There are buildings that become symbols of a city not because they are the tallest or the most expensive, but because they look completely unlike anything around them. The Flatiron…

A surprising number of New Yorkers get tripped up by the geography behind the name Long Island City. Here’s the context: New York City spans dozens of islands (around 40),…

Long Island now and 13 years ago, and it’s the fastest growing borough in New York City today. 📍 Long Island City, New York

It’s impossible not to guess the city… This photo was taken on July 9, 1988,incidentally, not from New York, but from the neighboring state of New Jersey. Photo by Jeffrey…

Brighton Beach is a completely different New York, where Cyrillic letters cover storefront signs, Russian and Ukranian speech fills the streets. The area has long been nicknamed “Little Odessa,” as…

A beautiful visualization of New York City subway traffic in September 2025. The author of the project used an average Wednesday, during which 4.3 million trips were made. The size…

Church of Heavenly Rest Café is the name of a café located directly inside an active church on the corner of Fifth Avenue, one block from the Guggenheim Museum, with…

Domino Park is an 11-acre waterfront park on the East River in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Rusty industrial structures more than a century old stand here, hipsters stroll, children play, and artists…

The High Line is a park built on an abandoned freight railway in New York City. What makes it especially fascinating is that it runs 9 meters above the streets…

It turns out that the headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses (also known as Jehovah’s Witnesses) was located for over 100 years in one of the most prestigious parts of Brooklyn: Brooklyn…