books

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

… are in and the next book that participants have chosen is The New Kings of New York Renegades Moguls Gamblers and the Remaking of the …

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

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

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

… and the 30 often quirky watercolors are by the Australian artist Simon Fieldhouse Alpern writes an introduction to …

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

… 1995 Durst amassed almost 35000 pieces of New York historybooks prints maps photographs and postcards In the foreword … integrity and thus his safety he agreed to move the library to a brownstone on East 61st Street By the end of … to Columbia Universitys Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library where 20000 of the items in the collection were …

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