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See into NYC's industrial past by viewing photographs of places like the West Side Piers before they were torn down for Battery Park City and the Hoboken Ferry Terminal in the 1970s (the deteriorated ...

Historically, factory jobs were low paying and grueling. In fact, manufacturing flourished times of economic despair.

Highway construction, the crack cocaine epidemic, and gentrifying efforts threatened to destroy a community that soldiers on ...

Some consumers are responding to economic uncertainty by cutting their spending on nonessential items. Plus, a look at ...