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While Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia presents the largest living history museum portraying 18th century American life, the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn embraces everything of 21st century life for shopping, entertainment, dining and living in the Big Apple.
Historic brick buildings, green parks and cobblestone streets mingle comfortably among ultra-chic boutiques, luxury high-rise residences, swank bars and restaurants and a few glittering skyscrapers.
New York City has a long, rich history of development since an early settlement around 1524.
Leave it to the Romans, again, to invent something useful like cobblestone streets.
Mirrors can enlarge spaces and make rooms feel brighter. If large enough, they can overwhelm any space and the people in it, feeling like life is taking place in a carnival hall of mirrors.
Riverside Blvd. is the new kid on the block for residential living, having been developed in the 1990s.
Coffered ceilings are an elegant architectural feature which have stood the test of time. They may have originally been designed as a more lightweight option to stone, while evoking a measure of formality.
In 1909, an inventive guy named Isaac Shero patented a hair straightener composed of two flat irons heated and pressed together, likely with formerly curly hair between them.
More than two centuries ago, Rose Hill was a farm on the banks of the East River with 260 apple trees and 9,000 young fruit trees.