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Neighborhood Intel
YA author Carolyn Mackler once lived in a shrink's office—and lived to tell the tale
By Virginia K. Smith |September 1, 2015 - 10:30AM
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One cartoonist's quest to draw every single person in New York (yes, that means you, too)
By Virginia K. Smith |August 20, 2015 - 1:59PM
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Summer reading for city kids: 5 children's books that celebrate NYC and New Yorkers

… go theres inspiration When my son was young and played in Union Square I was moved to write The Elf of Union Square … stray dog who gets adopted by a taxi driver Once these two streetwise New Yorkers find each other they ride uptown and … Georgess dad loses his job they downsize from a house in Brooklyn to an apartment where Georges befriends some quirky …

By Jan Carr |June 17, 2015 - 8:59AM
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Summer must-reads: 5 novels and memoirs where NYC and its apartments are characters
By Alanna Schubach |June 4, 2015 - 8:59AM
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Home libraries revisited: So many books, so much love
By Jennifer Laing |May 1, 2015 - 4:00PM
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50 Shades of Grey: Real estate edition
By Lucy Cohen Blatter |March 9, 2015 - 12:29PM
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Small Spaces
Brooklyn novelist Sarah Gerard's grandfather sweater gets guests talking
By Ashley P. Taylor |February 10, 2015 - 3:59PM
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'Never Can Say Goodbye' editor Sari Botton on surviving life in New York
By Sharon Krum |January 8, 2015 - 8:59AM
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Small Spaces
How one writer lived large in a 340-square-foot Greenwich Village walk-up
By Sharon Krum |December 17, 2014 - 8:59AM
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John Buffalo Mailer's fave antique: the typewriter his dad used to write "The Naked and the Dead"
By Abby Margulies |September 23, 2014 - 12:59PM