The street co-naming honors the life of the Zen master who once lived and studied on the same block of West 109th Street.

On July 4, 1817, a shovel full of dirt, dug in Rome, marked the start of the original Erie Canal. It was officially completed ...

For decades the world lived on typewriters. A product of the 18th century, modern technology gave us computers, and the ...

New York City's subway map, famous but illegible to tourists, has finally been redesigned. The new map is much like one ...

A patron saw the beauty in graffiti when most of the world thought it was mere nuisance. Now the writing (of Lee Quiñones, ...