Take Five

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

By Georgia Kral |December 2, 2016 - 9:59AM

Neighborhood Intel

A row of 12 houses near Audubon Park has a fascinating history—but do they have a future?

… Like surprises If so take the number 1 train to Washington Heights get off at 157th Street walk one block north … rowhouses in New York and are architecturally very different from more common and predictable brownstones In fact …

By Marjorie Cohen |July 28, 2016 - 12:15PM

Beach

Discovering Ocean Grove: religious camps, Suffragettes, and so much more

By S. Jhoanna Robledo |June 17, 2016 - 9:59AM

Neighborhood Intel

Jumel Terrace: A neighborhood with a connection to Hamilton—the man and the musical

By Marjorie Cohen |June 6, 2016 - 8:59AM

Rent

Inside LeFrak City, a mega-rental community in Queens with affordable apartments

By Lucy Cohen Blatter |May 25, 2016 - 8:59AM

Neighborhood Intel

Five residential buildings with fascinating past lives

By Alanna Schubach |April 25, 2016 - 8:59AM

Neighborhood Intel

A Harlem street with a "quiet Southern town" vibe shines again

… of singlefamily houses with front yards and porches seems to belong more in a quiet Southern town than in the middle of Central Harlem says historian … on the top floorsbright with efficient spaceand two rentals a onebedroom on the garden floor and a twobedroom on …

By Marjorie Cohen |April 19, 2016 - 8:59AM

Neighborhood Intel

A hangout of 19th-century high society still stands on 11th Street (and you can live there, too)

… the pending list of the Landmarks Preservation Commission for more than 50 years In the mid1800s when cast iron came … closest thing the 19th century could come to it … 2 Its builder James McCreery was a model boss and businessman … … the bread line got its start … One of the businesses that leased space in the McCreery building was Fleischmanns …