Charles Lockwood, author of Bricks and Brownstone-- the "brownstone bible" according to the New York Times. The New Yorker described Lockwood as the consummate authority on New York City brownstones in a recent profile.

Read about Charles Lockwood and Bricks and Brownstone in the New Yorker magazine.

See pictures from Charles Lockwood's 2009 appearance on PBS's This Old House--the first episode of the show to be filmed in New York City.

Every brownstone has a history. What's yours? Get the real history about its construction residents over the years, and often historic photographs.

If your brownstone's walls could talk, these are the tales they would tell. Read More

Bricks and Brownstone was the first—and is still the only—book to examine in depth the history and varied architectural styles of New York’s townhouses, the growth and history of Manhattan and Brooklyn’s highly desirable historic townhouse neighborhoods, and the everyday lives of the nineteenth-century New Yorkers who lived in these townhouses and neighborhoods. The new and expanded Rizzoli edition has 110 new color pages and the author’s 14 favorite “Best of the Brownstones” Walking Tours.