T.M. Brown

New research shows that the gap between income and home values has grown at an astounding rate over the past 50 years.When baby boomers were buying their first homes in the 1970s and 1980s, it wasn’t unusual to take on a double-digit interest rate on a 30-year mortgage. And yet, buying a home still felt

The estate of Maurice Kanbar, an entrepreneur, is selling his Upper East Side home. There is an art gallery on the first two floors and four vacant rental apartments upstairs.Maurice Kanbar never saw the sense in accepting things as they were. The lifelong inventor and entrepreneur, who died in 2022 at age 93, developed, among

After spending three decades moving around the country while working in K-12 education, Jeanine Molock found herself back in her hometown, New York City, in 2015.Dr. Molock had returned to care for her ailing mother, who was shortly thereafter diagnosed with lung cancer. She took a job as an institutional research manager at LaGuardia Community

Gina and Steven Brown met 50 years ago in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where they grew up around the corner from each other. It would be another 49 years before they married.“We’ve known each other since we were 5 and 6 years old,” said Mrs. Brown, now 55. “He always likes to tell the story that