books

… ago or just arrived you might be curious to know something about what was here before you Kenneth Jackson editor of The … 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 …

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

… In the 25 years since her first Brooklyn guidebook came out Ellen Freudenheim author of The … years she and her husband rented out apartments within the house to generate income Given how expensive her … of the population density you have stores like Whole Foods and you see places like the Gowanus Canal and Newtown …

By Lucy Cohen Blatter |May 17, 2016 - 8:59AM