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

… Atavist Business Week and others He is the author of The Body Builders Inside the Science of the Engineered Human … real estate stories Piore says are about resilience And Body Builders is about the bodys resilience of course His Kings focuses on the …

By Marjorie Cohen |May 24, 2022 - 9:30AM
In 'New York Rising,’ authors explore 400 years of the city's history

… Seymour Durst son of the founder of one of New York Citys most prominent … died in 1995 Durst amassed almost 35000 pieces of New York historybooks prints maps photographs and postcards In the … vertical cities   While the essays make interesting reading what comes next is even better The Portfolio section where …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 1, 2018 - 9:00AM
The 25 best books about the history of New York City's boroughs and neighborhoods

… Last month we shared the 25 best books about New York City history as picked by local authors and historians So many good … highlighted books that deal with the entire city in some way or another here were going to round up the best

By Marjorie Cohen |March 30, 2018 - 12:00PM