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The 25 best books about New York City history
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)

… in search of topless beaches and sunbathing girls work at a neighborhood ice cream parlor spot celebrities and engage in … with her snippy emotionally remote older sister Martine who lives in New York City There Martine discloses to her a … even this turns out to be fairly mild compared to what adults get up to in books like  The Hunger Games  This …

By Alanna Schubach |June 15, 2017 - 12:30PM
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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
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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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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
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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
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Beach
Serious beach reads: 5 New York-centric books to pack on your next vacation
By Alanna Schubach |May 30, 2016 - 10:15AM
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"The Brooklyn Experience": Then and now
By Lucy Cohen Blatter |May 17, 2016 - 8:59AM
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Neighborhood Intel
Author Jennifer Wright knows Murray Hill as well as she knows breakups
By Lucy Cohen Blatter |December 1, 2015 - 12:59PM
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Neighborhood Intel
Apartment Therapy's Maxwell Ryan made the move to brownstone Brooklyn, but still has love for lofts
By Virginia K. Smith |November 24, 2015 - 8:59AM