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… of a major event Its particularly good for its chronicle of incidents and milestones of colonial New YorkNew Amsterdam … In it youll meet a cast of longforgotten political social and financial movers and shakers as they influence …

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

… of Stephen Birminghams book Life at the Dakota New Yorks Most Unusual Address about the famous Upper … West Side coop The early chapters set the stage for the Dakotas construction in the late 19th century as more apartment buildings were rising to meet the demand from New …

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"

… Hamptons International Film Festival But Gaines is a New Yorker at heart having been born and raised in Brooklyn and spent years in ratty downtown lofts along with a dreamy Greenwich Village duplex Ahead of … I live in East Hampton but in my heart I still live on West 11th Street in Manhattan where I spent nearly 20 years … 2 …

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