Take Five

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

… neighborhood in Brooklyn beautiful mansionsized standalone homes with yards quiet pictureperfect streets unique … historian Ron Schweiger It is a misnomer Dont tell a homeowner in Prospect Park South that he lives in Ditmas … … 4 The area has always been home to celebrities … When news broke that Michelle Williams had bought a property …

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?

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

… you may have wondered about that huge cluster of red brick buildings you see when driving past Corona Queens With its 20 highrise buildings 5000 apartments and 40 acres of land its known as LeFrak City … in an amenityfilled community And it still is Today the apartments are nofee and many are rentstabilized those that …

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

Neighborhood Intel

Five residential buildings with fascinating past lives

… Scrape away at almost any old building in NYC and youll find … to learn about the coops and condos with fascinating past lives … The Octagon … Before it was Roosevelt Island the little strip of land in the East River between Queens and Manhattan was known as Blackwells Island and it …