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

… Two short blocks from the justrenovated Bay Ridge Parkway subway stop on the R line youll find … Avenue the 300 block of Senator Street is the only block in Bay Ridge with brownstones on both sides of the block At … and built a long drive a lodge stables and an observatory tower Over several decades Bliss went back and forth with …

By Marjorie Cohen |October 26, 2017 - 9:00AM
MacDougal Alley: A small downtown mews filled with NYC art history

… Alley is gated one of the best and possibly only ways that you can get to see it from the inside is to sign on to a … the unexpected included pursuing a career in sculpture and buying a studio at number 19 MacDougal Alley to do just that … organized at least 10 exhibitions each season for what was then known as the Whitney Studio By 1928 Gertrude …

By Marjorie Cohen |March 14, 2017 - 2:59PM
Looking back at Harlem's history as a major Jewish enclave

… … 1 More Jews once lived in Harlem than anywhere else in America … In 1917 Harlem was home to the second largest … Harlem the population was Germanboth Jewish and nonJewish North of 125th Street was the early black enclave he says As … defines as 96th Street and the East River to Fifth Avenue north to the Harlem River the other was Central Harlem 110th …

By Marjorie Cohen |January 25, 2017 - 8:59AM
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 Haven section of the Bronx youll likely find yourself intrigued by the striking … detail that knocks people out says Professor Lloyd Ultan Bronx borough historian and author of The Bronx The Ultimate …

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