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

… distinguished enclaves of workingclass dwellings built in NYC in the early twentieth century Urban historian Justin … also created the golden yellow bricks that once paved Manhattans Park Avenue when it was truly known as The Yellow … Pratt Institute and before designing most of Ridgewood apprenticed at the renowned Beaux Arts firm Carrere Hastings …

By Marjorie Cohen |January 26, 2018 - 9:00AM
Chester Court: A cul-de-sac in Brooklyn that feels like the U.K.'s Cotswolds

… Court a culdesac with a row of nine houses on each side off Brooklyns Flatbush Avenue between Fenimore and Hawthorne Streets he set out to attract solid middleclass families to … By 1911 when Collins started building the Brooklyn Bridge was up railroad access to the area had been …

By Lucy Cohen Blatter |January 18, 2017 - 8:59AM