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The neighborhood, known as New York's first suburb, is a place where 'people want to stay forever.' Deborah Hallen first visited Brooklyn Heights as a member of an amateur chamber [...]

This 1.5-mile-long island, with ''a beach on almost every block,'' may feel like small-town New England, but it's part of the city. When Wendy Yang Clark first arrived on City [...]

This 1.5-mile-long island, with “a beach on almost every block,” may feel like small-town New England, but it’s part of the city. When Wendy Yang Clark first arrived on City [...]

Some residents resent efforts to brand the area as a separate space within Harlem, but it's clearly a neighborhood in transition: ''Everywhere you look, there's construction.'' From her South Harlem [...]

The West Side neighborhood once known as the printing district is now the site of lots of new development. But housing is still slightly less expensive than in nearby areas. [...]

In recent years, the country's 'most famous immigrant neighborhood' has welcomed new high-end development. But it still has an old-school vibe. Richard Kimmel was drawn to the Lower East Side [...]

The area's walk-ups have been joined by upscale new development, drawing those priced out of other areas -- but it's 'not as cheap as people think.' Tucked behind the playhouses [...]

New developments are making the area denser and more expensive. But residents say it's still a friendly neighborhood where people want to settle down. Edward Soloway was impressed by the [...]

The Harlem neighborhood that Langston Hughes praised in 1944 is still one of the 'best-kept secrets in New York.' But it's not quite as affordable as it once was. Langston [...]

The area is filled with office workers and tourists, but it's also becoming more popular with buyers and renters. Marta Wöhrle and her husband, Pascal Volle, were relocating to New [...]

The 14th Street busway has turned one of the city's busiest streets into an open boulevard, and most of those who live nearby are enthusiastic. When Phillip Hersh and his [...]

Nearly three years after the Second Avenue subway opened, the neighborhood has grown in appeal. Residents say it was worth the wait. The opening of the Second Avenue subway on [...]

It's been 37 years since Susan Simon, fresh out of college and still living with her parents in New Jersey, attended a classmate's wedding in a residential building on Central [...]

Christina Roccos and her husband, Martin Smithmyer, looked ''all over the city for an interesting space that was not boxy,'' Ms. Roccos said, before they settled, in 2008, on a [...]

Shanghai was the only option. That was what my parents discovered when they fled Hitler's Germany. By the time they left, in separate journeys, they wound up in that international [...]

Slava Hazin had never heard of Riverside Boulevard when his wife, Karen, ''found an ad for this brand-new condo,'' he said, and ''dragged'' him there a dozen years ago. They [...]

Although the term NoMad has been used intermittently for about two decades to refer to the area immediately north of Madison Square Park, many New Yorkers remain unfamiliar with it [...]

Once a landfill and a set of dilapidated piers, Battery Park City has grown during its 50-year history into a vibrant community that one resident recently likened to a resort [...]

Sometimes Libbie Rice finds herself blissfully alone as she walks the forested trails of Inwood Hill Park. ''I just spend time up there by myself,'' said Ms. Rice, an acupuncturist [...]

Set on hilly terrain above the Hudson River, the Upper Manhattan neighborhood of Hudson Heights lives up to its name geographically. Rents and sale prices, however, are relatively low, attractive [...]

When Sally Greenspan moved into a converted notions factory on West 20th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues 35 years ago, the area was industrial, she recalled, with few shops, [...]

Murray Hill is a fast-growing area where many sleek new buildings have recently opened, or will soon. But most of the new structures, including high-rise condos and rental buildings, are [...]

Only three blocks long, Central Park South is lined on one side with busy buildings, where people live in apartments that are mostly pricey and often glamorous. Squirrels and statues [...]

106 Central Park South, No. 8J A studio condo with three closets, including a walk-in, an in-unit washer-dryer and south-facing windows in Trump Parc, a building with 24-hour doormen and [...]

Jules Feiffer sat on the sidelines quietly watching as actors sang, danced and manipulated puppets representing superhero characters that he had drawn. Then he leaned slightly left toward Jeffrey Seller, [...]

Paul Higgins and his wife, Michelle, moved into a one-bedroom third-floor walk-up on Third Avenue in the Lenox Hill neighborhood two years ago, attracted by the abundant public transportation as [...]

The first weekend that Layla Law-Gisiko and her family stepped out of their new apartment in the Flatiron district, after moving from the far less commercial West Village, Ms. Law-Gisiko [...]

The view was the first thing to grab Nicole Anasenes's attention when she entered a 10th-floor apartment facing Central Park in 2007. ''As soon as I walked in, I knew [...]

Carnegie Hill seemed ''very staid'' to Neil Runyon, a 54-year-old licensed massage therapist, when he and his wife, Celeste Torello, 50, a senior director of communications for Pfizer, the pharmaceutical [...]

When Sally and Fred Burgess wanted to downsize in 2007, after their children left home, their first thought was to move to Center Moriches, a seaside hamlet in Suffolk County [...]

In 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy won one of the closest presidential elections in history, beating Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Also, birth control pills became available. In 1963, President [...]

Catchy tunes and a clever plot helped make ''Mamma Mia!'' a 14-year-long hit on Broadway, and those qualities continue to provide buoyancy for the production at the John W. Engeman [...]

Michael Arden, an inventive director, tries to put new spins on ''My Fair Lady'' at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. Fortunately, he cannot resist the core charms of [...]

Priscilla, for those who don't already know, is the name of the bus that carries two female impersonators and a transsexual woman across the Australian outback from Sydney to Alice [...]

The Christmas tree tucked into a corner of the living room depicted on the stage of the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor is not particularly large. Its significance, however, [...]

When Rene Green bought her two-bedroom apartment at Prince and Elizabeth Streets in 1985, her friends and her brother warned her about living in what they called a slum. She [...]

A German flag with a barely noticeable strip of lace added to its bottom serves as a stage curtain at the beginning of ''The Underpants,'' a comedy adapted by Steve [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDOpera ''expresses what can't be spoken,'' explains one of the characters in ''The Forgotten Woman,'' Jonathan Tolins's brilliantly insightful play having its world premiere at the Bay Street Theater [...]

As you watch ''Thoroughly Modern Millie,'' it is difficult to remember that the old-fashioned musical set in 1922 dates only to a 2002 Broadway debut. Its staging at the John [...]

If you try to imagine a grown-up Annie, of the musical by that name, you might easily find her to be a lot like Reno Sweeney, the lead character of [...]

What's going on -- a phrase, a question, a song lyric -- is one of the themes explored in ''The Night Alive,'' a gritty and very much alive play by [...]

On the outside, the house at 43 Suffolk Street in Sag Harbor, N.Y., was designed to blend in with nearby homes that were built in the 18th century. Inside, it [...]

Brooklyn or SoHo? The choice ''was a complete no-brainer,'' said Tali Livni, who grabbed a one-bedroom co-op apartment in 2014 for $475,000 on Thompson Street in SoHo, though it was [...]

The art exhibition at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook contains works that span about 80 years -- and they are by one artist, who is still working. That [...]

A goofy white guy who has trouble keeping a job as a stock boy finds success as a radio D.J. A gifted black singer stuck in her brother's underground club [...]

Louis Begley sat at the dining room table in his light-filled Sagaponack house, carefully comparing the text of his newest book, ''Kill and Be Killed,'' with the German translation on [...]

What a difference 500 years make -- in artistic styles, techniques and sensibilities. The oldest piece in the ''In Print'' exhibition now at the Hofstra University Museum is ''Christ and [...]

The doors to a small but powerful new exhibition at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County in Glen Cove are usually kept closed. The barrier is meant [...]

His paintings were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. His circle of friends included Jackson Pollock, Willem [...]

When Deborah Lavaia's husband, Marc, suggested moving to Long Island City from TriBeCa in 2008, ''it was not on my radar screen at all,'' she said. But Mr. Lavaia, 42, [...]