It is easy to feel nostalgic for the array of creative and political figures who made their mark on the East Village street, but its golden age is always ‘now’

The internet finds the drawings easy to ridicule and highly limited in scope – so Paul Owen decided to try his hand at creating a batch of his own

If you could be driven from New York to Boston for only $15, would you do it? Paul Owen once braved the bus company whose methods ‘substantially increase the likelihood of serious injury or death’ – and lived to tell about it

Perhaps two tourists allegedly fooled into paying $200 each to get to Staten Island found the idea of a free ferry too fundamentally un-American. But in fact New York City has a real socialist side

The High Bridge, which crosses the Harlem River between Manhattan and the Bronx and used to carry water from upstate, is reopening after more than 40 years. Paul Owen revisits its history in his series Bite of the Apple

Welcome to Bite of the Apple, Guardian journalist Paul Owen’s monthly postcard from New York City. Here, he considers the impact of the intersection of the lifestyles of its wealthiest residents with its unceasing need to build taller