The street piano is believed to have originated in England completely by accident, when a student could not haul his piano up the stairs of his new apartment, leaving it on the sidewalk and inviting ...

Deep in the basement of the Steinway Piano factory on Steinway Street in Astoria, Queens, a man presses his thumb to a small biometric scanner attached to the wall in a darkened hallway next to a ...

Steinway & Sons’ piano factory in Astoria, Queens is one of the city’s great hidden gems, where 250 workers are still meticulously handcrafting the world’s most acclaimed pianos since the 1870s. It is ...