10 listings 6sqft readers loved in 2025

In 2025, 6sqft published nearly 170 stories on “distinctive homes,” special New York City properties with interiors that inspired us and prices that made our jaws drop. Interestingly, five of our 10 most-read stories this year featured homes outside of the city, with a $975,000 mid-century modern home designed by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright topping the list. Readers also enjoyed renovated Brooklyn brownstones with big price tags, penthouses with outdoor pools, and Jackie Gleason’s UFO house in Westchester. Ahead, take a look at 6sqft’s most popular stories on homes that hit the market this year.

1. $975K Rockland County home was built in 1949 by a Frank Lloyd Wright protégé

This mid-century modern home on a wooded acre at 100 Old Pascack Road in Rockland County, New York, was designed by Edgar Tafel, a student of noted architect Frank Lloyd Wright. As such, Tafel contributed to Wright’s Fallingwater project and other important commissions, as well as 80 custom houses on his own. Asking $975,000, the upstate home was the result of a collaboration between the architect and its original owners; it was updated for the 21st century by its current owners.

2. Asbury Park penthouse hits the market for record $9M

Less than a month after a penthouse in Asbury Park sold for $7.6 million, becoming the priciest condo ever sold in New Jersey, a newly listed apartment in the Jersey Shore city is already trying to break the record. Asking $8,999,999, the penthouse at the beachfront Asbury Ocean Club is a combination of two units, with six bedrooms and 2,600 square feet of rooftop space overlooking the ocean and boardwalk.

3. Asking $2.2M, an upstate farmhouse on 40 acres has a babbling brook and a private lake

Built by the Livingston family in 1859, this country estate, known as Hawkskill, sits on 40 wooded acres in Livingston, New York. Down a winding country road and a long private driveway, the Hudson Valley farmhouse stands on land granted to Robert Livingston, for whom the town was named, in 1684 by the English Crown. Asking $2,195,000, the farmhouse incorporates and expands on the original version, offering four bedrooms and three baths.

4. Within this $10M Brooklyn Heights townhouse is a masterpiece of modern architectural design

Along historic Willow Place in Brooklyn Heights, the pretty carriage house at number 17 fits in perfectly; you’d never know that only the facade and sidewalls remain of the early-19th-century former stable. Architect Robert Kahn reconstructed the 4,600-square-foot building from the inside out in 2012, creating a modernist home for the ages, with three private garden spaces–including a stunning top-floor atrium courtyard–and a garage.

5. $22M Cobble Hill brownstone is five floors of architectural perfection, from the wine cellar to the rooftop deck

Built in the 1850s, the five-floor brownstone at 205 Clinton Street fits right in with its stately neighbors on an elegant, historic Cobble Hill block–but the home’s interiors are in a league of their own. Reflecting a two-year renovation helmed by award-winning architect Mike Ingui, the 25-foot-wide townhouse has been completely rebuilt within its carefully-preserved frame, from the basement wine cellar and gym to four levels of outdoor space topped by a rooftop clubhouse and deck. An elevator takes you to all levels with hand-carved stairs and mezzanines in between. There’s even full-service concierge parking. As the pricy neighborhood’s biggest-ticket listing, if the townhouse sells for its stratospheric $22 million ask, it would be the third-highest sale in Brooklyn.

6. Restored mid-century modern home in Newburgh designed by Philip Johnson asks $2.9M

A rare mid-century modern home designed by celebrated architect Philip Johnson is for sale. Designed in 1949, the Hudson River-facing home in Newburgh, New York, dubbed the Wolfhouse, resembles one of Johnson’s most well-known works, The Glass House in Connecticut, with the architect’s signature open floor plan and floor-to-ceiling windows. After a four-year restoration returned the home to its original condition, the Wolfhouse is on the market for $2,900,000.

7. This $75M Chelsea penthouse includes the city’s largest private outdoor pool

When we behold corporate executive/real estate investor David Weinreb’s west side trophy penthouse at 551 West 21st Street, a few questions may arise: Why does someone need three elevators? Do we want to walk through the wine closet to get to the living room? Is the West Side Highway a $75 million streetscape? And could we perhaps have done better than artificial turf for the 4,000-square-foot rooftop terrace? That said, if you’re listing your penthouse for $75 million, in addition to city and river views for days, you’d really better have the largest private outdoor pool in New York City, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten had better have designed your kitchen. This box seat in the stadium of Manhattan living covers those must-haves and many more.

8. Jackie Gleason’s UFO house in Westchester lands on the market for $5.5M

“Honeymooners” star and comedy icon Jackie Gleason’s unique UFO house in Westchester is back on the market. The sitcom legend had an infatuation with all things outer space and designed the Cortlandt Manor home to resemble a flying saucer. Situated on nearly nine acres about an hour north of New York City, the custom-built property, now asking $5,500,000, consists of three buildings: the main “mothership” home, a spaceship-like cottage, and a 1930s stone colonial.

9. Babe Ruth’s Upper West Side apartment asks $1.6M

Baseball is back, and so is Babe Ruth’s New York City apartment. The New York Yankees legend called this apartment at 345 West 88th Street on the Upper West Side home for more than 10 years near the end of his historic career. In 2015, the apartment was listed for $1,595,000. A decade later, the co-op returns to the market at the same price.

10. Behind a stately Village brownstone facade, a massive six-story mansion asks $35M

From a basement gym to a fully landscaped roof terrace–and the elevator that shuttles between them–the six-floor townhouse at 34 West 12th Street has all the trimmings of a contemporary suburban mansion. From the outside, the 1860s home maintains the genteel tone of the neighborhood, its perfectly preserved brownstone facade blending with neighbors on a tree-lined Greenwich Village block. Though a no-expenses-spared three-year renovation has endowed the home’s interiors with over 7,000 square feet of luxury finishes and 2,000 square feet of private gardens and terraces, its $35,000,000 ask represents a tall order.

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