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

… neighborhoods in upper Manhattan and it happens to be full of history Thats probably why LinManuel Miranda chose the … raged on … The Jumel mansion was built as a country house by Colonel Roger Morris a loyalist sympathizer in 1765 … because there wasnt enough room for a sitdown dinner inside  According to a recent book entitled MorrisJumel …

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

… 5000 apartments and 40 acres of land its known as  LeFrak City The privatelyowned rental community which stands at the … being renovated more on that below LeFrak has also built Newport on the Jersey City waterfront but this is their … affordable housing and its still rather affordable by New York standards … When the LeFrak City was built in the 1960s …

By Lucy Cohen Blatter |May 25, 2016 - 8:59AM
The Upper West Side's Clebourne building is one of the neighborhood's historic crown jewels

… whose name is spelled in many city and historical documents without the o as in Cleburne sits on the plot of land where … barn for cows and goats and according to Untapped Cities  a small baseball field for the use of their children  In the … sold in January for $475 million  … 4 Its smallest apartments were huge … If you were in the market for a …

By Marjorie Cohen |March 23, 2016 - 8:59AM