The 25 best books about New York City history

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

… feel as though she is confined beneath the bell jar of the books title Shes ultimately hospitalized and the books conclusion is ambiguous as to her recovery Its a dark … NYC  … If you think summer in New York can be rough now imagine an NYC filled with people in the throes of a …

By Alanna Schubach |June 15, 2017 - 12:30PM
Been wanting to add some color to your bland apartment? Interior designer Moll Anderson is here to help

… to breath new life into our apartments But according to interior designer Moll Anderson the benefits dont just include a more … lives as well Ive used the term prescription color for years because I believe that theres a color for everyone …

By Virginia K. Smith |February 15, 2017 - 3:59PM
Here's proof that NYC's middle class has been getting squeezed out since the 1870s

… Trying to make it work as a middleclass New Yorker can be a … empty land in Central Park while the middle classes are being driven out of the City by excessive rents Indeed it … New York was threatening to become a city of the enormously rich and the desperately poor … Were not quite sure if this …

By Virginia K. Smith |September 23, 2016 - 12:59PM
Author Steven Gaines on dingy downtown lofts, renting out to porn filmmakers to make ends meet, and why living in NYC is an "honor"

… rapidlychanging metropolis … 1 What neighborhood do you live in … In reality I live in East Hampton but in my heart I still live on West 11th Street in Manhattan where I spent nearly …

By Virginia K. Smith |July 7, 2016 - 11:59AM
"The Brooklyn Experience": Then and now

… In the 25 years since her first Brooklyn guidebook came out Ellen Freudenheim author of The Brooklyn … neighborhood has gotten Freudenheim says If I were doing it now Id probably live in Astoria We spoke to the author about … of an apartment in Manhattan … The last edition of your book was published in 2004 How have things changed in …

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

… York Post  covering sex and dating When shes not writing about love or history or both she  procrastinates by … at the time  … 5 Whats the one thing you love the most about it … It overlooks a church And trees which are really … during the winter  … 6 If theres one thing you could change about your apartment what would it be … During the summer …

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