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

… blocks from the justrenovated Bay Ridge Parkway subway stop on the R line youll find yourself on one of New York … edited the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper As state senator he is best known for drafting the bill that kickstarted … lavish mansions and summer houses gave way to modest places for the less welloff … As happened time and time …

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

… since it was the sculptors not the carvers who got the credit for the finished work The list of the familys work is … pictured below Twenty years later when the 40th Precinct NYPD station house was built at the corner of 139th Street …

By Marjorie Cohen |October 3, 2017 - 3:00PM
Looking back at Harlem's history as a major Jewish enclave

… wrote When Harlem was Jewish a book about the Jews who lived uptown from 1870 to 1930 Now Gurock has released … is delighted to be known as Harlems Jewish Historian Here are five things about Gurocks Jewish Harlem that you may not … Americas antipathy to Romanias persecution of the Jews Many of the other influential Jews who lived in Harlem in

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