New York City Archives

New York City

Stonewall at Fifty

by Alexander Chee, T Cooper, Garth Greenwell, Eileen Myles, Darryl Pinckney, Brontez Purnell, Michelle Tea, T Kira Madden,

Early in the morning on June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street, the city’s most popular gay bar. The police had raided Stonewall…

Investigating Hate

by Kathy Dobie,

Inside New York City’s task force on bias

Certain Certainties

by Kevin Baker,

What Amazon HQ2 means for New York City

The Death of a Once Great City

by Kevin Baker,

The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence

The Death of New York City

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Kevin Baker, Jeremiah Moss

In this inaugural episode of The Harper’s Podcast, Kevin Baker and Jeremiah Moss discuss the decline of New York City

Slice of History

by Julia Wertz,

The story behind Ray's Pizza

Inside the April Issue

by James Marcus,

Leslie Jamison on the Women's March, Alan Feuer on Bill de Blasio, Yascha Mounk on the refugee crisis in Germany, and Jessica Weisberg on Tokyo's exclusion of immigrants

On the Border

by Jason Novak,

The story of a Tibetan refugee living in California, as told to the illustrator

Theaters of Manhattan and Brooklyn, Then and Now

by Julia Wertz,

Illustrations of theater buildings in New York City, as they appeared between 1910 and today

Untitled

by Maria Lassnig,

Untitled, c. 1979, a watercolor by Maria Lassnig, whose work is on view at Petzel, in New York City. Artwork © Maria Lassnig Foundation. Courtesy Petzel, New York City

The Rainmaker’s Flood

by Jennifer Kabat,

The quest to control the weather