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:
Ridgewood, Queens: The insider's guide to living there
February 23, 2021 - 12:30 PM
Many of Ridgewood's side streets are lined with single-family homes and almost all have stoops. A few decades ago, Friday night was clean-your-stoop time, and that’s when neighbors socialized on their stoops. These same stoops brought this Queens neighborhood together again during the pandemic.
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Brighton Beach: The insider’s guide to living there
February 9, 2021 - 13:30 PM
Now, although the Russian influence in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, is still extremely strong, there are many different cultures who call the neighborhood home.
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Inwood: The insider's guide to Manhattan's northernmost neighborhood
January 20, 2021 - 12:30 PM
Inwood’s skyline is predominantly low-rise, with a mix of single-family brick houses and five- to eight-story apartment buildings, most built in the first half of the 20th century. A proposed rezoning could change all that and, in spite of energetic opposition from residents, is expected to go forward.
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Greenpoint, Brooklyn: The insider’s guide to living there
January 8, 2021 - 12:30 PM
Brick Underground takes a close look at Greenpoint, Brooklyn, what's like to live there, and how the neighborhood has fared in the pandemic.
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What the entrances of NYC luxury and historic buildings tell us about who lives there
November 4, 2020 - 10:30 AM
First impressions convey a great deal, and for that reason author Andrew Alpern looks at entrances to New York City’s luxury and historic residential buildings in his new book, “Posh Portals: Elegant Entrances and Ingratiating Ingresses to Apartments for the Affluent in New York City.”
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Here are 5 houses on the Connecticut shore you can rent this summer
June 26, 2020 - 09:30 AM
Often overlooked by New Yorkers as a vacation destination, towns along the Sound are interesting, scenic, and historically rich. And the cost of a rental in any of these towns will most likely be dramatically less than what you’d pay on the Jersey Shore or the Hamptons.
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