Follow the yellow brick: Tracing Ridgewood's history through a single picturesque block

… Though they were once common brickpaved streets are pretty hard to find in New … mills attracting even more German workers who wanted to live close to their work … Oz wasnt the only place with … folks from Bushwick Williamsburg and Manhattan … Want to live on Stockholm  Street … There are only 36 Berger houses …

By Marjorie Cohen |January 26, 2018 - 9:00AM
Senator Street in Bay Ridge: A historic block without landmark protections

… off the corner of Fourth Avenue the 300 block of Senator Street is the only block in Bay Ridge with brownstones on … same firm Brownstone was beginning to go out of fashion by 1906 when the developers began to build the houses on spec … public relations purposes Yellow Hook a name chosen by the Dutch in the 1600s because of the yellow clay of the area …

By Marjorie Cohen |October 26, 2017 - 9:00AM
Alexander Avenue in the South Bronx is home to the borough's oldest townhouses

… I n a history of the Bronx written in 1897 Mott Haven was … Board of Trade a group of businessmen and professionals who lived in the area and promoted it with vigor set up shop at … and its bridge were named in honor of Edward Willis who lived at 280 Alexander Ave Willis was a real estate …

By Marjorie Cohen |October 3, 2017 - 3:00PM
Explore Newark's unsung historic districts

… To many Newark NJ is the name in front of an airport a place for a …   … You Might Also Like … viewbublogpanes=ymalinline   … Live … historic district … New Jersey … Take Five … Explore …

By Lana Bortolot |August 10, 2017 - 2:14PM
MacDougal Alley: A small downtown mews filled with NYC art history

… Few New York City streets can genuinely be called mews but … didnt have to go far to find her mate Harry Payne Whitney lived in the mansion across the street from hers on Fifth … with the headline  Daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt Will Live in Dingy New York Alley This was fake news she worked …

By Marjorie Cohen |March 14, 2017 - 2:59PM
5 secrets of Harlem's Sugar Hill

… The boundaries of Sugar Hill are often debated and it makes sense … Tenenbaums House … Remember that house the Tenenbaum clan lived in on Archer avenueand that Owen Wilsons character … topographically accurate … and the Sugarhill Gang never lived here … Were willing to bet that for a lot of people of …

By Virginia K. Smith |February 24, 2017 - 12:59PM
Looking back at Harlem's history as a major Jewish enclave

… wrote When Harlem was Jewish a book about the Jews who lived uptown from 1870 to 1930 Now Gurock has released his … to focus his research on the place where the two groups lived together All he had to do was look out of his window … Harlem  He writes F or so many privileged New Yorkers Whole Foods is just the corner store But among the black and …

By Marjorie Cohen |January 25, 2017 - 8:59AM
Chester Court: A cul-de-sac in Brooklyn that feels like the U.K.'s Cotswolds

… Peter J Collins was a man with a housing plan When in the early 20th … chef of the Norm Restaurant at the Brooklyn Museum has lived for 10 years on Chester Court an 18minute walk from … 2016 National Book Awardwinning novel Underground Railroad  lived on Chester Court from 2003 to 2005 Here are five more …

By Lucy Cohen Blatter |January 18, 2017 - 8:59AM
Bertine Block : A small street in the Bronx that offers a window into 19th century NYC

… If youre walking down East 136th Street between Willis Avenue and Brook … people from varied ethnic and national backgrounds who have lived and continue to live on the block The first rowhouses were built on the …

By Marjorie Cohen |December 22, 2016 - 9:12AM