• NBC News anchor Lester Holt lists classy Nomad apartment for $6.6M
• First look at Domino Sugar Factory’s 11-acre park and waterfront esplanade
• Mayor de Blasio christens New York’s first Citywide Ferry with a ride into Brooklyn Bridge Park
• First home designed by Philip Johnson seeks $1M and a preservation savior
• Affordable housing lottery for seniors opens at Essex Crossing, from $396/month
• Demi Moore finally sells San Remo penthouse for a much-reduced $45M

This Week’s Features

• Toolbox Tutorials: Learn to make a simple macramé plant hanger
• INTERVIEW: Co-founder of the Brooklyn Home Company, Bill Caleo
• My 900sqft: A podcasting pioneer fills her family’s West Village apartment with historic American relics
• Shop and nosh your way through 20 of NYC’s best flea and food markets
• Art Nerd New York’s top event picks for the week – 4/20-4/26
• The Urban Lens: Explore the whimsical photography of Todd Webb with former LIFE editor Bill Shapiro

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Images: Lester Holt’s apartment at 225 Fifth Avenue via TOWN (L); “Mr. Perkins Pierce Arrow” 1946 copyright the Todd Webb Archive (R)

• Hyperloop One plan would take travelers from NYC to D.C. in 20 minutes
• Why is New York City called the Big Apple?
• ‘Human Castell’ tower proposal turns the traditional skyscraper inside out
• ‘How I Met Your Mother’ actress Cobie Smulders lists Battery Park City condo for $4M
• There’s plenty of charm packed into this 330-square-foot Tudor City pad, asking $364K

This Week’s Features

• Past Prisons: Inside the new lives of 7 former NYC jails
• INTERVIEW: Paula Scher on designing the brands of New York’s most beloved institutions
• My 1400sqft: Inside creative couple Molly Young and Teddy Blanks’ perfectly outfitted Williamsburg loft
• Art Nerd New York’s top event picks for the week – 4/13-4/19
• The Urban Lens: Zooming in on New York’s captivating corner architecture

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Images: Molly Young and Teddy Blanks’ loft by James and Karla Murray exclusively for 6sqft (L); Human Castell Skyscraper (R)

• REVEALED: Inside the model residences of Zaha Hadid’s 520 West 28th Street
• First look at the iconic Hotel Chelsea’s glamorous interior renovation
• Massive high-rise complex with 900 apartments, retail, offices and schools coming to Downtown Brooklyn
• Sale of $79.5M Upper East Side mansion sets new record for Manhattan’s most expensive townhouse
• 11 New York-based firms bid to build Trump’s border wall
• Outrageous Bronx mansion built for Jesus’ second coming finally sells

 
This Week’s Features

• The 10 best neighborhoods for New York City artists
• Studio Visits: Go inside Square Roots’ futuristic shipping container farm in Bed-Stuy
• Art Nerd New York’s top event picks for the week – 4/6-4/12
• The Urban Lens: Sid Kaplan shares historic photos of the Third Avenue El coming down

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Images: 520 West 28th Street by Scott Francis for Jennifer Post (L); Square Roots by James and Karla Murray exclusively for 6sqft 

March’s 10 Most-Read Stories

• New rendering for the Sheepshead Bay condo that’s the tallest residential building in South Brooklyn
• The 10 best plants for apartment dwellers
• Exciting new details emerge for the TWA Terminal hotel
• Oiio’s ‘Big Bend’ proposal for Billionaires’ Row would be the world’s longest building
• The Urban Lens: Inside McSorley’s Old Ale House, NYC’s oldest bar
• My 150sqft: Architect-turned-actor Anthony Triolo shows us his custom-designed tiny apartment
• Lottery opens for historic brownstone-replacing apartments in Harlem, from $659/month
• How Aaron Burr gave the city a faulty system of wooden water mains
• Philip Johnson’s Rockefeller Guest House, a ‘secret’ modernist gem on Manhattan’s east side
• Live in a hip DUMBO warehouse conversion for $895/month, lottery opening at 181 Front Street

This Week’s Features

• 15 indoor air-purifying plants for your apartment or home
• From the Westside Cowboys to the Oreo cookie: 10 Secrets of Chelsea Market
• Zaha Hadid’s unknown, unbuilt and celebrated projects in New York City
• Art Nerd New York’s top event picks for the week – 3/30-4/5
• The Urban Lens: Explore the history of human communication through 100 Barclay’s ceiling murals

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Images: “Big Bend” via Oiio Studio (L); by Evan Joseph for 100 Barclay

• Swale floating park returns this spring with a new look
• Kushner Cos. vision for 666 Fifth Avenue has Zaha Hadid design and $12B ambitions
• Philip Johnson’s Rockefeller Guest House, a ‘secret’ modernist gem on Manhattan’s east side
• Artist who created Wall Street’s ‘Charging Bull’ angered by ‘Fearless Girl’ statue
• $5.5M ask for renovated Hamilton Heights mansion is a new Harlem record
• ‘Paris-on-the-Gowanus’ rental launches affordable housing lottery, units from $833/month

This Week’s Features

• Two Trees looks to local artists to help elevate everyday living
• My 150sqft: Architect-turned-actor Anthony Triolo shows us his custom-designed tiny apartment
• Remembering New York City’s days of deadly smog
• Art Nerd New York’s top event picks for the week – 3/23-3/29
• The Urban Lens: Behind the counter and into the caves at Murray’s Cheese

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Images: Anthony Triolo’s apartment by James and Karla Murray exclusively for 6sqft (L); 666 Fifth Avenue via KushnerC Companies/Zaha Hadid Architects (R)

• Rare East Coast Eichler home asking $490K shows off its unique modern design with new interior photos
• Marvelously mod prefab guest house was built in just two days time
• St. Patrick’s Cathedral’s new geothermal plant is up and running
• ‘Barefoot Contessa’ Ina Garten asks $2M for Parisian-style Upper East Side pied-a-terre
• Huge Whole Foods coming to Brookfield’s Manhattan West
• After 10 years on the market, Donald Trump’s trust looks to make $35M on lavish penthouse

This Week’s Features

• Modern-spotting: The lost Eichlers of Rockland County, New York
• Art Nerd New York’s Top Event Picks for the Week- 10/16-10/22
• The Urban Lens: Enter the vibrant world of New York City’s Sherpa community

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Images: 130 Grotke Road courtesy of Coldwell Banker (L); 71 East 77th Street courtesy of Stribling

• New rendering for the Sheepshead Bay condo that’s the tallest residential building in South Brooklyn
• Lottery opens for historic brownstone-replacing apartments in Harlem, from $659/month
• Hidden underground tunnel will take you from Rockefeller Center to Times Square
• Herzog & de Meuron will turn Gowanus’ graffiti-covered ‘Batcave’ into an art production factory
• This striking $3.9M duplex six is as classic Upper East Side as it gets
• Kristen Visbal’s ‘Fearless Girl’ statue defies Wall Street’s bull to promote women in business
• After $10M lawsuit, Sean Lennon removes tree that damaged Marisa Tomei’s parents’ house

This Week’s Features

• The best design museums in New York City
• ‘Valet parking condominium’ offers drivers white-glove service starting at $185,000
• Great Game Changers: How the Pan Am Building redefined Midtown architecture
• My 2,400sqft: Preservationist and arts champion Samuel Brooks shows off his Mott Haven rowhouse
• Exciting new details emerge for the TWA Terminal hotel
• Art Nerd New York’s top event picks for the week – 3/9-3/15
• The Urban Lens: Inside McSorley’s Old Ale House, NYC’s oldest bar

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Images: Avalon Brooklyn Bay (L); Samuel Brooks via Erin Kestenbaum exclusively for 6sqft

• Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen list uber-stylish Tribeca loft for $3M
• Jeanne Gang reveals sparkly new renderings of High Line-hugging Solar Carve Tower
• Astoria is NYC’s top ‘hood for millennials seeking roommates
• Oldest home in Brooklyn Heights is on the market for $6.65M
• Supreme branded Metrocards bring mayhem to NYC subway stations
• Richard Meier’s mixed-use Teachers Village development is revitalizing downtown Newark

This Week’s Features

• How to decorate an apartment with floor-to-ceiling windows, tips from a pro
• Inside New York’s little-known graphic design museum, The Herb Lubalin Center
• Art Nerd New York’s top event picks for the week – 2/23-3/1
• The Urban Lens: Will Ellis explores the relics and ruins of Staten Island’s remote edges

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• Hamptons home prices sag as luxury buyers head to hipper Hudson Valley
• Meg Ryan lists her impossibly chic Soho loft for $10.9 million
• 432 Park owner attempts to sell $20M apartment with iPhone photos
• 143 chances to live in Downtown Brooklyn from $897/month, lottery open at 33 Bond Street
• LOT-EK erects a stunning single-family mega-home from 21 shipping containers in Williamsburg
• Kirsten Dunst’s vintage-cool Soho penthouse returns for $5M

This Week’s Features

• Tips and storage ideas for couples living in small apartments
• 20 New Yorkers tell 6sqft what they love most about NYC
• Sauna-hot apartments: How to cope without stripping down
• Art Nerd New York’s top event picks for the week – 2/16-2/22
• The Urban Lens: Fall for New York City from a helicopter during ‘golden hour’

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Images: Via LOT-EK (L); via Douglas Elliman (R)

• Concert pianist Inon Barnatan looks to unload his Harlem loft for $2.25 million
• NYC’s top 10 wealthiest ZIP codes will surprise you
• VIDEO: How a man lives and works in a 78-square-foot Hell’s Kitchen ‘studio’
• Vince Clarke’s gorgeous Park Slope townhouse asks $6M after Roman and Williams haute-goth makeover
• A High Line-esque bridge and park are coming to Newark, New Jersey
• New Stuyvesant Town lottery opens for middle-income units from $2,805/month
• MKCA transforms 225-square-foot West Village pad into a super-multi-functional home

This Week’s Features

• What a teen wants: 7 NYC teenagers on their dream apartment building
• Excavating the city: A look at urban archaeology in New York
• The city’s struggling garment industry finds a new home in Sunset Park
• 10 alternative Valentine’s Day events for urbanists, historians, and art lovers
• Art Nerd New York’s top event picks for 2/9-2/15
• The Urban Lens: Sam Golanski gives Park Avenue doormen their moment in the spotlight
• From stationery store to the famous blue box: The 180-year history of Tiffany & Co.

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Images: Love in Times Square (L); Vince Clarke’s home at 178 Garfield Place by Richard Caplan courtesy of Core (R)