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

… Island Expressway and Newtown Creek is a roughhewn mostly forgotten outpost of New York City Once a bustling … to be a parklike cemetery like GreenWood in Brooklyn or Woodlawn in the Bronx Plots cost $7 and according to  … is a popular movie and television location Bruce Waynes parents and Spidermans Uncle Ben are buried there and it is …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 14, 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
Explore Newark's unsung historic districts

… redevelopment Tom Ankner a librarian in Newarks public library and a resident of the Ironbound Districtnot …

By Lana Bortolot |August 10, 2017 - 2:14PM
Chester Court: A cul-de-sac in Brooklyn that feels like the U.K.'s Cotswolds

… Peter J Collins was a man with a housing plan When in the early 20th century he designed and … Court a culdesac with a row of nine houses on each side off Brooklyns Flatbush Avenue between Fenimore and Hawthorne … access to the area had been established and Prospect Park had been created so all signals were go for real estate …

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