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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

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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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‘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

… to Apartments for the Affluent in New York City But most of all an entryway says a lot about the people who live … eight of them are about the luxury homes of the rich and famous Alpern has chosen 168 buildings that he considers the … the book He agreed The same type of thing happened with the painter Simon Fieldhouse I came across a watercolor of the …

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

… familyowned real estate firms was a passionate collector of all things New York Before he died in 1995 Durst … a print of Governor Peter Stuyvesants house from 1658 shown top Shorto writes that most of the governors of the Dutch … and the shadows they cast over Central Park or lowrise neighborhoods In the chapter entitled Moving the People …