After learning photography in Paris, Berenice Abbott began documenting New York City in the early 1930s, tracking changes in its boroughs as part of an effort that would become "Changing New York." ...

Since 1934, the train station St. John’s Terminal helped shape New York City as we recognize it today. Presently situated at the end of the High Line, which was then an operational elevated freight ...

"A mural renaissance swept the United States in the 1930s, propelled by the New Deal Federal Art Project and the popularity of Mexican muralism. Perhaps nowhere more than in New York City, murals ...

Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, Vol. 49, No. 4, Special Issue: High Society from a Global Perspective: Mass Media and Social Transformation in the Twentieth Century (2024), ...

The federal gambling indictments indicate the New York mafia may be more powerful than experts previously believed.