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City unveils design of new Hudson Square public plaza

Photo of existing Hudson-Houston Plaza by Tdorante10 on WikiCommons

February 4, 2025

City unveils design of new Hudson Square public plaza

By Aaron Ginsburg

New York City is moving forward with plans to turn part of a parking lot in Hudson Square into a new public plaza. The city's Parks Department, DEP, and the Hudson Square Business Improvement District this week unveiled the design for Hudson-Houston Plaza, a new 0.26-acre open space at the intersection of Hudson and Houston Streets that will provide a much-needed public area for the neighborhood while allowing for continued DEP operations below ground. The northern half of the city-owned site will become an affordable housing development, known as 388 Hudson Street.
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Architecture And Design

NYC’s best spas and saunas to beat the cold

Winter pool house at The Rockaway Hotel. Photo credit: Kelsey Campbell

February 4, 2025

NYC’s best spas and saunas to beat the cold

By Aaron Ginsburg

With winter in full swing in New York City, it can feel disheartening to think about how many weeks of bitter cold lie ahead before the first signs of spring appear. Fortunately, plenty of tranquil escapes across the city can offer the warmth and relaxation needed to make it through the season. Whether you’re looking to shake off the winter blues or treat yourself to some much-needed self-care, these NYC day spas offer the perfect retreat to warm your body and lift your spirits during the colder months.
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The highest private pool in NYC unveiled at Rafael Viñoly’s 88-story FiDi condo

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January 31, 2025

The highest private pool in NYC unveiled at Rafael Viñoly’s 88-story FiDi condo

By Aaron Ginsburg

Care for a sky-high swim? The highest private pool in New York City is now complete at a new 88-story condo tower in the Financial District. The Greenwich by Rafael Viñoly this week unveiled "The 88," a stunning amenities suite occupying the building's 86th, 87th, and 88th floors, considered the highest condo perk package in the city. Designed by acclaimed firm MAWD, the exclusive space offers residents a private members club experience, featuring wellness, entertainment, and fitness areas, including a 50-foot indoor lap pool, all complemented by luxurious furnishings from Molteni&C, Poltrona Frau, Boffi DePadova, and Poliform.
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New York officials challenge Trump’s federal funding freeze

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January 29, 2025

New York officials challenge Trump’s federal funding freeze

By Aaron Ginsburg

New York officials are scrambling to respond to President Donald Trump’s federal funding freeze, a move that threatened essential services for millions of New Yorkers. The freeze, which was announced in a memo on Monday, would strip the city of billions in federal grants and loans, potentially putting funding for housing assistance, school lunch programs, and other vital resources at risk. Attorney General Letitia James joined attorneys general from 22 states and the District of Columbia in suing the Trump administration to stop the directive. A federal judge temporarily blocked the order on Tuesday before it would have taken effect. Update 1/29/25: On Wednesday, the Trump Administration rescinded the memo "to end any confusion on federal policy created by the court ruling and the dishonest media coverage."
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Policy

For $2.5M, turn-key townhouse living in a historic Crown Heights home

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January 29, 2025

For $2.5M, turn-key townhouse living in a historic Crown Heights home

By Michelle Cohen

In the Weeksville section of Crown Heights at 313 Troy Avenue, this 1901 townhouse is easily recognizable as a historic gem from the first glance at its barrel-front facade. Within the home's graceful architecture, a dramatic renovation has introduced modern luxury and eye-pleasing design. The two-family home, asking $2,500,000, includes a renovated garden-level flat with a duplex above.
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Distinctive Homes

First look at Chinatown’s new 16-story jail

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January 28, 2025

First look at Chinatown’s new 16-story jail

By Aaron Ginsburg

With office buildings in New York City still feeling the effects of the pandemic, the sight of a new, imposing office tower going up in Chinatown may leave you scratching your head. However, this generic-looking glass tower is a new jail. As first spotted by NY1, Los Angeles-based architectural firm Tutor Perini and O&G Industries released a video showing the preliminary design of the new Manhattan Detention Center, a 16-story facility set to rise at 124-125 White Street as part of the city's plan to replace the Rikers Island complex with four borough-based jails.
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Architecture And Design

Hoboken’s PATH station to close for 25 days

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January 23, 2025

Hoboken’s PATH station to close for 25 days

By Aaron Ginsburg

Hoboken residents will have to find a different way to New York City beginning next week as the New Jersey city's PATH station closes for nearly a month. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s $54 million makeover of Hoboken's PATH station begins on January 30 at 11:59 p.m. and ends on February 25 at 5 a.m. The work includes comprehensive repairs to tracks, infrastructure, and stations. During this closure, the Port Authority will provide a variety of travel alternatives, including free shuttle buses, as well as supplemental PATH, light rail, and NJ Transit bus services connecting Hoboken and Manhattan.
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Macaulay Culkin sells full-floor Noho loft for $7.75M

Streetview of 704 Broadway, Map data © 2024 Google

January 23, 2025

Macaulay Culkin sells full-floor Noho loft for $7.75M

By Aaron Ginsburg

A sprawling Noho loft purchased by "Home Alone" star Macaulay Culkin as a teenager has sold for $7.75 million, city records show. As first reported by the New York Post, the full-floor loft at 704 Broadway was purchased by the former child star in 1999 for $1.75 million—about $3.36 million today when adjusted for inflation. The home features three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a spacious L-shaped living area spanning the kitchen, dining, and living rooms.
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244 apartments available at luxury Hunter’s Point rental, from $2,490/month

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January 23, 2025

244 apartments available at luxury Hunter’s Point rental, from $2,490/month

By Aaron Ginsburg

A housing lottery launched this week for 244 middle-income apartments at a new luxury waterfront rental in Long Island City. Located at 2-21 Malt Drive in Hunter's Point South, the 38-story building is part of the three-tower Malt Drive development, which will add more than 1,000 new homes to the neighborhood upon completion. New Yorkers earning 130 percent of the area median income can apply for the units, priced from $2,490/month for studios to $3,590/month for two bedrooms.
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Affordable Housing

A renovation by MADE adds colorful style to a $13M Cobble Hill townhouse

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January 22, 2025

A renovation by MADE adds colorful style to a $13M Cobble Hill townhouse

By Michelle Cohen

At 25 feet wide with five stories and a separate garden flat, the 1884 late-Italianate-style townhouse at 234 Clinton Street would be a dream home for just about anyone. But the brick-fronted Brooklyn residence achieves icon status with a stem-to-stern renovation by celebrated architecture firm MADE, which added a vibrant color palette to design-showcase interiors while preserving the home's history. Asking $12,995,000, details like pale mint green stairs, a modern kitchen clad in emerald tiles, and a top-floor studio make this one of the neighborhood's most exciting offerings.
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Distinctive Homes

How to celebrate Lunar New Year in NYC

Better Chinatown USA’s 26th Lunar New Year Parade in 2024. Photo courtesy of Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office on Flickr

January 21, 2025

How to celebrate Lunar New Year in NYC

By Aaron Ginsburg

Marking the arrival of spring and fresh starts, the Lunar New Year festival runs for two weeks from January 29 to February 16. 2025 marks the Year of the Snake, the sixth animal in the 12-year Chinese zodiac cycle and representing wisdom and transformation, bringing with it, opportunities for personal growth. With multiple Chinatowns and Asian communities across New York City, there are many ways to celebrate the new year, from fireworks and a parade to lion dances and lantern-making.
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Events & Things To Do

30 things to help you hibernate this winter

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January 17, 2025

30 things to help you hibernate this winter

By Terri Williams

True homebodies (I’m one of them) are perfectly happy to spend most of their time at home. They may show up for important events just to keep things from getting weird, but they’re most comfortable relaxing or working around their house or apartment. So when thinking of the types of gifts to buy, you can’t go wrong with something that makes being at home more stylish, cozy, comfortable, fun, or useful.
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Port Authority secures $1.9B federal loan for bus terminal replacement before Trump takes office

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January 16, 2025

Port Authority secures $1.9B federal loan for bus terminal replacement before Trump takes office

By Aaron Ginsburg

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey secured a major loan from the federal government for its Midtown bus terminal replacement project this week, just days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The agency will receive $1.9 billion from the U.S. Department of Transportation to fund the first phase of the $10 billion project. The Port Authority has scrambled to get the necessary federal approvals before Trump's inauguration, fearing he would halt the project.
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The oldest house in the West Village is on the market for $12M

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January 15, 2025

The oldest house in the West Village is on the market for $12M

By Michelle Cohen

Known as the Isaacs-Hendricks House, this four-story home at 77 Bedford Street, built in 1799, is the oldest house in the West Village–and one of the oldest remaining buildings in Manhattan. Asking $12 million, the single-family townhouse, standing among some of the city's loveliest historic properties, has retained some of its original architecture and added modern conveniences and details that pay homage to the era of its construction.
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Distinctive Homes

Financial District condo One Park Row launches sales, from $850K

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January 15, 2025

Financial District condo One Park Row launches sales, from $850K

By Aaron Ginsburg

Sales launched this week at a new luxury residential development at the intersection of Tribeca and the Financial District. Developed by Circle F Capital and designed by Fogarty Finger, One Park Row is a 23-story mixed-use building offering 58 condos ranging from studios to three-bedroom apartments, with stunning views and a prime location across from City Hall Park and only blocks from the World Trade Center. Pricing starts at $850,000 for a studio.
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New Developments

City approves gate for Village townhouse to keep ‘Sex and the City’ fans out

66 Perry Street in 2022. Photo by Jim.henderson on Wikimedia

January 14, 2025

City approves gate for Village townhouse to keep ‘Sex and the City’ fans out

By Devin Gannon

The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) on Tuesday approved an application to install a gate at the foot of a townhouse in the Greenwich Village Historic District. Not just any home, the property, located at 66 Perry Street, appeared as Carrie Bradshaw's apartment on the HBO show "Sex and the City." Despite being off the air for 20 years, the show's popularity continues today, leading tourists and TikTokers to visit the front stoop at all hours and film themselves on the famous steps. When a chain and a "no trespassing" sign at the base of the stoop failed to stop the mayhem, the brownstone's owner, Barbara Lorber, asked the LPC to approve a new gate for the landmarked property and commissioners agreed.
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‘QueensLink’ receives $400K grant to study reactivation of abandoned railway

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January 10, 2025

‘QueensLink’ receives $400K grant to study reactivation of abandoned railway

By Aaron Ginsburg

A plan to reactivate a deserted railway as the first north-to-south subway line in Queens just got a financial boost from the federal government. The nonprofit group behind QueensLink, a proposal extending the M train from Rego Park to the Rockaways along the abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch with accompanying bike paths and trails, received a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) as part of the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program. The funds would pay for a study measuring the impacts of the project, which the group hopes could bring more support for QueensLink; it is currently competing against a separate project to build a linear park on the same railway.
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For $6.9M, this Scarsdale mansion is a true 21st-century estate

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January 9, 2025

For $6.9M, this Scarsdale mansion is a true 21st-century estate

By Michelle Cohen

A Westchester County estate may signify a certain level of achievement, but it can also signal a retreat from the rhythm of modern life. With a pool, gym, wine room, and endless entertaining and play space, this contemporary mansion is more luxury resort than country castle–modern life included. Asking $6,875,000, the Scarsdale property is sufficiently estate-like on the outside. Inside, 21st-century best-ofs like smart-home technology and a geothermal heating and cooling system power nearly 10,000 square feet of living space with six bedrooms.
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Distinctive Homes

Highest condo on the Brooklyn waterfront asks $7M

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January 8, 2025

Highest condo on the Brooklyn waterfront asks $7M

By Aaron Ginsburg

The highest condo on the Brooklyn waterfront just hit the market for $7 million. Atop One Domino Square in Williamsburg, the penthouse takes up half of the floor and has three bedrooms and three and a half baths. Designed by the acclaimed Irish brand Orior, the interiors echo the luxurious yet simplistic design of the Selldorf Architects-designed residential skyscraper and flaunt the magnificent views that stretch beyond the Manhattan and Brooklyn skylines.
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Congestion pricing is in full effect: Here’s what to know

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January 6, 2025

Congestion pricing is in full effect: Here’s what to know

By Aaron Ginsburg

After years of preparation and a stunning last-minute reversal by Gov. Kathy Hochul, congestion pricing officially went live on Sunday. The controversial program now charges drivers a base fee of $9 when entering Manhattan below 60th Street—40 percent cheaper than the original $15 toll that was initially planned before the governor abruptly paused the program in June, just weeks before its scheduled start. Here’s everything you need to know about congestion pricing, from what to expect at the tolls to the capital improvements your money will fund.
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Plans filed to transform Times Square office building into 942 apartments

Exterior of 5 Times Square. Image via WikiCommons

January 2, 2025

Plans filed to transform Times Square office building into 942 apartments

By Aaron Ginsburg

A coalition of prominent New York City real estate figures has filed plans to transform a 38-story office building in Times Square into more than 900 new homes. As reported by The Real Deal, Apollo Global Management, in partnership with RXR and SL Green, aims to convert 5 Times Square into a mixed-use building with 942 apartments. This office-to-residential conversion would be one of the largest in the city to date, and the first in the heart of Times Square.
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Real Estate Trends

Mulchfest is here: How to recycle your Christmas tree in NYC

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January 2, 2025

Mulchfest is here: How to recycle your Christmas tree in NYC

By Aaron Ginsburg

The holidays are officially over, and it's time to face the facts: that giant Christmas tree in your living room has got to go. Thankfully, the city's Parks and Sanitation Departments make it easy with Mulchfest, a sustainable way to recycle your tree. Through January 12, New Yorkers can drop off their trees at 75 sites across the five boroughs to be composted. Bring your tree to one of 35 chipping sites on the weekend of January 11 and take home a "tree-mento"—a bag of mulch for your backyard or a street tree’s winter bed.
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City-owned garage on Staten Island’s North Shore to become 232 affordable homes

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December 31, 2024

City-owned garage on Staten Island’s North Shore to become 232 affordable homes

By Aaron Ginsburg

A city-owned sanitation garage on Staten Island's North Shore will be transformed into 232 affordable homes. The city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) on Monday revealed the development team and plans for Hillside Grove, which will convert an unsightly garage at 539 Jersey City into a mixed-use affordable housing complex with a grocery store, amenities, and open space.
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Affordable Housing

6sqft’s top ‘distinctive homes’ of 2024

December 30, 2024

6sqft’s top ‘distinctive homes’ of 2024

By Aaron Ginsburg

In 2024, 6sqft continued to bring readers exclusive glimpses of New York City's most 'distinctive homes.' From opulent mansions (a palatial, eight-level Beaux Arts townhouse on the Upper East Side for $65 million) to Park Slope's priciest listing (a custom-engineered five-story townhouse asking $18 million), 6sqft showcased some of the most remarkable architectural gems across the five boroughs. Ahead, discover the most popular features of distinct NYC residences that graced the market this year.
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Distinctive Homes

143 apartments available next to Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Crown Heights, from $914/month

Rendering courtesy of the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development

December 27, 2024

143 apartments available next to Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Crown Heights, from $914/month

By Aaron Ginsburg

A housing lottery has opened for 143 mixed-income apartments just a block from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Crown Heights. Located at 54 Crown Street, Loden is a 17-story building offering residents thoughtfully designed apartments in a prime location within the vibrant Brooklyn neighborhood, with Prospect Park, the BBG, and public transit just steps away. New Yorkers earning 40, 60, and 100 percent of the area median income can apply for the units, priced from $914/month studios to $3,067/month two bedrooms.
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Affordable Housing

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