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Neighborhood Intel
Think you know Brooklyn? This author has walked every single block in the borough
By Virginia K. Smith |October 11, 2016 - 2:59PM
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Rent
Here's proof that NYC's middle class has been getting squeezed out since the 1870s
By Virginia K. Smith |September 23, 2016 - 12:59PM
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Neighborhood Intel
Author Steven Gaines on dingy downtown lofts, renting out to porn filmmakers to make ends meet, and why living in NYC is an "honor"
By Virginia K. Smith |July 7, 2016 - 11:59AM
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Beach
Serious beach reads: 5 New York-centric books to pack on your next vacation
By Alanna Schubach |May 30, 2016 - 10:15AM
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Live
"The Brooklyn Experience": Then and now
By Lucy Cohen Blatter |May 17, 2016 - 8:59AM
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Neighborhood Intel
Author Jennifer Wright knows Murray Hill as well as she knows breakups
By Lucy Cohen Blatter |December 1, 2015 - 12:59PM
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Neighborhood Intel
Apartment Therapy's Maxwell Ryan made the move to brownstone Brooklyn, but still has love for lofts
By Virginia K. Smith |November 24, 2015 - 8:59AM
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Improve
The Author of 'St. Marks Is Dead' on the $200 Apartment She Grew Up In and What Made Her Move to Brooklyn
By Kelly Kreth |October 29, 2015 - 9:59AM
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Neighborhood Intel
Author Kathleen Alcott on why Brooklyn is for writers, her ex-super with a meth problem, and more
By Kelly Kreth |October 2, 2015 - 8:59AM
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Neighborhood Intel
YA author Carolyn Mackler once lived in a shrink's office—and lived to tell the tale

… a therapists office and more … 1 What neighborhood do you live in … Upper West Side in the low 100s … 2 Is this your …  Weve got the gorgeous prewars and the charming brownstones and businesses and great public schoolsand also … to NYC I lived in a therapists office  Someone knew someone who knew an elderly therapist who wasnt using her office …

By Virginia K. Smith |September 1, 2015 - 10:30AM