books

… 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

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

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 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