In the 1970s and ’80s, New York’s streets and subways were plagued with persistent crime. Then the city came back to life.

“There, suddenly, as a poem or an essay opens itself to the mind, the Gotham Book Mart opens into its backyard cloister of ...

In 2014, New York state declined to celebrate its own 350th anniversary. It was a strange decision considering the memorializing fervor elsewhere: Seven years earlier, the U.S. Mint had observed ...

Although technical details on some of the engineering feats are sparse, and the book could use some better maps, Designing Gotham, a volume in the LSU Press series “Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions ...

Leah Williams and Haining take the trio from fighting cowboys to fighting aliens ...