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… to find in New York these days A few blocks from the Dekalb Avenue L station just over the Brooklyn border in Ridgewood … but has kept the name it was given at its founding in 1853 On the churchs website the pastor explains until the late … created the golden yellow bricks that once paved Manhattans Park Avenue when it was truly known as The Yellow Brick Road …

… a slice of Long Island City bordered by Calvary Cemetery the Long Island Expressway and Newtown Creek is a roughhewn … a light sprinkling of homes and storefronts and much of the building stock dates back to the 19th century Calvary … in Greenpoint today according to local historian Geoff Cobb there is no plaque to identify it  Nor is there any …

… off the corner of Fourth Avenue the 300 block of Senator Street is the only block in Bay Ridge with brownstones on … are set back from the street have bow fronts small front yards high stoops and garden entrances The lion heads carved … Historic District but that designation doesnt guarantee the exteriors of the homes on the block will stay intact For …

… unchanged on Alexander Avenue between 137th and 141st streets Directly off of the Third Avenue138th Street 6 stop … preservation at Columbia University The houses between 139th and 140th streets built in the 1860s are the first and … from Alexander to his eponymous avenue one block over   James L Wells who held a number of elected and appointed …

… To many Newark NJ is the name in front of an airport a place for a Portuguese food crawl … opened on the ground floor … Newark was once mansion central … You may not think of mansions as synonymous with … once  de rigueur  in the Forest Hill Historic District The neighborhood was home to industrial tycoons such as the …

… Collins started building the Brooklyn Bridge was up railroad access to the area had been established and Prospect … wellknown Brooklynite Colson Whitehead author the 2016 National Book Awardwinning novel Underground Railroad  lived … if your own space is too confining   Among the nofee apartments that are vacant are 10J a onebedroom for …