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

… that both stops exist PS 139 at 330 Rugby Road opened in 1903 and area children had to cross over train tracks to get …

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?

… from 155th Street to 158th Street west of Broadway named for its most famous resident the naturalist and author John … James Audubon Audubon bought the generous parcel of land in 1841 and built a house at what is now 155th and … at least one of the houses could be demolished and a vacant lot stretching behind it and seven others in the row …

By Marjorie Cohen |July 28, 2016 - 12:15PM
Jumel Terrace: A neighborhood with a connection to Hamilton—the man and the musical

… Jumel Terrace Historic District is one the most interesting neighborhoods in upper Manhattan and it happens to be full … 1775 when the colonel fled to England  After the Battle of Long Island so disastrous for the Colonial Army Washington … prostitute and onetime indentured servant became one of the wealthiest women in 19thcentury America … In The Remarkable …

By Marjorie Cohen |June 6, 2016 - 8:59AM
Inside LeFrak City, a mega-rental community in Queens with affordable apartments

… City developments such as the 8755unit Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan and the 6318unit Rochdale Village in Jamaica … could go to the post office the supermarket or the cobbler they could go to the movies or in the summer swim at … on Woodhaven Boulevard from there its about 25 minutes into Manhattan and theres also an express bus to downtown …

By Lucy Cohen Blatter |May 25, 2016 - 8:59AM
Five residential buildings with fascinating past lives

… right With architect Paul E Duboy he built the Ansonia in 1903 as this indepth essay from Curbed reveals the hotel was …

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