‘The New Kings of New York’ pulls back the curtain on luxury real estate developers

… York City one of the most complicated cities in the world for real estate involves intense behindthescenes dealmaking … by your exfatherinlaw be in such bad shape that one of your lenders has to give you a credit card to buy groceries at … do anything  … Are you a New Yorker … I grew up outside of Boston My parents both academics were native New Yorkers For

By Marjorie Cohen |May 24, 2022 - 9:30AM
In 'New York Rising,’ authors explore 400 years of the city's history

… affordable housing for New Yorkers after the Great Depression is an excellent example of how a onetime solution … quality of the reproductions in the book is particularly impressive its design and layout credited to Yve Ludwig … latest activities Second and more importantly there is no index In a book covering such a broad span of history it …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 1, 2018 - 9:00AM
The 25 best books about the history of New York City's boroughs and neighborhoods

… City history as picked by local authors and historians So many good books came up in the process that we decided to … Park and the People A History of Central Park by Elizabeth Blackmar and Roy Rosenzweig … Fascinating research that … did something about it Hence this volume Historic photos of buildings sites and manuscripts accompany his chatty but …

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