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

By Brick Underground |January 8, 2026 - 10:30AM

Residential buildings along 76th Street and Riverside Park in the late 19th century.

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

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By Brick Underground |October 24, 2025 - 9:30AM

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

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

… But most of all an entryway says a lot about the people who live in the building … If you want to attract posh residents … is actually a myth and as the author of The Dakota The History of the Worlds BestKnown Apartment Building he ought … … 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