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Escape
Long Island town with Nazi origins ordered to stop racist home-buying policies
By Lucy Cohen Blatter |May 23, 2017 - 2:59PM
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Neighborhood Intel
Inside Sunset Park, the city's largest (and growing) Chinatown
By Marjorie Cohen |May 17, 2017 - 8:59AM
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Live
Manhattanites are not happy about the borough's new area code
By Alanna Schubach |May 5, 2017 - 9:59AM
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Live
The retro solution to NYC's housing crunch after WWII? These pre-fab metal "huts"
By Virginia K. Smith |April 26, 2017 - 1:59PM
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Live
Mapping NYC through its LGBT history
By Lucy Cohen Blatter |April 25, 2017 - 3:59PM
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Neighborhood Intel
"Citizen Jane" revisits how Jane Jacobs defeated Robert Moses—and how New Yorkers can fight to protect their neighborhoods
By Virginia K. Smith |April 24, 2017 - 9:59AM
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Rent
4 major milestones that led to the rent-stabilization laws we have today
By Virginia K. Smith |April 20, 2017 - 2:59PM
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Live
How does the "future" home of the 1950s stack up to today's amenities?
By Virginia K. Smith |March 20, 2017 - 3:59PM
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Live
Goodnight, development: The tale of 121 Charles Street, the former home of a beloved children's book author

… was some serious rumbling downtown when a 1000squarefoot home at 121 Charles Street was listed online as a potential … bucolic uptown with expansive plots of land for growing crops It remained so in 1868 when William Glass and his wife … confusion as to why the owners would put it on the market But as Moss observes the surrounding area reflected a …

By Alanna Schubach |March 20, 2017 - 8:59AM
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Buy
Go for this condo and you'll be living in a Lower East Side landmark
By Alanna Schubach |March 16, 2017 - 1:59PM