The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation has given the Museum of the City of New York a $2 million grant for the acquisition.

The 60-year-old president of New York City's Stickball Hall of Fame waxes poetic about his favorite street game in this video.

Ted Lee, Jessica B. Harris and John T. Edge discussed the history of Southern food in the North at the Museum of the City of New York. Listen to their hunger-inducing discussion here.

The annual AIPAD photography show has taken over the Armory. Also on view: Images of New York from Look Magazine at the Museum of the City of New York. And the Barnstormers take Manhattan. View the slideshow.

There is the New York of skyscrapers and brownstones, plazas and parks, busy streets and isolated nooks.  And then there is Charles Addams’ New York — the same landscape, but suddenly filled with ogres, trolls, witches, and just plain weirdness.

The oughts saw the demise of countless institutions (books, newspapers, network news anchors), but there's one most folks are not likely to miss: the ossified museum cafeteria, with its plastic trays, bounteous fluorescent lighting and grim metal counters stocked with stale egg salad sandwiches and Sanka.

PlaNYC, New York's ambitious sustainability plan for the next two decades, turned two years old on Earth Day 2009. To commemorate, former Deputy Mayor and PlaNYC mastermind Daniel Doctoroff took part in a panel discussion about urban planning at the Museum of the City of New York.

We look back on the elements of style as this year marked the “official” golden anniversary of succinct, witty prose.