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Follow the yellow brick: Tracing Ridgewood's history through a single picturesque block

By Marjorie Cohen |January 26, 2018 - 9:00AM

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

… by a group of Columbia University graduate students Peter Stuyvesant couldnt persuade anyone in New Amsterdam to … is now largely unknown and ignored even by those who live in the nearby neighborhoods of Long Island City and Greenpoint When Miguel Cavanzos who lived in Blissville for five years went before Community …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 14, 2017 - 9:00AM

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

By Marjorie Cohen |October 26, 2017 - 9:00AM

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

By Marjorie Cohen |October 3, 2017 - 3:00PM

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Explore Newark's unsung historic districts

By Lana Bortolot |August 10, 2017 - 2:14PM

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MacDougal Alley: A small downtown mews filled with NYC art history

By Marjorie Cohen |March 14, 2017 - 2:59PM

Neighborhood Intel

5 secrets of Harlem's Sugar Hill

By Virginia K. Smith |February 24, 2017 - 12:59PM

Neighborhood Intel

Looking back at Harlem's history as a major Jewish enclave

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

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Chester Court: A cul-de-sac in Brooklyn that feels like the U.K.'s Cotswolds

… chef of the Norm Restaurant at the Brooklyn Museum has lived for 10 years on Chester Court an 18minute walk from … 2016 National Book Awardwinning novel Underground Railroad lived on Chester Court from 2003 to 2005 Here are five more … been part of a land patent that had been granted by Peter Stuyvesant in 1661 In a separate transaction Vanderbilt sold …

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

Neighborhood Intel

Bertine Block : A small street in the Bronx that offers a window into 19th century NYC

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