What the entrances of NYC luxury and historic buildings tell us about who lives there

… Portals Elegant Entrances and Ingratiating Ingresses to Apartments for the Affluent in New York City But most of all … overthetop triple arched entrance court in the style of the French Renaissance of Francois I Im happy to report that the … … I am a huge fan of Robert A M Stern and have included his NYC buildings including 15 Central Park West and 70 Vestry …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 4, 2020 - 10:30AM
In 'New York Rising,’ authors explore 400 years of the city's history

… collector of all things New York Before he died in 1995 Durst amassed almost 35000 pieces of New York … he agreed to move the library to a brownstone on East 61st Street By the end of his life the fivestory house could … most of the governors of the Dutch colony of New Netherland lived inside the fort but when Peter Stuyvesant arrived in …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 1, 2018 - 9:00AM
Reality checking the real estate in Lifetime's new psychological thriller, 'YOU'

… only am I a huge fan of her books but I also have been known to watch pretty much every scary Lifetime movie ever made Dont judge So imagine my surprise at seeing my former Yorkville apartment building … native New Yorker Joe Greenberg played by Penn Bagley I realized it was the shop I lived over for seven years In …

By Kelly Kreth |September 13, 2018 - 3:00PM
The 25 best books about the history of New York City's boroughs and neighborhoods

… Ellen Fletcher Rosebrock … Rosebrocks book was published in 1974 by the still relatively new South Street Seaport Museum … news novels etc as well as secondary sources Anderson enlivens moments of history … Justin Ferate … The Madonna of … Riverdale Press which were collected into this book in 1968 Local New York history was largely ignored at the time …

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