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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)

… makes her feel as though she is confined beneath the bell jar of the books title Shes ultimately hospitalized and the books … though it has much to offer the presentday reader whos just about had it with NYCs wealthy classes too Its central …

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"

… and spent years in ratty downtown lofts along with a dreamy Greenwich Village duplex Ahead of the release of his new … One of These Things First we caught up with Gaines about an apartment he found by picking up a hitchhiker why … gays who replaced the ageing bohemians … 3 Do you own or rent … First I was a sublet then I rented with an option to …

By Virginia K. Smith |July 7, 2016 - 11:59AM

Beach

Serious beach reads: 5 New York-centric books to pack on your next vacation

… fluff rather than serious works of art these five books come with some intellectual heftand perhaps new … home when youre not busy sunbathing that is … Netherland by Joseph ONeill … In honor of the 2016 Summer Olympics … who know a bump ball from a sticky wicket Part of the joy of reading about New York is seeing it through new eyes …

By Alanna Schubach |May 30, 2016 - 10:15AM