Alexander Avenue in the South Bronx is home to the borough's oldest townhouses

… are still standing many nearly unchanged on Alexander Avenue between 137th and 141st streets Directly off of the … protect what is already here … The South Bronx was once the North Side  … On New Years Eve 1873 with the booming of guns … in Riverside Park and statues on the cornice line of the Brooklyn Museum   Theodore Roosevelt and Fiorello LaGuardia …

By Marjorie Cohen |October 3, 2017 - 3:00PM
5 secrets of Harlem's Sugar Hill

… of a circus impresario How often do you get to use that term But the place fell into disrepair over the decades when … got so bad that at one point the mansion was overrun by a pack of wild dogs but after being sold in 2009 for $14 … plateau within the Hamilton Heights area or as the Times termed it back in 2004 a bluff high above the Harlem Plain …

By Virginia K. Smith |February 24, 2017 - 12:59PM
Looking back at Harlem's history as a major Jewish enclave

… Nearly 40 years ago Jeffrey Gurock now the Libby M Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University wrote When … actually lived there Baseball player and World War II spy Moe Berg who was born in Harlem may qualify a film about his …

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