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… Whether you were born in New York moved here decades ago or just arrived you might be curious to know something about what was here before you Kenneth Jackson editor of The … precolonization to the 21st century If I were teaching a class to wannabe city history buffs this would be the book I …

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

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"

… days writer Steven Gaines is a dedicated resident of East Hampton so much so that he even cofounded the Hamptons … of These Things First we caught up with Gaines about an apartment he found by picking up a hitchhiker why living in … 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

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 Brooklyn Experience whose fourth edition was just …

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