A postcard of Fort Greene might show row after row of tightly packed brownstones, dating back to the 1850s, with views over leafy avenues. On Vanderbilt, No. 208 is only four blocks off the park, near the corner at Willoughby — a closed street that’s a su... See more
In the spring of 2018, Jeffrey Epstein got an email from his neighbor at the time, Howard Lutnick, then the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald. “Are you aware as to them building to block our park views,” Lutnick wrote as Annabelle Selldorf’s now-widely-praised des... See more
When Colin Faber and Leni Niemegeers-Faber bought their carriage house in 2009, they had been looking for a place to serve two functions: home and showcase. The married architects run a design firm, SHED Studio, and wanted to give clients a sense of what ... See more
The house with the blue door on Wyckoff Street, in Boerum Hill, got more mail than the neighbors’ homes. Envelopes heavy with manuscripts arrived at the ground-floor entrance, piling up on the dining table by the window, which doubled as a slush pile for ... See more
For the music critic John Rockwell, Soho was an ideal home base. He could walk to see performances by Meredith Monk or Steve Reich in lofts that didn’t look so different from the one he lived in at 543 Broadway. A Philip Glass concert, on Wooster Street i... See more