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Legacy Building: Paying to Write Your Name in Stone Doesn’t Always Ensure...
The New York City Public Library’s main branch bears the names of numerous donors. As the baby boomers who became entrepreneurs, corporate raiders and captains of industry start to sense their...
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Untz Untz Untz! EDM Mogul Bob Sillerman Finds a Buyer for His $28 M. Townhouse
Robert Sillerman, right, with his wife, Laura Baudo Sillerman. (Patrick McMullan) Before 157 West 57th Street became One57, that glassy billionaire’s priapism which has come to stand for a whole...
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Just Developed: French Photographer Drops Flatiron Loft for $5.45 M.
Michel Tcherevkoff, right, with Brandon Remler, also a photographer. (Patrick McMullan) Paris native and whimsical commercial photographer Michel Tcherevkoff had an epiphany years ago when as a law...
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Nazdaróvye! Tomb-like Manhattan Beach Mansion Sells for $7.75 M.
2 Dover Street. (Kate Leonova) It is difficult these days to buy property in Manhattan for $704 per square foot, more difficult still to find a townhouse that can be had at that rate, much less a...
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After Trial by Fire, BK Heights Townhouse Sells for $6.25 M.
The townhouse at 67 Cranberry Street, in Brooklyn Heights. Allison and Thomas Franco took a few knocks after buying the townhouse at 67 Cranberry Street in Brooklyn Heights for $2.8 million in 2007....
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Eat, Shop, Skate, Smile: On the Mallification of Bryant Park
Holiday shopping at Bryant Park. (Wiki) Some years ago, Dan Biederman, the the co-founder and current president of the Bryant Park Corporation, the nonprofit that oversees that park’s management, came...
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Parents Just Don’t Understand Brooklyn: When Families Shop BK, Generations Clash
Not even Brooklyn Heights is a hit with some parents‚ 1 Brooklyn Bridge Park (Nicholas Perrone/New York Observer.) On a recent evening at Docklands, a self-described Nouveau American Bistro in Crown...
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On the Market: Barry Diller’s $170M Floating Park on the Hudson
(Heatherwick Studio) This is not generally the time of year that New Yorkers turn their minds to parks. But IAC chairman Barry Diller and the Hudson River Park Trust have something in mind that begs us...
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Another Day, Another Walker Tower Contract: $47.5 M. Penthouse Finds a Buyer
Bath time has never been so fancy. Even by the standards of New York Times lifestyle sections, last week’s Home & Garden feature on the increasing prevalence in luxury real estate of glassy...
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The Brownstone Architect Trades Townhouse-Carriage House Combo for $3.08 M.
99 Butler Street. Architect Michael Ingui, of firm Baxt Ingui, has made his name (and then some) largely on the luxurious townhouse renovations that have proliferated throughout brownstone Brooklyn in...
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Turning Down the Volume: Rhino Record Exec Picks Up Sedate UWS Co-op for...
200 West 79th Street. Since the piratical ravages of Napster, folks in the traditional recording industry have often felt themselves embattled. Sure, they’ve got iTunes and Spotify now, which are nifty...
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Almost 740 Park: A Look at the Penthouse Across the Way
The unfinished penthouse awaits the wishes of its eventual buyer. Since its 1940 construction on the corner of East 71st Street, 737 Park Avenue has stood roughly eye-to-eye, if not quite toe-to-toe,...
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Decisions on 421-a Renewal Are Far Off, State Assembly Housing Chair Tells...
Keith Wright, right, with Raymond Rodriguez and Charles Rangel at an event in October (Photo: Will Bredderman). This morning several dozen real estate developers, brokers, lawyers and financial...
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I Know Art and I Know What I Like: Collectors Drop Soho Loft for $6.3 M.
Cozy And loft-like. The “cavernous” spaces that make up the 6,000 square-foot Unit #2 at 69 Wooster Street are set off by “serious art walls,” according to the listing for the co-op held by Douglas...
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The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez: Holmes Buff Drops $13.4 M. on Park...
Paola and Michael Schulhof. (Patrick McMullan) When Michael and Paola Schulhof listed their duplex co-op at 770 Park Avenue last year—originally for $23.8 million—Mr. Schulhof explained the couple’s...
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The Dragon’s Den: Flashy Canadian Financier Takes Wing from Tribeca Pad for...
High and mighty. It’s easy to forget that before “Wall Street” became a metonym for all things investment banking-related, in the United States and beyond, it was merely a narrow east-west thoroughfare...
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Why Are Brooklyn Neighborhoods Getting So Hard To Tell Apart?
(flickr, Hipster Dust) On a recent morning, a friend and I ate breakfast at a bakery on 5th Avenue in Brooklyn, in a gentrifying borderland that shrewd and/or optimistic real estate agents have taken...
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West Side Swap: One57-dwelling Financier Drops Old Place for $4.3M
Hall of mirrors. Eyebrows were raised rather emphatically back in October when One57 saw its first property flip. The initial buyer of a three bedroom on the 58th floor, one Investor Sso Enterprises,...
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The Picture Doctor: Artsy Photog Sells Soho Co-op for $9.5 M.
Who can say what lies beneath? Very often, we do not think of art and science as complementary pursuits. That a doctor, for example, might also have considerable creative talent seems...
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Sales Launch for River and Warren, Bringing ‘Affordable Luxury’ to Battery...
A rendering of River and Warren, shimmering, in Battery Park City. The Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group opened sales today at River and Warren, a development at 212 Warren Street in Battery Park City...
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