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 about the city including about a hundred a year from 1990 on so sorting the wheat from the chaff is a …

By Marjorie Cohen |February 14, 2018 - 9:00AM
Apartment Therapy's Maxwell Ryan made the move to brownstone Brooklyn, but still has love for lofts

… As the founder and CEO of the hugely popular website Apartment Therapy and more recently the author of  Apartment Therapy Complete + Happy Home its safe to say that … corner from Coney Island to the Cloisters New York is so compact you really can walk all around it and get to know it …

By Virginia K. Smith |November 24, 2015 - 8:59AM