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… Whether you were born in New York moved here decades ago or just arrived you might be curious to know something about what was here before you Kenneth Jackson editor of The … of two volumes each of which weighs in at well over 1000 pages It provides great depth of knowledge in just about any …

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

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

… him with violence that he must always be prepared to fight back … A vision of postapocalyptic NYC … If you think … with her snippy emotionally remote older sister Martine who lives in New York City There Martine discloses to her a … 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

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

… Trying to make it work as a middleclass New Yorker can be a stressful endeavor to put it … was keeping empty land in Central Park while the middle classes are being driven out of the City by excessive rents Indeed it was upon the middle class that the squeeze was most extreme Of the million …

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