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

… Though they were once common brickpaved streets are pretty hard to find in New York these … me in its own way of when I first experienced the dazzling golden glory of the Golden City of Salamanca in Spain Not the buildings but the color of light that the street emanated he …

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

… industrial hub most of Blissville today is occupied by warehouses auto repair shops and yes there are still some …

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

… pooled their money to create the first notforprofit coop in NYC The Brooklyn Eagle described Eisenlas firm as being … that can change at any time without the protection of the LPC That is why in 2006 some residents of the block … Districts Council  and Community Board 10 applied for LPC designation Simeon Bankoff executive director of the …

By Marjorie Cohen |October 26, 2017 - 9:00AM
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 Third Avenue138th Street 6 stop the strip includes row houses … Washington DC and in New York City  the Maine Monument at Columbus Circle the lions at the New York Public Library New …

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

… To many Newark NJ is the name in front of an airport a place for a Portuguese food crawl or the passing backdrop for the … Districts include Forest Hill Four Corners James Street Commons Lincoln Park Military Park Commons North Broad … and de facto town center that hosts concerts a green market yoga and outdoor movies It also features numerous …

By Lana Bortolot |August 10, 2017 - 2:14PM
MacDougal Alley: A small downtown mews filled with NYC art history

… Few New York City streets can genuinely be called mews but MacDougal Alley a culdesac off MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village is one of them Unlike some of the buildings that have … benefactor Alfonso Ossorio also an abstract expressionist painter of the time Isamu Noguchi after a voluntary stay in …

By Marjorie Cohen |March 14, 2017 - 2:59PM
Chester Court: A cul-de-sac in Brooklyn that feels like the U.K.'s Cotswolds

… Whitehead author the 2016 National Book Awardwinning novel Underground Railroad  lived on Chester Court from 2003 to … the only American who has felt that way about the town  Not long ago Chester was voted the fifth prettiest city in … of the rest of the block  Constructed of the same red brick used for the homes and embellished with pilasters and …

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