NEW YORK — Julian Hunt went to see the High Line Park in New York City’s West Side before it was even open. Hunt, a D.C. architect, made the trip as part of a painstaking labor of love. For ...

NEW YORK — Billowing rain clouds were closing in as I hurried along West 30th Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. Ahead, I could see the outline of the High Line, an elevated park ...

A new exhibit at the New York Transit Museum’s Grand Central Gallery Annex, titled “7 Train: Minutes to Midtown,” covers more than 100 years of the borough’s first subway line.

For almost a century, trains of the New York Central Railroad plowed along Manhattan's 10th and 11th avenues, crossing streets, interrupting traffic, and maiming and killing pedestrians along the way.

Part of the three-and-a-half-mile abandoned rail line in southern and central Queens that was operated by the Long Island Rail Road until the early 1960s.