Josh Ocampo

“Nowhere in all America will you find more patrician-like houses; parks and gardens more opulent, than in New Bedford,” Herman Melville wrote in his 1851 sea odyssey, “Moby-Dick.”The novelist wasn’t wrong. Mansions from Melville’s era and even older homes still stand in New Bedford, Mass., roughly 50 miles south of Boston and situated along the

“Nowhere in all America will you find more patrician-like houses; parks and gardens more opulent, than in New Bedford,” Herman Melville wrote in his 1851 sea odyssey, “Moby-Dick.”The novelist wasn’t wrong. Mansions from Melville’s era and even older homes still stand in New Bedford, Mass., roughly 50 miles south of Boston and situated along the

The sight was anything but romantic.Lined up side by side, more than a dozen heart-shaped tubs littered the parking lot of Pocono Palace Resort, one of the last remaining honeymoon getaways in the Pocono Mountains of Eastern Pennsylvania. Each tub screamed “pick me,” as if they were part of a rose ceremony on “The Bachelor."“They’d

The jazz legend lived in the five-story building on West 139th Street as a teenager with her mother.A four-alarm fire on Wednesday evening severely damaged a building in Harlem where the jazz legend Billie Holiday once lived.The Fire Department said it received the call at about 9 p.m. and extinguished the fire, which spread through

Last year, New Yorkers called in more than 750,000 noise complaints. Incredibly, nearly 10 percent of them came from one area.With nearly 30,000 residents per square mile, New York City makes a lot of noise. In fact, a 2012 study by the National Institutes of Health found that a “substantial fraction” of residents may even