New York’s history is laid out in its streets. Most of those streets are open to the public. But throughout Manhattan, the city’s oldest borough, you can find private streets that were drawn and ...

Geologic map and sections of Manhattan Island, State of New York (1898) (all images via New York Public Library Map Division) One of the more intriguing items is a geologic map of Manhattan from 1898, ...

This as-told-to story is based on a conversation with Krissy Oechslin. The following has been edited for length and clarity. For years, I wanted to walk every block of a city. In 2012, I read a New ...

Image source: Jenni Sparks We were recently turned on to this very cool hand drawn map of NYC by artist Jenni Sparks. And one of the nice things about it is that it doesn’t just stick to Manhattan, ...

The interactive map documents a 10-fold increase in community land trusts in New York City since the early '90s. (Image courtesy New Economy Project) This is your first of three free stories this ...