More Goldilocks Blocks; here are 15 one-block streets in NYC. [Untapped Cities] Great ground-floor apartments that aren’t dark and grim—like this one located in a former seminary. [Curbed] The case for the pied-a-terre tax: All apartments take advantage of major city services—be it police, fire, courts, or sanitation. It’s these city services that make New York City […]
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David Wolkoff, the developer of the residential building replacing 5Pointz, has sold his 791 Park Avenue home for $10M. [NYO] BIG’s 57th Street pyramid gets its topper. [Curbed] A Bowery development site sold for $45M. [TRD] The Port Authority has lost the $175M Hudson Yards tower deal. [Crain’s] Landmarked Dudley Memorial townhouse at 118 Amity Street in Cobble […]
Extell’s Gary Barnett predicts a small dip in the luxury market. [Crain’s] What’s the value of a Central Park view? [Curbed] A peek inside One57’s model home. [TRD] Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams wants to revive an affordable housing development on a 30-acre piece of land known as the Broadway Triangle. [Brownstoner] The New York City […]
In the spirit of Halloween, yesterday we took a look at whether or not living near a cemetery affects real estate prices in New York. Apparently, on average, homes close to cemeteries were slightly smaller, but sold for more due to a higher cost per square foot. And though this is what the research suggests, […]
3 World Trade Center is back on track and is slated to open in 2018. Larry Silverstein sold $1.6B in unrated debt to fund the tower. [NYP] Jackson Pollock’s former Greenwich Village apartment has sold for $1.46M. The home hit the market just over a month ago for $1.25M. [NYDN] A handy guide on how to […]
One57 and the view from the $90 million penthouse
After half a century of petitioning, the Tifereth Israel Town & Village Synagogue at 334 East 14th Street was made a landmark today by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. [GVSHP] Citi Bike has been saved—and will double in size by 2017 to 12,000 bicycles and 700 docks. Those looking to ride should also expect a […]
As rents rise, New Yorkers 40 and older are hunting for roommates. [WSJ] The long-awaited Fulton transit hub will open to the public on November 10th. [DNA Info] Activists protest the creation of a new neighborhood in South Bronx. [Curbed] Four World Trade Center is officially open. [TRD] The New York Public Library will expand […]
Remember those jitters you’d get leading up to college move-in day? We wonder if Condé Nast is feeling that way in anticipation of its big move into One World Trade Center, now set for November 3rd. The tower’s anchor tenant will not make a big to-do of its move, but the Port Authority of New York and […]
A new type of post-recession real estate fraud is wreaking havoc on Brooklyn neighborhoods like Canarsie, East New York, and Cypress Hills. [Brooklyn Brief] Landmarked Brooklyn Lyceum sells at auction for $7.6 million. [Brownstoner] Appraiser Jonathan Miller looks at what would happen if we eliminated rent regulation. [Bloomberg] Kiefer Sutherland’s former Steven Gambrel-designed Greenwich Village […]
Someone is building a luxury residential building next to the AirTrain station. The Crossing, as it’s called, will host 580 units with roof terraces and a 24-hour doorman among other amenities. [DNA Info] “No Picket Fence”. New Yorkers in their 20s and 30s are increasingly looking for appealing rentals as opposed to buying, and developers are […]
Between hyper-developed hotspots, main drags in up-and-comers, and those genuinely avoidable areas, there can often be found a city’s “just-right” zones. They aren’t commonly known, but these micro-neighborhoods often hide within them real estate gems coupled with perfectly offbeat vibes. Continuing our Goldilocks Blocks series, this week we look at Hope Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Melissa Rivers will inherit mom Joan Rivers’ penthouse apartment at 1 East 62nd Street. [NYP] Vice’s expansion has taken another victim: Williamsburg’s beloved music venue Glasslands. [Gawker] A plan to build luxury condos on a toxin-laden Greenpoint site of a former plastics factory could kick up pollutants and poison kids attending a planned school nearby. [Brooklyn Paper] […]
Extell’s Gary Barnet shares how he scored the F.M. Ring’s prized Midtown South portfolio. Highlights include how he outmaneuvered the hostile sellers and competing offers. [TRD] The price tag on this Richard Meier penthouse has been upped to $40M from $35M. [Curbed] Sarah Jessica Parker has riled the owners of Carrie Bradshaw’s West Village townhouse […]
In addition to holding the record for highest purchase of a sports team in New York (he bought the Jets in 2000 for a whopping $635 million), Johnson & Johnson heir Woody Johnson now also holds the title for most expensive co-op ever sold in the city. His 11th/12th floor duplex at 834 Fifth Avenue has been […]
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