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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)

… Lets face it Summer in NYC is kind of rough The hot and humid streets are … wonder then that these works of fiction include scenes of summer New York City and beyond that are less than idyllic … Esthers feelings mirror many of Plaths own during her time in NYC an unease with the chaos of the city that peaks …

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

… In the 25 years since her first Brooklyn guidebook came out Ellen Freudenheim author of The … neighborhoods There are tons of services and stores and places like Brooklyn Larder which specialize in smallbatch …

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

… who collected rent in all cash the eternal appeal of lofts and more … What neighborhood do you live in … BedStuy … crappy but weirdly beautiful on the outside … Whats the one thing you love the most about it … Its a house with a … livingdiningkitchen room so I can entertain easily and a bedroom upstairs with windows on the sky … If theres one …

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