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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
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

… Seymour Durst son of the founder of one of New York Citys most prominent familyowned real estate firms was a passionate collector of all things New York Before he died in 1995 Durst …

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

… To get a sense of whats essential reading for the New York history neophyte we asked 11 historians and authors to tell us their favorite books of New York history along with an explanation of why each title made the … is that a reader and a lone walker can keep such intimate company without violating the solitude of either Julius the …

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