books

… about the city including about a hundred a year from 1990 on so sorting the wheat from the chaff is a daunting … … Justin Davidson … 14 City on Two Rivers by Stephen Longstreet … Written in 1975 this is New York City at breakneck … by Christine Stansell … Explores womens experience cooperative and competitive in early New York Citys tenement …

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

Live

Summer reading: 5 books that take place in steamy NYC (and one of its suburbs)

By Alanna Schubach |June 15, 2017 - 12:30PM

Improve

Been wanting to add some color to your bland apartment? Interior designer Moll Anderson is here to help

By Virginia K. Smith |February 15, 2017 - 3:59PM

Neighborhood Intel

Think you know Brooklyn? This author has walked every single block in the borough

By Virginia K. Smith |October 11, 2016 - 2:59PM

Rent

Here's proof that NYC's middle class has been getting squeezed out since the 1870s

By Virginia K. Smith |September 23, 2016 - 12:59PM

Neighborhood Intel

Author Steven Gaines on dingy downtown lofts, renting out to porn filmmakers to make ends meet, and why living in NYC is an "honor"

By Virginia K. Smith |July 7, 2016 - 11:59AM

Beach

Serious beach reads: 5 New York-centric books to pack on your next vacation

By Alanna Schubach |May 30, 2016 - 10:15AM

Live

"The Brooklyn Experience": Then and now

… out apartments within the house to generate income Given how expensive her neighborhood has gotten Freudenheim says … or rather increasing unaffordability I do want to dispel the myth that Brooklyn just happened This … Williamsburg where there isnt a lot of landmarking its that much more noticeable And these days if you go to downtown …