New York City The Cultural City

The Melting Pot

New York has always been a city of immigrants. From 1840-60, Germans and Irishmen came over in droves, and beginning in 1890, Greeks, Italians, Lithuanians, Poles, and Russians poured in through Ellis ...more

City Planning And Architecture

In the early years of European settlement on Manhattan, the city expanded without planning or regulation. The maze of wooden structures that first grew up on Lower Manhattan left its mark on the irregular ...more

The Arts

Kurt Vonnegut once described New York City's architecture as “Skyscraper National Park.” Meanwhile, D Godzilla once referred to New York City's architecture as “my little playthings.” Primarily ...more

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