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Residential buildings along 76th Street and Riverside Park in the late 19th century.
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Join Brick’s new book club for readers fascinated by NYC’s real estate history
By Brick Underground |October 24, 2025 - 9:30AM
'Housing the Nation' by Rizzoli
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
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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
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In 'New York Rising,’ authors explore 400 years of the city's history

… Seymour Durst son of the founder of one of New York Citys most prominent familyowned real estate firms was a …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 1, 2018 - 9:00AM
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Suburbs
A Northampton, Massachusetts, house with a yoga studio, for $489,000
By Rebecca Fishbein |September 21, 2018 - 12:00PM
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Reality checking the real estate in Lifetime's new psychological thriller, 'YOU'
By Kelly Kreth |September 13, 2018 - 3:00PM
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The 25 best books about the history of New York City's boroughs and neighborhoods
By Marjorie Cohen |March 30, 2018 - 12:00PM
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The 25 best books about New York City history

… Whether you were born in New York moved here decades ago or just arrived you might be … you Kenneth Jackson editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City says that over ten thousand books have been written …

By Marjorie Cohen |February 14, 2018 - 9:00AM