The City on Record" uses government records that reveal 400 years of NYC history, from documents showing land transfers in ...

New York City is officially celebrating its 400th birthday in 2025, marking the anniversary of Dutch settlers, in 1625, moving their castle to Indigenous Lenape land in lower Manhattan from what is ...

Weeksville was the second-largest free Black community in the pre-Civil War era, and Mayor Mamdani wants to make sure you ...

Black history is New York City history. Everywhere you look, you see how African Americans helped shape and mold the city. Before the Upper West Side was home to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts ...