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:
Is construction coming to your NYC block? Here’s how to organize your building and protect your quality of life
February 6, 2020 - 12:00 PM
As a veteran of many NYC community-organizing efforts describes how to organize your neighbors in response to major construction projects.
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These three Upper West Siders live next door to a hellish construction project. Here's what it's like
January 8, 2020 - 13:00 PM
If you live near a construction project, it can be a completely different, never-ending “hellish” experience. Brick Underground reached out to three people who live next to the site of Shaare Zedek, a nearly 100-year-old synagogue at 212 West 93rd St. on the Upper West Side, which was torn down at the end of 2018 to make way for a 14-story, luxury condo building. Here are their stories.
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Edward Norton’s ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ recalls how Robert Moses reshaped NYC in his own image
November 25, 2019 - 14:00 PM
In “Motherless Brooklyn,” writer, producer, director, and star Edward Norton transplants the action from the original 1990’s Brooklyn setting of author Jonathan Lethem’s book to 1950’s Brooklyn. The shift in setting allows Norton to include a major real estate villain, a master builder, and bully intent on reshaping New York City to fulfill his own singular vision, who is played by Alec Baldwin.
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Relocating to New York City—or know someone who is? FAQs brokers can (and can't) answer
June 27, 2019 - 15:00 PM
Here's the most common questions brokers get asked by people relocating to NYC.
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Living across the street from an SRO isn't what you think
June 20, 2019 - 10:30 AM
Residents united behind the effort to reclaim the block and, through a skillful combination of demonstrations, political and legal maneuvers, managed to wrest the SRO building away from the owners who seemed intent on making conditions so miserable. Now, for the most part, our SRO neighbors are just that, neighbors.
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Believe it or not, May 1st was once moving day for the entire city
May 1, 2019 - 10:00 AM
May1 used to be moving day for thousands of New York City residents in the 18th and 19th century, and by the beginning of the 20th century, about a million locals were switching abodes in just 24 hours. Talk about chaos.
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