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The homes with the scariest ghost and murder stories in NYC

Because Brooklynite Brian Hartig delves into the history of old New York homes every day, he comes across a few ghost stories. The founder of The Brownstone Detectives, a for-hire research team that f... read more

Wanna know the latest Brooklyn Heights house prices?

Area property values would take a hit. Neighborhood residents and civic ... Industrialist Charles Engelhard is at far right. AP File Photo A home in a cozy cul-de-sac In May, an LLC with Lee Bergstein ... read more

South Sudan’s Butchers Are Exempt From Punishment

Ben Curtis/AP photo. At top — South Sudanese government soldiers ... The war’s disregarded casualties attest to the way life has been stripped of value in the country. The disinterest in the human cos... read more

The Complicated Business of Placemaking in a Place That Already Exists

Gary Mayor Karen Wilson-Freeman (AP Photo/Joe Raymond, File ... of urban neighborhoods are being reshaped by influxes of more affluent residents, with property values rising and new amenities catering ... read more

The football team that won its league and lost its opponents

Poggi doesn't have to work another day in his life. He doesn't ... John Middlebrook/CSM/AP Photo FRANCIS XAVIER POGGI was born in 1959 and essentially raised in Baltimore's Little Italy, the product o... read more

Inside Operation Trump, the Most Unorthodox Campaign in Political History

It looked like an abandoned construction site ... campaign convention manager. Photo: Charlie Neibergall/AP/Jim Young/Reuters One way in which Trump’s campaign is like others is that its advisers have ... read more

Dudley Buck's Forgotten Cryotron Computer

I enjoy working with the human values as well as the engineering values.” Despite the many commitments of a rich personal life, Buck poured enormous energy ... He also searched for materials with dram... read more

Old Kent Road: More Than A Monopoly Metaphor

When the owner, property developer Russell Gray ... Legend is that the gun was originally trained on the council offices. Inside the tank. Photo by the author. Neighbours love their tank and came out ... read more

Why the ‘Greening’ of Vacant Land Is a Smart Long-Term Investment in Cities

These structures can devastate the neighborhood, undermine the neighbors’ quality of life, diminish the value of nearby properties ... owners of vacant lots to loan their property to the cause. (AP Ph... read more

Uncovering Rizokarpaso

Mention Rizokarpaso and the image is inevitably of a sad, derelict, remote village, which was home to the dwindling numbers of Greek Cypriot enclaved ... photographs of life on the island appeared, th... read more

AYS DAILY DIGEST 31/7: Balkan route — busy and active again, despite closed borders

You can change that status to be a better person in life.” Yiech, memebr of Team Refugees. Photo UNHCR. More than 120 bodies of ... Thodoris Dritsas, Greek shipping and island policy minister, told th... read more

This man owns the largest collection of Nazi artifacts

He lives in Leicestershire, England, where he looks after the property ... in my life,” he said, “I don’t show many people the collection, because not many people can understand the motives behind it, ... read more