“In New York City, you have slums, but they’re not visible,” Basar Girit, a partner at SITU Studio, tells Co.Design. “I think we wanted to bring that to people’s attention,” he says.

One immigrant photographer captured what it was like for New York’s poor during this time, and his images remain arresting today. The Danish-born carpenter Jacob Riis (1849-1914) migrated to the ...

No man in the United States has had more to do with public works than ROBERT MOSES. He has been head of the state park system of New York since 1924, park commissioner of New York City and ...

Museum of the City of New York Now that Riis lives on in the name of a public housing project in a system that comprises the city’s worst current slums, a good case can be made that he went too far.

The suburban dream began, arguably, at the New York World’s Fair of 1939 and ’40. “Highways and Horizons,” better known as “Futurama,” was overwhelmingly the fair’s most popular ...

New York State lawmakers recently agreed on historic affordable housing legislation to protect millions of New York City dwellers. However, a former lawmaker believes the landmark deal would ...

In this gallery, we bring you a glimpse of what life in a New York City tenement looked like. Click on. You may also like: In the 19th century, thousands of people emigrated to the US. In New York ...

In 19th-century New York, even tenements were ranked. Some were considered too good for the Irish, who were relegated to densely packed hovels in the urban shanty town of Five Points, on the Lower ...