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We recently moved into our absolute dream neighborhood --we're in the heart of the Upper West Side, close to Fairway, Citarella, the express train... and the Beacon Theater.

The Beacon is iconic. It's a legendary...

There are a lot of great things about my neighborhood, and specifically, my street--107th, between Broadway and Amsterdam. It's a 24-hour kind of place and if I need anything at 2 in the morning, I can usually get it. The...

For the last 25 years, I’ve lived in Tudor City, an apartment complex in Midtown East, located from 40th to 42nd Streets between First and Third Avenues. Tudor City is a series neo-Gothic buildings -- the first...

In the past three years, two new restaurants catering to the cabbie crowd have opened on my block near the northern end of Columbus Avenue, right downstairs from my street-facing studio on the third floor of a five-floor...

My husband and I live on 81st between Broadway and West End, which is a great neighborhood, and we have a fantastic  apartment.

It's a two-bedroom, two-bath in a postwar building, and...

When we first saw the loft we eventually bought, we thought living next to a church in lower Manhattan would be convenient (my husband is Roman Catholic) and, in a way, charming.

And talk about a good neighbor.  It...

Don’t believe anyone who tells you, ``Hey, it’s a schoolyard. You won’t be home when the kids are in school, so it won’t bother you.’’

There were several problems with that statement when we bought our condo loft. First...

When I moved in to my place in Park Slope four years ago, I was just looking for an affordable share that was a close commute to NYU, where I was going to grad school. One of my brother’s old friends had a decent-...

I bought my current apartment, a co-op studio just off the 8th Street N/R station, three years ago after renting on 14th Street and 2nd Avenue. Being closer to NYU was part...