Join Brick’s new book club for readers fascinated by NYC’s real estate history

… New York City by Richard Plunz The book is taught in many college courses and follows the evolution of all types of … era It includes a broad look at political and cultural events in the city underpinning changes in housing and the …

By Brick Underground |October 24, 2025 - 9:30AM
After the shipping industry left Coenties Slip in Manhattan, some of the biggest names in American art moved in

… Where you live and who your neighbors are play a leading role in every New Yorkers life story … and in that short time their work electrified the art world  In the 1700s and early 1800s when shipping was at the … into some of the large empty spaces on the Slip Some of the largest ones had been ship chandleries and places where …

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