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

… 40 houses in the row were built by the same firm Brownstone was beginning to go out of fashion by 1906 when the … Home Building Association a group of Finnish immigrants who pooled their money to create the first notforprofit coop … created under the charge of thenParks Commissioner Robert Moses  owls head park … An effort to obtain city landmark …

By Marjorie Cohen |October 26, 2017 - 9:00AM
Alexander Avenue in the South Bronx is home to the borough's oldest townhouses

… term for these blocks at the time reflecting the ethnicity of the majority of the residents back then The glory … slums stacking the displaced in spiritless public housing towers and sealing them behind a rampart of expressways Now … the statue of Lincoln that sits in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC and in New York City  the Maine Monument at …

By Marjorie Cohen |October 3, 2017 - 3:00PM
Explore Newark's unsung historic districts

… and his troops when they retreated from the British in 1776 The aptly named Washington and Military parks are where … numerous statues the most famous of which is Wars of America by the same sculptor who created Mount Rushmore …

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