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 ...

Dr. Jackson is a professor emeritus of history at Columbia University, president emeritus of the New-York Historical Society and the editor in chief of both editions of The Encyclopedia of New York ...

Today, December 13, marks an important, yet sobering, moment in New York history: it’s the day the New York City Council passed a law to create the city’s first slave market. By the time the Council ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Melissa is a writer based in Brooklyn. Popular understanding of New York history is about to get even more robust, with three new ...

New York is one of the most significant historical cities in the U.S. However, there's a lot of unsettling and disturbing history that stands in the state — history that many people are unaware of.

Learn more about the birth of the New York Rangers, from the Original Six era, to some legendary Blueshirts, and stars that ...

April in Paris has nothing on May in New York. Spring happens to the city as everything happens here: not at all, then all at once. The forsythia skims the crosstown buses as they swerve through ...