Marjorie Cohen
Marjorie Cohen is a New York City-based freelance journalist, editor and author of over seven non-fiction books. Her real estate reporting has appeared in amNewYork, Investopedia, and The West Side Rag. Since moving to New York five decades ago for graduate school at the Teachers College of Columbia University, Marjorie has lived on the Upper West Side, with a brief detour to West 15th Street when she got six months free rent in a new building. Her current apartment is rent-stabilized and she is never, ever, going to willingly leave it.
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Brenda MacLeish has been working as a designer for California Closets for over 10 years and is now also the sales manager for the New York area franchise.
For our 10-minute interview, we spoke to her from her car, where she was dashing from one assignment to another.
What does California Closets do? Mostly organize clients' closets?
Lou Manganiello, owner of Strachman on the Upper West Side, is in the business of selling and installing window treatments, shower doors, mirrors, glass and radiator covers to New Yorkers.
On a busy Saturday morning, he fielded phone calls, waited on walk-in customers, joked with neighbors and showed us photos of his days as a power lifter hoisting a 470 pound barbell.
Just as everyone loves a good super, supers love good residents. Recently, we talked to a much-beloved super in an Upper West Side rental building. He appreciates the tenants' gratitude, sure, but would like them to show it by avoiding these eight things that drive him nuts....
- Time changes things and when I bought my two-bedroom apartment I was fine with the smaller spaces, now I want big and open and modern.
