When luxury condos and artisanal bakeries move into New York City neighborhoods, Bond No. 9 sometimes follows.

Ms. Durbin brought her pithy and often politically barbed style to a range of subjects that included film reviews and a stint writing a popular column in Mademoiselle magazine called “The Intelligent ...

A collection of indelible photographs, maps and “intimate guides” from 1807 to 1940 went beyond extolling the virtues of the ...