Adriane Quinlan

Look up as you walk down Third Avenue near 13th Street and you’ll see a peculiar sight: a quaint country cottage plopped on a roof in the heart of NYU territory. The walls are cedar, the roofline is gabled, and boxwood hedges fence off terraces, putting i... See more

Gloria Steinem died at her home on East 73rd Street, a five-story brownstone she first arrived in as a renter with a roommate in 1967. The space — decorated with pattern-on-pattern multiculti richness that nodded to her start as a correspondent in India —... See more

The distinctive modernist homes that started going up on Fire Island in the 1960s became useful landmarks for visitors. There’s the TV House, Lincoln Center, and plenty of Horace Giffords, many of them visible from the beachfront or the shaded paths that ... See more

When a 20-year-old from Tennessee arrived in New York City for the first time this week and stepped onto Vanderbilt University’s new satellite campus in Chelsea, she looked around and saw more of the same: the same red 19th-century Gothic buildings she mi... See more

The winning proposal for a concession stand in Greenpoint’s WNYC Transmitter Park has done the unthinkable: united the newbies in the neighborhood’s waterfront condominiums with the holdouts who can remember the park when it didn’t have a speck of green a... See more