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

By Marjorie Cohen |January 26, 2018 - 9:00AM

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

By Marjorie Cohen |November 14, 2017 - 9:00AM

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Senator Street in Bay Ridge: A historic block without landmark protections

By Marjorie Cohen |October 26, 2017 - 9:00AM

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Alexander Avenue in the South Bronx is home to the borough's oldest townhouses

By Marjorie Cohen |October 3, 2017 - 3:00PM

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Explore Newark's unsung historic districts

By Lana Bortolot |August 10, 2017 - 2:14PM

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MacDougal Alley: A small downtown mews filled with NYC art history

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

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5 secrets of Harlem's Sugar Hill

By Virginia K. Smith |February 24, 2017 - 12:59PM

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Looking back at Harlem's history as a major Jewish enclave

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

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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 … with the train on the end of the blockthe sound of subway cars comforts you like the crashing of waves at the ocean … 5 A brand new 23floor rental building towers over teenytiny Chester Court … The …

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

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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 … the realm of real estate development He built his first 10 housesnumbers 414 to 432 on spec on the south side of the … are t he Belasco on West 44th Street known as the Stuyvesant when first built the Selwyn on West 42nd Street …

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