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Brick’s next Book Club read will be ‘The New Kings of New York'

By Brick Underground |January 8, 2026 - 10:30AM

Residential buildings along 76th Street and Riverside Park in the late 19th century.

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Join Brick’s new book club for readers fascinated by NYC’s real estate history

By Brick Underground |October 24, 2025 - 9:30AM

Design + Architecture

In ‘Housing the Nation,’ experts grapple with how to solve the affordable housing crisis

By Marjorie Cohen |November 4, 2024 - 4:00PM

Ellsworth Kelly at his Coenties Slip Studio, New York, 1961.

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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 … and it was true decades ago for a group of seven young artists who lived on Manhattans Coenties Slip a tiny block … her Coenties Slip stay making fabric art was an exception She drove her Daimler from Chicago loaded with her cat a …

By Marjorie Cohen |August 7, 2023 - 2:30PM

Neighborhood Intel

‘The New Kings of New York’ pulls back the curtain on luxury real estate developers

… you can imagine putting up a luxury residential building in New York City one of the most complicated cities in the world for real estate involves intense behindthescenes dealmaking Now …

By Marjorie Cohen |May 24, 2022 - 9:30AM

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What the entrances of NYC luxury and historic buildings tell us about who lives there

By Marjorie Cohen |November 4, 2020 - 10:30AM

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In 'New York Rising,’ authors explore 400 years of the city's history

… history from Laying the Groundwork 16401800 to Remaking Times Square 19802000 The Dursts had a particular interest in … cultural realms They posit that the forces that have shaped Manhattans urbanism are not primarily natural ones the fires …

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