“SoBro” flows effortlessly off the tongue as though it were part of a nursery rhyme. But the story of this neighborhood—from “hell on earth” to a hip locale—is more complex than the name lets on. For generations, SoBro, traditionally known as Mott Haven, was a crime-infested junkyard. In the 1950s and 60s, poor immigrant families [...]
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A Sense of Historical Place
When was the last time you questioned the history of the buildings in your nabe? Many of the structures in our cities have been reinvented a hundred times over becoming what we see today. Old buildings are often juxtaposed with new ones, giving us a comparison of the past and the present. In downtown New [...]
Deconstructing The New York Brownstone
The gals of “Sex and the City” may be trendsetters in fashion, but when it comes to brownstone living, the Huxtables were there first. Bill Cosby and his television family lived in a classic Brooklyn brownstone long before Carrie Bradshaw nabbed her apartment on the Upper East Side. But while both “The Cosby Show” and [...]
