Articles by Solomon Rokowsky
October 2026
Who Is Buried in Green-Wood Cemetery? A Composer, a Boss and a Butcher
October 2026
Prospect Park: How Olmsted and Vaux Built Brooklyn's Backyard
October 2026
Park Central Hotel: The 1927 Giant Where Two Mob Hits Made History
October 2026
Is the United Nations Headquarters Actually in the United States? Slaughterhouses, Rockefeller and a 39-Story Truce
October 2026
The Bronx Zoo: How a Gilded Age Society Built America's Wildest Classroom
October 2026
The New York Botanical Garden: A Kew-Inspired Dream Built on a Tobacco Mill's Land
October 2026
Who Is Buried in Grant's Tomb? The Monument New York Built for a President
October 2026
The Oculus: The $4 Billion Bird That Rose Over Ground Zero
October 2026
Citi Field: The Queens Ballpark Built to Look Like Brooklyn
October 2026
Macy's Herald Square: How a Dry Goods Shop Became the World's Largest Store
October 2026
The South Street Seaport: From the Street of Ships to the Festival Marketplace and Back
October 2026
Is the New Yankee Stadium on the Same Site as the Old One? The Ballpark That Moved Across the Street
October 2026
The Frick Collection: A Steel Baron's Mansion Built to Become a Museum
October 2026
The Whitney Museum: From West Eighth Street to the Breuer Building to the High Line
October 2026
Is Madison Square Garden Actually at Madison Square? Four Arenas and a Name That Moved
October 2026
Is Washington Square Park Built on a Graveyard? A Potter's Field, a Parade Ground and an Arch
October 2026
The Museum of Modern Art: From Rented Rooms on Fifth Avenue to the 2019 Expansion
October 2026
Lincoln Center: The Neighborhood That Came Down for a Performing Arts Campus
October 2026
Why Is Times Square Called Times Square? The Newspaper, the Subway and the Ball
October 2026
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum: Reflecting Absence in the Twin Towers' Footprints
October 2026
The New York Stock Exchange: From a Buttonwood Tree to George B. Post's Marble Fortress
October 2026
Is the Marquis Theatre the Only Broadway Theater Inside a Hotel? What Was Torn Down to Build It
October 2026
The Ed Sullivan Theater: Hammerstein's Gothic Memorial, CBS Studio 50 and the Late Show Years
October 2026
The Hudson Theatre: Harris's 1903 Playhouse, a TV Studio, a Rock Club and Its Return to Broadway
October 2026
Is the Minskoff Theatre Inside an Office Tower? Hotel Astor, a Zoning Deal and The Lion King
October 2026
The Majestic Theatre: Chanin's "Modern Spanish" House, Home of The Phantom of the Opera for 35 Years
October 2026
The Winter Garden Theatre: A Horse Market Turned Cats, Mamma Mia! and Beetlejuice Theater
October 2026
The Broadway Theatre: Steamboat Willie, Evita and the Colony That Became One of Five Playhouses on Broadway
October 2026
Did the Palace Theatre Really Move? How Broadway's Most Famous Vaudeville House Was Lifted 29 Feet
October 2026
The St. James Theatre: Erlanger's Last Broadway House, Home of The King and I and Hello, Dolly!
October 2026
Why Is the Gershwin Theatre the Biggest on Broadway? From Uris Theatre to Wicked
October 2026
The Lyric Theatre: How the Old Apollo and Lyric Became One Broadway House
October 2026
The New Amsterdam Theatre: Broadway's Oldest Working Theater and the Art Nouveau House Beautiful
October 2026
Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point: A Bronx Landfill, a Nicklaus Course and a Name That Came Off in 2023
October 2026
Did Trump Build Trump Place? The Riverside Boulevard Towers That Dropped His Name
October 2026
Trump Palace: The Upper East Side Tower Built on the Foundling Hospital Site
October 2026
Trump Parc and Trump Parc East: The 1930 Barbizon-Plaza Hotel Trump Bought and Converted
October 2026
Did Trump Build Trump SoHo? The Tower Behind the Dominick Hotel at 246 Spring Street
October 2026
Trump Park Avenue: The 1929 Hotel Delmonico That Trump Bought for $115 Million and Converted
October 2026
Trump Plaza on East 61st Street: The 1984 Tower Trump Sued the Savoy Over
October 2026
Did Donald Trump Build 40 Wall Street? The 1930 Skyscraper That Lost the Height Race to the Chrysler Building
October 2026
Trump International Hotel and Tower: How the Gulf and Western Building Got a Gold-Tinted Skin and a New Address
October 2026
Trump Tower: How a Bonwit Teller Site Became a 58-Story Tower With 68 Floors on Paper
October 2026
Why Did Walter Cronkite Fight Trump World Tower? The Tallest Residential Tower Across From the U.N.
October 2026
The Intrepid: How a Torpedoed WWII Carrier Became Manhattan's Sea, Air and Space Museum
October 2026
What Is the Vessel? A Staircase Sculpture, the Edge Sky Deck and the Rail Yard Under Hudson Yards
October 2026
Coney Island: How a Brooklyn Beach Became America's Playground, From the Cyclone to Nathan's
October 2026
Who Designed Central Park? How Olmsted and Vaux Won a Competition for 843 Acres
October 2026
One World Observatory: How the Tower Got Its 1,776 Feet and What You See From Floors 100 to 102
October 2026
The High Line: How an Abandoned Freight Railway Became a Park in the Sky
October 2026
Who Built Castle Clinton? A Harbor Fort That Became an Opera House, an Immigrant Depot and an Aquarium
October 2026
The American Museum of Natural History: Eighteen Buildings Built Over Sixty Years
October 2026
The Cloisters: How Rockefeller and Barnard Built a Medieval Monastery in Fort Tryon Park
October 2026
Why Is the Guggenheim Museum a Spiral? Wright, Rebay and a Sixteen-Year Wait
October 2026
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Vaux's Gothic Original and Hunt's Beaux-Arts Front
October 2026
Rockefeller Center: How a Failed Opera House Became a City Within the City
October 2026
Ellis Island: How a Fire and a Design Competition Built the Gateway to America
October 2026
The Statue of Liberty: A French Gift That Americans Had to Finish Paying For
October 2026
Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge? How Three Roeblings Finished It
October 2026
The Morris-Jumel Mansion: Manhattan’s Oldest House, from Washington’s Headquarters to City Museum
October 2026
The Hotel Chelsea: From Victorian Cooperative to Artists’ Landmark
October 2026
Radio City Music Hall: How a Failed Opera House Became the Showplace of the Nation
October 2026
The Apollo Theater: From Harlem Burlesque House to Black Music’s Great Stage
October 2026
Fraunces Tavern: The Lower Manhattan House Where Washington Said Farewell
October 2026
Federal Hall: The Greek Revival Custom House on Washington’s Inaugural Site
September 2026
The Manhattan Municipal Building: A Skyscraper Built for City Hall
September 2026
The St. Regis New York: John Jacob Astor’s Fifth Avenue Hotel
September 2026