New York City

<p><span class="deck">How a mass killing 150 years ago made today’s New York a better place</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">One of America’s greatest documentary filmmakers takes on America’s greatest city: Ric Burns discusses his new PBS series, <span class="typestyle"><em> New York</em>.</span></span></p>

<p><span class="deck">On Manhattan’s Lower East Side, you can visit a haunting re-creation of a life that was, at once, harder and better than we remember.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Martin Scorsese has drawn on his own youth and his feelings about the past, and has rebuilt 1860s New York, to make a movie about the fight for American democracy. Here, he tells why it is both so hard and so necessary to get history on film.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Politics</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The city of the departed Dodgers, of Henry Ward Beecher, Walt Whitman, and Coney Island, is ready for its next act as a world-class tourist destination.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A novelist's meditation on discovering what a particular time in Harlem says about the whole nation</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A never-before-seen report reveals just how fragile our great cities were, and remain.</span></p>

<p>How lucky to have Central Park as your back yard</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Theodore Roosevelt, his widow recalled, watched Lincoln’s funeral from his grandfather’s house</span> </span></p>

<p>The British seize Manhattan from the Dutch in 1664 — and alter the trajectory of North American history.</p>

<p>Newsboys in antebellum New York and elsewhere were embroiled in all the major conflicts of their day, becoming mixed metaphors for enterprise and annoyance. </p>

<p>The World Trade Center attack wasn’t the first time New York was brutally assaulted — 225 years before, George Washington watched the city burn from his headquarters in northern Manhattan after painful military defeats.</p>

<p>“I will leave this house only if I am dead,” the prominent New York doctor told his ex-wife, who was seeking half the value of their Manhattan townhouse in a divorce.</p>

<p>Caught between his campaign for president and his duties as governor, FDR navigated political pressures to force the resignation of New York City’s corrupt mayor, Jimmy Walker.</p>