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Category: Neighborhoods

Neighborhoods Living the Loft Life
2008 July Living the Loft Life

If only I had had an extra $100,000 25 years ago. (OK—an extra $100,000, today would be good too.) But that’s what I kept thinking as I sat chatting with Oliver Allen, a retired journalist and author who is now a regular contributor to h…

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Neighborhoods From Amalgamated to Central Park West
2008 April From Amalgamated to Central Park West

Emma Lazarus perhaps said it best in her immortal poem in which she spoke about the wave of immigrants that were welcomed to American’s golden shores. Generation upon generation of newcomers have chosen to settle in New York City and its…

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Neighborhoods From Urban Renewal to Urban Luxury
2008 March From Urban Renewal to Urban Luxury

Affordable apartments with fresh air, good light, and attractively landscaped grounds for middle-income people—those were the goods Park West Village was created to deliver in the late 1950s and early 1960s as part of a government-s…

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Neighborhoods Cross-Roads Village to a Modern Suburbia
2008 Feb Cross-Roads Village to a Modern Suburbia

Back in 1900, a little village sprouted up on Long Island called "Comac" along the Huntington/Smithtown town line. Located in the little hollow created by the gently rolling hills that surrounded the intersection of Jericho Turnpike and the…

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Neighborhoods The Largest Cooperative in Queens
2008 Jan The Largest Cooperative in Queens

In 1939, when the WPA Guide to New York Citywas first published, South Queens, and particularly the area around what would become Rochdale Village, had little to recommend the visitor. "Springfield, Laurelton and Rosedale, at the so…

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Neighborhoods Rego Park, Queens
2007 Dec Rego Park, Queens

Rego Park, Queens is a neighborhood that has seen many changes over the years. Once considered the suburbs, it is now a bustling community home to many families, a diverse population of immigrants from all over the world and a large numb…

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Neighborhoods Williamsburg's Most Recent Reinvention
2007 Nov Williamsburg's Most Recent Reinvention

Over the past 15 years, freelance photographer Simon Russell and his wife, Ann Delilkan, worked hard to make a home out of their small basement-level apartment on MacDougal Street. When "Men in Black" filmed in their neighborhood, R…

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