Marjorie Cohen
Contributing writer
Marjorie Cohen is a New York City-based freelance journalist, editor and author of over seven non-fiction books. Her real estate reporting has appeared in amNewYork, Investopedia, and The West Side Rag. Since moving to New York five decades ago for graduate school at the Teachers College of Columbia University, Marjorie has lived on the Upper West Side, with a brief detour to West 15th Street when she got six months free rent in a new building. Her current apartment is rent-stabilized and she is never, ever, going to willingly leave it.
Posts by Marjorie Cohen:
A home-inspection checklist if you're buying a NYC condo or co-op
September 21, 2021 - 16:30 PM
Home inspections for buyers of NYC apartments have become more prevalent in recent years. Here's a home inspection checklist for New Yorkers buying co-op or condos.
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Crown Heights: The insider's guide to living there
June 21, 2021 - 13:30 PM
Interested in living in Crown Heights? Here's what locals say about housing in the neighborhood, plus what there is to do, where they go to eat, how they get around—and how they were impacted by the pandemic.
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Richmond Hill, Queens: The insider's guide to living there
May 10, 2021 - 09:30 AM
Brick checked in with residents of Richmond Hill in Queens to see how they fared in the pandemic as part of our Neighborhood Secrets series.
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My family left NYC during the pandemic and we're staying away for one more year
May 3, 2021 - 13:30 PM
Like a lot of New Yorkers, Deborah and her family made the decision to leave New York City in the early part of the pandemic. But now, as NYC takes steps toward fully reopening, her family decided to stay put in a house in a small town in southern Connecticut that they bought almost a year ago. Here’s her story.
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Central Harlem: The insider's guide to living there
April 22, 2021 - 12:30 PM
Harlem is a neighborhood of stark contrasts, with blocks of well-tended brownstones and luxury rentals, and also some vacant lots.
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The Concourse: The insider's guide to living there
March 23, 2021 - 12:30 PM
For an insider take on the Concourse, the guy to talk to is Samuel M. Goodman, who grew up on the Grand Concourse, the stately five-mile thoroughfare that gives the area its name. It is a working-class community, and many of its residents are front line workers who have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
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