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

… floors and manage their expenses by renting a onebedroom apartment on the third floor … Senator Street was named … estate Murphy sold it right before he died to Eliphalet W Bliss for $80000 Bliss was an enormously successful businessman who owned a …

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

… I n a history of the Bronx written in 1897 Mott Haven was described … the neighborhood has been protected by landmarking He sees what he says is an amazing amount of construction in the … Alexander Ave in an unknown condition may be available to buy soon The house built in 1901 has been seized by a lender …

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

… Few New York City streets can genuinely be called mews but MacDougal Alley a culdesac off MacDougal Street in … Washington Square North The Alley has evolved into a mix of private residences and an art schoolthe New York Studio … that generally there can be a value bump for locations on private alleys of a few percentage points He adds that these …

By Marjorie Cohen |March 14, 2017 - 2:59PM
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 … and Prospect Park had been created so all signals were go for real estate development According to Dolkart Collins … chef of the Norm Restaurant at the Brooklyn Museum has lived for 10 years on Chester Court an 18minute walk from …

By Lucy Cohen Blatter |January 18, 2017 - 8:59AM
Bertine Block : A small street in the Bronx that offers a window into 19th century NYC

… youll likely find yourself intrigued by the striking row of townhouses and tenements that line the thoroughfare known as … including numbers 408 to 412 which were the first to be built there in the 1870s the real architectural standouts … Haven in general is steady and growing  Either prospective renters and buyers know and love the area for what it is …

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