In the New Deal era, New York City banned street musicians, classifying them as beggars. Some New Yorkers fought back.

Why is so much of the “public space” in cities actually private, and who benefits from it being that way?

Rumors that enslaved Black New Yorkers were planning a revolt spread across Manhattan even more quickly than fires for which they were being blamed.

The fortunes of Coney Island have waxed and waned, but in the early twentieth century, its amusement parks became a major American export.

Between 1790 and 1860, New York City’s food markets were public, sustained by active government involvement. What happened?

A wave of immigration from eastern and southern Europe transformed urban landscapes, creating crowded tenements that stoked humanitarian concerns.

Published in the East Village from 1968 to 1975, Adventures in Poetry features poems by New York School poets Anne Waldman, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Allen Ginsberg, Bernadette Mayer, and more.

Green-Wood cemetery in New York City is also a site of urban grassland management and restoration, an effort to mitigate its contributions to climate change.

Climate change is transforming the Big Apple. How long will it be until America’s largest city is all but wiped off the map?

The East Village Other, a countercultural newspaper founded in 1965, published interviews with Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg.