The Author of 'St. Marks Is Dead' on the $200 Apartment She Grew Up In and What Made Her Move to Brooklyn

… was pretty thrilling … You grew up on St Marks and your parents still live there Can you tell us a bit about how they … … Theyve lived between First and Second since 1973 They rented their place for $200 a month and then they bought it … the Village Voice revolutionized the way people got their rental apartments True story I found my own first sixthfloor …

By Kelly Kreth |October 29, 2015 - 9:59AM
YA author Carolyn Mackler once lived in a shrink's office—and lived to tell the tale

… a therapists office and more … 1 What neighborhood do you live in … Upper West Side in the low 100s … 2 Is this your … to settle in … Dream neighborhood My husband and I used to live in the west 60s and I thought that was the place to be … bedroom We joke about slowly moving our wall into our neighbors apartment until weve claimed another room … 7 In …

By Virginia K. Smith |September 1, 2015 - 10:30AM
Summer reading for city kids: 5 children's books that celebrate NYC and New Yorkers

… experiences and cultural references and the excellent kids books below double as love letters to our rich busy … by Mark Buehner … Is there anyone more iconically NYC than a cabbie Max is a stray dog who gets adopted by a … book partmemoir and partfantasy eightyearold Cassie lifts off the roof and flies over the city over the George …

By Jan Carr |June 17, 2015 - 8:59AM
Summer must-reads: 5 novels and memoirs where NYC and its apartments are characters

… The places we live in figure largely not only in the minds of New Yorkers … Morningside Heights A Novel  turns a rapidly changing neighborhood into a metaphor for marriage The characters in … maintains while also earning a 40 GPA as a college student What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt Leo and Erica Hertzberg are …

By Alanna Schubach |June 4, 2015 - 8:59AM