island.
Did you know? The City Hall Library opened in 1913 and was part of the New York Public Library until 1969.
"The unevenness of the menu seems to arise from an impulse to make everything seasonal, even if it doesn’t suit the dish." Read more.
Did you know? The Sailor's Snug Harbor fence, completed in 1845, was designed by Frederick Diaper, who used the Cumberland Gates in Hyde Park, London, as his inspiration.
Check out the sunny sky any day at the Queens Plaza station. The glass mosaics on the mezzanine walls depict the actual City skyline as seen from Queens. The sun marks the location of the former WTC.
City Hall was constructed from 1803-1812 and is a designated New York City landmark, and its rotunda is a designated interior landmark.
Did you know? The Canal Street A, C, E station contains 174 grackles and blackbirds and 7 crows that are all made out of bronze and are set on railings throughout the station.
Originally named the Blackwell’s Island Bridge, the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge opened to traffic in 1909 and is the longest of the East River Bridges.
The 26th Street Viewing Spur is an illuminated steel frame that evokes the advertising billboards that were attached to the High Line after the freight trains stopped running.
Did you know? In 1687, Leffert Pietersen, one of the earliest European settlers in Brooklyn, built the original homestead on 58 acres that is now Prospect Lefferts Gardens.
Did you know? Decades ago, the High Line continued farther south, through factories and warehouses, to St. John’s Park Terminal, at Spring Street.
(3/20/13) SAVE 92Y TRIBECA -- A call for the 92Y to reconsider its decision and maintain 92Y Tribeca, from Richard Brody: Read more.
"The menu has a post-Rainbow Room retro eye and a modern sensibility: there are six champagne cocktails, and a soulful King’s Old-Fashioned is rounded out with a wet walnut." Read more.
"There’s a dessert you’ll wish Häagen-Dazs would put in a tub: a blueberry-and-wintergreen sorbet, swirled with corn ice cream, rife with chunks of blueberry cookie dough." Read more.
9/23/13: On “Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938”: “His radical use of language and his transposition of the banal and the unnerving set a precedent.” Sept. 28-Jan. 12 Read more.
