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

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

… summer New York City and beyond that are less than idyllic You may want to look elsewhere for a light and breezy beach … 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

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

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

Neighborhood Intel

Author Jennifer Wright knows Murray Hill as well as she knows breakups

By Lucy Cohen Blatter |December 1, 2015 - 12:59PM

Neighborhood Intel

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 … Ryan knows a thing or two about how to make a house or even a cramped apartment feel like a home Before the holiday … who collected rent in all cash the eternal appeal of lofts and more … What neighborhood do you live in … BedStuy …

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