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

… Lets face it Summer in NYC is kind of rough The hot and humid streets are rendered … feel as though she is confined beneath the bell jar of the books title Shes ultimately hospitalized and the books … of that decades selfabsorption though it has much to offer the presentday reader whos just about had it with NYCs …

By Alanna Schubach |June 15, 2017 - 12:30PM
Serious beach reads: 5 New York-centric books to pack on your next vacation

… perspectives on the city  ONeill was born in Ireland and lived a peripatetic childhood eventually settling in the … a Lower East Side apartment with a tub in the kitchen but what she lacks in fancy digs she makes up for in New York … strivingand often failingto leave their Tremont neighborhood behind Readers baffled by what they perceive as …

By Alanna Schubach |May 30, 2016 - 10:15AM
"The Brooklyn Experience": Then and now

… her first Brooklyn guidebook came out Ellen Freudenheim author of The Brooklyn Experience whose fourth edition was … doing it now Id probably live in Astoria We spoke to the author about Brooklyn then and now the changes to its …

By Lucy Cohen Blatter |May 17, 2016 - 8:59AM
Author Jennifer Wright knows Murray Hill as well as she knows breakups

… theres a working fireplace … 1 What neighborhood do you live in … Murray Hill … 2 Is this your dream neighborhood or is there someplace else in NYC youd prefer to settle in … Its kind of become my dream … really beat up Angelas Shoe Repair on 39th and Third is the best … 12 Whats your favorite spot in the city … The lobby …

By Lucy Cohen Blatter |December 1, 2015 - 12:59PM
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 … crappy but weirdly beautiful on the outside  … Whats the one thing you love the most about it … Its a house with a … livingdiningkitchen room so I can entertain easily and a bedroom upstairs with windows on the sky  … If theres one

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