With its stately homes and green spaces, Victorian Flatbush has attracted everyone from silent movie stars to current Hollywood A-listers

… Dont tell a homeowner in Prospect Park South that he lives in Ditmas Park Victorian Flatbush is teeming … approached one of the engineers Charles Potts who also lived in the neighborhood Potts proposed placing the tracks … Mary Pickford and Fatty Arbuckle lived in an apartment building Fairbanks had the penthouse on the corner of Ocean …

By Georgia Kral |December 2, 2016 - 9:59AM
A row of 12 houses near Audubon Park has a fascinating history—but do they have a future?

… six and since then the HDC has been holding our hands and helping us through the complexities of the community process …

By Marjorie Cohen |July 28, 2016 - 12:15PM
Discovering Ocean Grove: religious camps, Suffragettes, and so much more

… tent city primarily in the summer … Campers back then didnt live in houses and cottages Instead they camped out …

By S. Jhoanna Robledo |June 17, 2016 - 9:59AM
Jumel Terrace: A neighborhood with a connection to Hamilton—the man and the musical

… 30 years according to the Landmarks report Kurt Thometz has lived in the district for 12 years where until recently he … Landmarks  it is the oldest house in Manhattan a handsome building twoandahalf stories high typically Georgian in … who some believe spurned a marriage proposal from Washingtonlived in the house they called Mount Morris until 1775 when …

By Marjorie Cohen |June 6, 2016 - 8:59AM
Five residential buildings with fascinating past lives

… ill In 1887 the New York World journalist Nellie Bly was asked by her editor Joseph Pulitzer to feign mental illness … Today the LEED certified  apartment complex is home to 500 rentals with floortoceiling views of the Manhattan skyline … … in the area but it began its life as something very different the home of a newspaper Though its hard to imagine a …

By Alanna Schubach |April 25, 2016 - 8:59AM
A Harlem street with a "quiet Southern town" vibe shines again

… 1928 novel all attest to the creativity and resilience of New Yorkers 1 T … he story begins with William Astor … In … further and further north the fashionable folks began to buy homes in the area according to the Landmarks … but Holtzman who is an architect figured that they could live in it while they fixed it up The asking price was …

By Marjorie Cohen |April 19, 2016 - 8:59AM
Tudor City: The peaceful East 40s enclave that's more than just its architecture

… unusual sense of community Singer Raissa Katona Bennett has lived in Tudor City since 1999 and relishes the tranquility  … post office but the quiet convenience and beautiful brick buildings with their landmarked facades and casement windows … store  They were considered piedáterres  for those who lived in the city during the week but spent weekends in the …

By Claire Wilson |March 16, 2016 - 8:59AM