The “Honorable William Wall” is the floating clubhouse of Manhattan Sailing Club

The “Honorable William Wall” is the floating clubhouse of Manhattan Sailing Club.The clubhouse is anchored from May through October,in New York Harbor just north of Ellis Island. This location offers panoramic views of the sailboat races and skyline. The clubhouse serves as both a spectator platform for race watching, and an educational center for teaching sailing as well as an event space for corporate and member parties.

Everyone needs a little down time even a horse

A farm in upstate Monticello has become for New York’s working equines a place to kick off their horseshoes and frolic freely at the Central Park carriage-horse version of Cancun. Union rules require that Central Park carriage horses receive a mandatory five-week vacation. The current crop of Central Park horses also get to play with [...]

High Line’s set to open new addition

When the High Line opened in 2009, the elevated oasis was hailed as Manhattan’s biggest gift of green space since the creation of Central Park in 1857.The next phase of the High Line is set to open in the next couple of weeks . The new extension will extend the short park by 10 blocks to West 30th Street,

Central Park Conservatory Garden

The Conservatory Garden was requisitioned in 1934 by City Parks Comissioner Robert Moses, the garden was completed only in the mid-1980s. Its gates originally belonged to the Cornelius Vanderbilt mansion, razed in 1927, which stood on Fifth Avenue near Grand Army Plaza.

From the City that never sleeps to the city of sheep

Times Square is hosting a 9-foot tall bronze mouse and a flock of paper sheep giving tourists something more to flock too. The new art installation, coincides with the beginning of the Armory Show,and was unveiled Tuesday on the Broadway plazas between West 45th and 47th streets.

The Soho Playhouse

the newly renovated SoHo Playhouse continues to serve the downtown theater community as an historic 199 seat Off Broadway venue. The Huron Club below is an intimate 55 seat cabaret and bar steeped in the history of Old New York.

MAFIA Walking Tour

This tour examines the birth of organized crime in America and provides insight into the often overlooked very early days of the nation’s criminal heavyweights.

Metlife Tower in New York City

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Building, also referred to as the Metlife Tower, was the tallest building in New York for four years, from 1909 to 1913. Today it reminds us of the grandeur and opulence that were so often associated with the early twentieth century New York City. The interesting thing is that the [...]

84th Annual Feast of San Gennaro

Come mid-September and the streets of Little Italy will burst forth in colors green, white and red. There will be banners and festive arches as far as your eyes will be able to see and the whole area will pulsate with excitement and life. Restaurants will roll out the red carpet for those who are [...]

African Burial Ground

As Edward Rothstein, correspondent for NY Times put it, “Cemeteries are at least as much for the living as the dead. They are the locus of tribute and memory; they affirm connections to a place and its past.” In 1991 a chance incident, a pure accident revealed a site that was later given the title [...]