In the 1970s and ’80s, New York’s streets and subways were plagued with persistent crime. Then the city came back to life.

The lettercard, penned by one of the Titanic’s best-known survivors just days before the steamship sank, smashed estimates to ...

Archibald Gracie wrote of the ill-fated steamship: "It is a fine ship but I shall await my journeys end before I pass ...