Pirates, glue factories, and mob graves: Blissville is Queens's dumping ground

… industrial hub most of Blissville today is occupied by warehouses auto repair shops and yes there are still some …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 14, 2017 - 9:00AM
Senator Street in Bay Ridge: A historic block without landmark protections

… subway stop on the R line youll find yourself on one of New York Citys lesserknown brownstone blocks Located just … Sunset Park and built multifamily buildings for the Finnish Home Building Association a group of Finnish immigrants who … the great city of New York has ever undertaken Lacking resources the property became blighted and it was not until …

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

… most healthful cheerful economical and easily accessible homes that have ever been known   More than 100 years later … Historic District The Mott Haven East Historic District a second historic district designated in 1994  is made up …

By Marjorie Cohen |October 3, 2017 - 3:00PM
MacDougal Alley: A small downtown mews filled with NYC art history

… McDougallwhich is how he spelled itcame to the US from a small island off the coast of Scotland when he was just … … From 1949 to 1950 Jackson Pollock lived at number 9 a home borrowed from his friend and benefactor Alfonso Ossorio … up about once a year and some have their very own parking spaces right in front   A onebedroom one bath at number 1 …

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

… in February 2017 … While many of us know it for its Harlem Renaissance history and its immortalization in Take … 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

… 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 … to focus his research on the place where the two groups lived together All he had to do was look out of his window …

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