The 25 best books about New York City history

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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)

… it Summer in NYC is kind of rough The hot and humid streets are rendered even more so thanks to busloads of tourists … with her snippy emotionally remote older sister Martine who lives in New York City There Martine discloses to her a … … You Might Also Like … viewbublogpanes=ymalinline   … Live … books … summer … Summer Shake-Up … Summer reading 5 …

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

… more Instagramready apartment they extend to our emotional lives as well Ive used the term prescription color for years … a color for everyone for whatever is going on in their lives Anderson tells us For instance if someone recently … the spirit in the space Or if youre feeling down there are colors than can help pull you out of depressionmore …

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

… keeping empty land in Central Park while the middle classes are being driven out of the City by excessive rents Indeed … Of the million people in New York have the population lived in 40000 houses of between five and fifty rooms The other half lived in just 20000 dwellings mostly consisting of one room …

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"

… in New York City is a privilege and the importance of rolling with the punches in this rapidlychanging metropolis … gays who replaced the ageing bohemians  … 3 Do you own or rent … First I was a sublet then I rented with an option to … figure … 12 Whats your favorite spot in the city … Central Park So gorgeous The story of how it was built is …

By Virginia K. Smith |July 7, 2016 - 11:59AM
Serious beach reads: 5 New York-centric books to pack on your next vacation

… game is actually played here and the heroes of Netherland are a group of New Yorkers who know a bump ball from a … perspectives on the city  ONeill was born in Ireland and lived a peripatetic childhood eventually settling in the … in the city Sasha an assistant to a record producer lives in a Lower East Side apartment with a tub in the …

By Alanna Schubach |May 30, 2016 - 10:15AM
"The Brooklyn Experience": Then and now

… In the 25 years since her first Brooklyn guidebook came out Ellen Freudenheim author of The … Brooklyn and now youve got streets like it in Williamsburg Greenpoint Bushwick and other neighborhoods There are tons … throwback to Poland in the 17th Century And then go to hipster Williamsburg If that doesnt tell you the story of …

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