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?

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

… one the most interesting neighborhoods in upper Manhattan and it happens to be full of history Thats probably … … … Tonydarling Miranda wrote two of his blockbusters songs Wait For it and The Room Where It Happens in Aaron … raged on … The Jumel mansion was built as a country house by Colonel Roger Morris a loyalist sympathizer in 1765 …

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

… Scrape away at almost any old building in NYC and youll find layers of history The citys many incarnations are visible in the fading signs on the sides of buildings in … and was home to a prison an asylum and a smallpox hospital The mental hospital known as Blackwells Island …

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