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

… reason author Andrew Alpern looks at entrances to New York Citys luxury and historic residential buildings in his new … Portals Elegant Entrances and Ingratiating Ingresses to Apartments for the Affluent in New York City But most of all … building was commissioned by Isidor Straus the president of RH Macys Straus who was Jewish had the building constructed …

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
By Marjorie Cohen |November 1, 2018 - 9:00AM
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Suburbs
A Northampton, Massachusetts, house with a yoga studio, for $489,000
By Rebecca Fishbein |September 21, 2018 - 12:00PM
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Reality checking the real estate in Lifetime's new psychological thriller, 'YOU'
By Kelly Kreth |September 13, 2018 - 3:00PM
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The 25 best books about the history of New York City's boroughs and neighborhoods
By Marjorie Cohen |March 30, 2018 - 12:00PM
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The 25 best books about New York City history

… Whether you were born in New York moved here decades ago or just arrived you might be curious to know something about what was here before you Kenneth Jackson editor of The … in New York City 19081929  by Andrew Dolkart … When writing or learning about row houses this is one of the …

By Marjorie Cohen |February 14, 2018 - 9:00AM