Ephemeral New York

The solemn 9/11 memorial hidden behind the corporate office towers of Sixth Avenue in Midtown

Tracking the 19th century granite milestones that marked the distance from City Hall to Upper Manhattan

A two-letter Manhattan phone exchange spotted in Midtown: what does it stand for?

A disappointment to his family, this Gilded Age Vanderbilt heir ended his life in a Broadway hotel

A giant faded ad on an Upper Manhattan tenement is a remnant of a holdout family business

An East Village restaurant’s ghost sign is a relic of the neighborhood’s Italian immigrant past

This Upper East Side Russian Orthodox cathedral has dramatic beauty—and a dramatic backstory

Meet the miniaturist who painted exquisite portraits of the Gilded Age’s best-known characters

Take a walk through the Beatles-inspired co-op on 24th Street that built a Liverpool Street in its lobby

Why the Greek goddess of sacred poetry and music stands tucked behind a fence on the Upper East Side

This sweet 1820s house is a reminder that the Bowery was once a middle-class residential street

The mysterious blocked-off entryways built into a Central Park transverse road

What happened to the flashy amusement park nicknamed the Coney Island of Canarsie?

The faceless men haunting the Third Avenue El in the twilight of the 1930s city