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

… once common brickpaved streets are pretty hard to find in New York these days A few blocks from the Dekalb Avenue L station just over the Brooklyn border in Ridgewood … has had many names South Williamsburg Evergreen and Knickerbocker Heights are just a few The one that best …

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

… Two short blocks from the justrenovated Bay Ridge Parkway subway stop on the R line youll find … was meant to connect the Fourth Avenue subway to Staten Island tunneling under the park and the Narrows Obviously … own they chose not to act … Want to live on the block A condo and a rental apartment nearby are on the market … One …

By Marjorie Cohen |October 26, 2017 - 9:00AM
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 Avenue in the Mott … district including numbers 408 to 412 which were the first to be built there in the 1870s the real architectural … the Bronx       … 5 … Modern day Bertines are building new apartments and attracting new residents to a changing Mott …

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