Before environmental regulation, New York City struggled with severe pollution. The city's coastlines were often the sites of illegal dumping. Pollution regulations began after the Environmental ...

There’s something magnetic about New York City in the 1960s — a mix of grit, style, and restless energy that defined the era and left its mark on every sidewalk and street corner. It was a time of ...

In 1960, a significant mid-air collision occurred over New York City, involving two commercial airliners. The incident took place on December 16th when United Airlines Flight 826, traveling from ...

J. Hoberman is one of our best and most prescient cultural critics — and after a dozen or so books, his latest, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde — Primal Happenings, Underground ...

It was, when it happened, the deadliest disaster in the history of commercial aviation. Two airliners — one, from the aging propeller-driven era; the other, at the forefront of the coming jet age — in ...