After the shipping industry left Coenties Slip in Manhattan, some of the biggest names in American art moved in

… Where you live and who your neighbors are play a leading role in every … by Alain Renais and Luis Bunuel The artists arrived in NYC by boat from Europe or by bus from out west Lenore … down the blockwho are also trying to work out how to make something compelling and how to survive while doing that But …

By Marjorie Cohen |August 7, 2023 - 2:30PM
‘The New Kings of New York’ pulls back the curtain on luxury real estate developers

… Most Famous Skyline is out today and a vice president of a NYC real estate private equity firm who requested anonymity … says hes looking forward to finding out all the dirt on some of the biggest real estate deals ever made anywhere … ago Swig bought the rentstabilized building this writer lives in  Its a modest sixstory building from the 1920s but …

By Marjorie Cohen |May 24, 2022 - 9:30AM
What the entrances of NYC luxury and historic buildings tell us about who lives there

… for the Affluent in New York City But most of all an entryway says a lot about the people who live in the building … If you want to … building he says In this his 11th book eight of them are about the luxury homes of the rich and famous Alpern has …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 4, 2020 - 10:30AM
In 'New York Rising,’ authors explore 400 years of the city's history

… maps photographs and postcards In the foreword to a handsome new book New York Rising An Illustrated History from … The scholars all wellknown to anyone with an interest in NYC history are Russell Shorto the late Hilary Ballon Andrew … most of the governors of the Dutch colony of New Netherland lived inside the fort but when Peter Stuyvesant arrived in …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 1, 2018 - 9:00AM