New York City
The World’s Fastest Animal Takes New York
The peregrine falcon, whose salvation began 40 years ago, commands the skies above the Empire State Building
December 10, 2009 |
By Meera Subramanian
Hazel Scott’s Lifetime of High Notes
She began her career as a musical prodigy and ended up breaking down racial barriers in the recording and film industries
October 16, 2009 |
By Karen Chilton
Teaching Cops to See
At New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Amy Herman schools police in the fine art of deductive observation
October 2009 |
By Neal Hirschfeld
Harlem Transformed: the Photos of Camilo José Vergara
For decades, the photographer has documented the physical and cultural changes in Harlem and other American urban communities
June 02, 2009 |
By Jamie Katz
Weegee's Day at the Beach
For the noir photographer Weegee, bathers at Coney Island had another kind of gritty reality
June 2009 |
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Celebrity Portraitist Gerard Malanga
An associate of Andy Warhol, Gerard Malanga reflects on his subjects and his career as a photographer
April 14, 2009 |
By Jeff Campagna
You got a problem with that?
Why do New Yorkers seem rude? A noted critic and essayist has a few ideas
May 2008 |
By Joan Acocella
"It Felt Like a Real Discovery"
Six decades after the death of an unheralded New York City municipal photographer, a researcher stumbles upon his forgotten negatives
September 2007 |
By Carolyn Kleiner Butler
Five Years Later
Tourists flock to the World Trade Center site, but for New Yorkers, 9/11 is history.
September 2006 |
By Pete Hamill
Uncovering the History of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The author behind the authoritative retelling of the 1911 fire describes how he researched the tragedy that killed 146 people
August 2006 |
By David von Drehle
Christo Does Central Park
After a quarter century's effort, the wrap artist and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, blaze a saffron trail in New York City
February 2005 |
By Amei Wallach
Subway Spy
Walker Evans' underground-breaking photographs resurface for the centennial of New York City's rapid transit system
November 2004 |
By Terence Monmaney
September 11 From a Brooklyn Rooftop
Photographer Alex Webb captured a moment that showed, he says, the "continuity of life in the face of disaster"
September 2003 |
By Paul Maliszewski
Manhattan Bound
A new book of photographs by octogenarian Helen Levitt charts her amused view of an ever-evolving New York
April 2003 |
By Molly Roberts
Manhattan Mayhem
Martin Scorsese's realistic portrayal of pre-Civil War strife Gangs of New York re-creates the brutal street warfare waged between immigrant groups
December 2002 |
By Fergus M. Bordewich
Coming Up Harlem
A revival of the fabled New York community inspires pride and controversy
November 2002 |
By Peter Hellman
Boss
The New York City courthouse that caused his downfall has been returned to its former glory, and William Marcy Tweed's odious reputation has lately been refurbished as well
February 2002 |
By Jonathan Kandell
