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

… Dekalb Avenue L station just over the Brooklyn border in Ridgewood Queens a block of Stockholm Street is one of the … century The boundaries between Bushwick Brooklyn and Ridgewood Queens have been fluid throughout the citys … apartment per floor and an unfinished basement Firstfloor apartments had five rooms and second floor units had six the …

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

… other parts of Brooklyn these buildings gave the owners the chance to live comfortably indeed almost elegantly on the … St is in a brick twofamily house built in 1925 Its on the second floor and has three bedrooms an open kitchen and a …

By Marjorie Cohen |October 26, 2017 - 9:00AM
5 secrets of Harlem's Sugar Hill

… The boundaries of Sugar Hill are often debated and it makes sense What … in February 2017 … While many of us know it for its Harlem Renaissance history and its immortalization in Take … a turreted circus castle by Curbed which was built in the 1880s forJames A Bailey of Barnum Bailey fame Located at …

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

… Nearly 40 years ago Jeffrey Gurock now the Libby M Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University wrote When Harlem was Jewish a book about the Jews who lived uptown from 1870 to 1930 Now Gurock has released his second tome about …

By Marjorie Cohen |January 25, 2017 - 8:59AM