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

… Pratt Institute and before designing most of Ridgewood apprenticed at the renowned Beaux Arts firm Carrere Hastings … brokers will kill to get a listing If youre looking for a rental theres one nearby at 253 Stockholm St which although … bath in a sixunit building and you can bring your pets … Asking rent … $2500   … You Might Also Like … …

By Marjorie Cohen |January 26, 2018 - 9:00AM
Pirates, glue factories, and mob graves: Blissville is Queens's dumping ground

… in 2015 to petition for a public park in the area he asked how many people in the room had heard of Blissville … is a popular movie and television location Bruce Waynes parents and Spidermans Uncle Ben are buried there and it is … when he drove through the neighborhood and saw a For Rent sign He parked found the owner of the place negotiated …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 14, 2017 - 9:00AM
Senator Street in Bay Ridge: A historic block without landmark protections

… Two short blocks from the justrenovated Bay Ridge Parkway subway stop on the R line youll find … Avenue the 300 block of Senator Street is the only block in Bay Ridge with brownstones on both sides of the block At … to build the houses on spec At the turn of the century Bay Ridge was starting to attract middle class buyers …

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

… for the areas decline on just one person but the Village Voice did just that in an article naming infrastructure … section chose the neighborhood as number 51 on a list of 52 places to go in 2017 they cited its new artisanal coffee … kept his ties to the neighborhood his funeral was held in 1952 at St Jeromes Church at the corner of 137th Street in …

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