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Tour Highlights: Explore the real life NYC locations featured in author Colson Whitehead's Harlem Trilogy mystery novels Walk from Kleindeutschland to Loisaida to Alphabet City and learn how redevelopment led to gentrification and displacement in these neighborhoods Dive into the enduring downtown art scene, as fictionally depicted by Whitehead and as New Yorkers experience it in the present day Learn about the making and unmaking of the West Side Highway Follow the rise and fall of Radio Row...

Tour Highlights: Get a behind-the-scenes look at the planning and placemaking strategies that have shaped Union Square’s public art scene Explore Union Square’s newest public artwork, alongside an interactive, multi-media lineup of sculptures, asphalt artwork, and digital art through augmented reality Discover how Union Square’s history, culture, and context inspire the artwork’s form, content, and experience Learn about the emerging and established artists who have shared their work with the...

Secrets of NYC Become a paid member to listen to this article 888 Madison Avenue may look like it was built for a 19th-century railroad tycoon, but it is actually a 21st century construction. Standing at the corner of Madison Avenue and 72nd Street, this Beaux-Arts building opened as a flagship location for Ralph Lauren in 2010. It stands on the same plot as a lost Vanderbilt home and complements an extant Gilded Age mansion right across the street (also a Ralph Lauren store).

Become a paid member to listen to this article For the nation's 250th anniversary, a handful of museums and libraries in New York City are digging into their archives and pulling out some of the most rare and important documents related to the country's founding. Chief among those documents are copies of the Declaration of Independence.

Become a paid member to listen to this article Every day, New Yorkers pass by a relic of the Revolutionary War without giving it a second glance. On Duane Street, embedded into the wall of the NYPD Headquarters is (supposedly) a prison window dating back to 1763. The window is purported to be a vestige of the haunted Rhinelander (originally Cuyler) Sugar House prison used during the British occupation of New York from 1776 to 1783. There is some controversy over this widely accepted story though.

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Become a paid member to listen to this article You don't need to travel to Virginia to see a forgotten Revolutionary War battlefield, to Newport to see an enormous Gilded Age mansion, or upstate to see an abandoned fairground from the 1960s. It's all right here in New York City.

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Event Highlights: Hear the Arcadia Symphony New York, an internationally acclaimed ensemble, perform works from Beethoven, Gerswhin, and Copland at the gala celebration concert, America's 250th at Carnegie Hall Witness the Carnegie premiere of Gershwin’s You Are My Rhapsody in Blue, and Aldo Finzi’s Holocaust masterpiece Salmo Hear from a surprise VIP guest Interior Photo Courtesy of Carnegie Hall Things to Know: Registration through Untapped New York is required to secure a free ticket.

Tour Highlights: Be one of the first to experience the very first exhibition, Democracy Matters, inside the Klingenstein Family Gallery at the newly opened Tang Wing for American Democracy See items from The Historical’s renowned collections of art and historical objects including Norman Rockwell’s World War II-era Four Freedoms posters, a New York printing of the Declaration of Independence, George Washington’s inaugural armchair, and much more Discover how the concept of democracy has...