Roots to Roofs: The East End Potato Barn Conversions
Long Island’s East End once fed New York City with potatoes. Now those same cavernous barns house wine collections, lap pools, and seven-figure price tags.
From Printing Press to Penthouses: The Eagle Warehouse
Walt Whitman edited a newspaper on this site. Later it held heavy storage. Today it holds million-dollar co-ops. The Eagle Warehouse at 28 Old Fulton Street holds all three stories in its mortar.
Sweet Sweat: The Domino Sugar Factory Next Life
For over a century, the Domino Sugar Refinery defined Williamsburg’s skyline and broke bodies doing it. Today it’s offices, apartments, and a riverfront park. The brick is the same.
The North Shore’s Lost Jazz Age: When Duke Ellington Played Gold Coast Mansions and Nobody Wrote It Down
Before the Hamptons, the North Shore’s Gold Coast estates hired Black jazz musicians to play for white money — and left almost no record behind. Here’s what we know.
The Nameless Masons of the Gold Coast
The Vanderbilts and Kahns get the brass plaques. The brick and stone of Oheka Castle and Long Island’s Gold Coast estates were laid by immigrant workers whose names nobody recorded.
Time and Brick: The Sag Harbor Watchcase Factory
The Bulova Watchcase Factory in Sag Harbor operated for nearly a century. By 2014, it was 64 luxury condos. What happens when industrial memory meets Hamptons money?
