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

… Pirates glue factories and mob graves Blissville is Queenss dumping ground …

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

… street have bow fronts small front yards high stoops and garden entrances The lion heads carved at the top of the … left over to maintain the green space according to Henry Stewart who leads tours of the park In the 1920s the BMT … still available It boasts 1800 square feet a 700squarefoot garden and a finished rec room Price $975000   A rental not …

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 … the bigname firm of Bjarke Ingels Construction on the new facility is set to start in 2018 … The real estate pressure … one of the homes that says Let Me Be Brooks says thats his neighbors notsosubtle way of telling real estate speculators …

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

…   … Live … historic district … New Jersey … Take Five … Explore Newarks unsung historic districts …

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

… Alley has evolved into a mix of private residences and an art schoolthe New York Studio School of Drawing Painting and … old Without much formal education but with lots of smarts he became a successful New York merchant an outspoken … lived in the mansion across the street from hers on Fifth Avenue Gertrude refused to be bound by the conventions of …

By Marjorie Cohen |March 14, 2017 - 2:59PM