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

… is a juicy look at the real estate personalities who transformed New York City into a luxury playground for the 1 … the city went from a bankrupt combat zone from abandoned buildings and a burning Bronx to one where people are willing to pay $200 million for an apartment  Check out Brick Undergrounds interview with Piore …

By Brick Underground |January 8, 2026 - 10:30AM
After the shipping industry left Coenties Slip in Manhattan, some of the biggest names in American art moved in

… No 35 25 and 27 the Slip was no longer used by the shipping industry Abandoned warehouses gas works and shipchandleries … 60s and in the 70s and 80s collecting art became a major industry I wanted to capture this time and place in a book  … flexibility for creating a worklife area that traditional apartments didnt Most of the least expensive apartments in …

By Marjorie Cohen |August 7, 2023 - 2:30PM