Kingston's 300 Years

“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.

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.

A bold dream to connect the Hudson to the Great Lakes by canal created a transportation revolution.

It was a disaster from the beginning.

How lucky to have Central Park as your back yard

It started as Claverack Landing in 1662, developed into a gambling and fleshpot retreat, and is now a haven of historic homes.

The woman whose great-grandfather introduced pastrami to the New World explores an American institution that is as hard to define as it is easy to recognize.

All along its 360-mile route, towns to which the canal gave birth are looking to its powerful ghost for economic revival.