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Prices Fall on Still-Pricey High-End Co-ops; Everything Else Gets More Expensive
Getting too old for this. (Lois Johnson) Contact sports are best suited to youth. As athletes age, the battery of head-to-head competition, the elevated heart rates of high-pressure moments and the...
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Put a Bird on It! BK Boutique Seeker Drops Park Slope Condo for $1.75 M.
Ted Lazarus (PLI Institute) Brooklyn, as we all know, is not merely a place, but an idea, an image, a brand. The borough's most attractive and—depending on who you talk to—annoying qualities and...
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Of Compounds and Condos: Belgian Artist Marc Lambrechts Unloads Fort Greene...
The view from above When the Belgian artist Marc Lambrechts bought the compound at 164 South Oxford Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, in 2000, he had no notion that it would prove such a savvy...
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The Doctor is Out: 740 Park’s Only Available Commercial Unit is on Offer for...
Gilded without. Why exactly the ground-floor Unit #C at 740 Park Avenue came to break off from the duplex just above it to become first a stand-alone two-bedroom apartment, and then a doctor's office,...
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And Then There Was One: Single Unit Remains at 135 East 79th, as Financier...
Beautifully...rendered Some months back, James Lansill, a senior managing director at the Corcoran Sunshine group told us that a good number of buyers at the Brodsky Organization's luxe, ultra-popular...
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Park Slope Community Board Approves Methodist Hospital Expansion
A rendering of the proposed facility Daniel Kummer, chairperson of Brooklyn's Community Board 6, appeared weary at last night's meeting before debate even began on a motion concerning zoning variances...
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Austerity Measures: Wife of Former Lazard Captain Shifts from Greenwich Manse...
737 Park Avenue With her 19,000 square-foot mansion in Greenwich sold, it should come as no surprise that Cynthia Biondi—the wife of Lazard chieftain Michael Biondi, who died in 2007 at the age of...
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Double Header! Buyers Enter Contract on Two Units at 56 Leonard for $28.75 M.
Fantasy views There remains a single full-floor penthouse available at Herzog and de Meuron's much-discussed Tribeca tower 56 Leonard Street—a 5,489 square-foot spread on the 58th floor, currently...
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To Mr. Sarkozy’s House We Go: Cognac Heiress and Artiste Nab East Side Row...
Aaron Young and Laure Heriard Dubreuil (Patrick McMullan) Much was made in some quarters last year over the age difference between Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy—the middle-aged half-brother of...
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Roll on Columbia! 255 Columbia Street Condos Hit 80 Percent Sales Mark
A rendering of 255 Columbia Street In Manhattan, one-bedroom apartments are becoming ever-more difficult to buy, as the New York Times reported recently: "As the recession roiled the market,...
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The Shit Show with Jon Stuart
Jonathan Stuart (Viper Records) When Jonathan Stuart says that complaining is his profession, he is not quite being earnest. But he is also not entirely wrong. It is, for him, at least a very demanding...
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Block Party! Financier Strolls Down Park Avenue, Picks Up Another Co-op for...
Howard Gellis (University of Pennsylvania) Kim and Debbie Fennebresque were understandably put out last year when Brett Wyard, a former Carlyle executive, backed out of a $11.5 million contract to buy...
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All He Wants is More: Casino Billionaire Phil Ruffin Lists Park Avenue Condo...
Phil Ruffin, with wife Ukrainian model Aleksandra Nikolayenko In the tradition of the nation's most successful capitalists, the hotel and casino executive Phil Ruffin has a knack for extracting as many...
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Crash! UES BOND Office Victimized by Wayward Driver
Ouch. (BOND) Agents at the BOND real estate brokerage, which bills itself as New York's largest independently-owned shop, were likely a bit miffed about having to work on Martin Luther King Day. (Then...
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The Number 25: Hollywood Impresario Trades Former Esquire Editor Fifth Avenue...
Lee and Linda Eisenberg (Patrick McMullan) Filmmaker Joel Schumacher contributed in no small way to the Hollywood iconography of the 1980s and 90s, directing Brat Pack staples St. Elmo's Fire and The...
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Painter Ali Banisadr Buys Bed-Stuy Artist’s Studio, Post Conversion to a...
Ali Banisadr A native of Tehran, the artist Ali Banisadr immigrated to New York as a child, a refugee of the war between Iran and Iraq. It was his experience as a victim that in large part informs his...
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Cabin Fever: Country Luxe, Now For Brooklyn-Based Weekenders
A rendering of Hudson Woods. (Lang Architecture) In the nomenclature of American popular culture, the subdivision often acts as a kind of emblem of soullessness—a synecdoche for the vapid, homogenous...
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So So Def: Record Exec Tom Moscowitz Drops $4.56 M. on West Village Condo
Check out those bones. Over the years, record executive Tom Moscowitz has held a number of bold-faced titles at some of the music industry's largest companies. He has been head of Russell Simmons' Rush...
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Expensive Things Come In Small Packages: FiDi Studio Sells for $790 K.,...
Above We read a lot in real estate news about records and benchmarks set by Manhattan's most spacious and expensive properties, a trend for which we are willing to take partial credit—or blame. And...
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Delayed Gratification: Cobble Hill Townhouse Enters Contract Near $4.47 M. Ask
A rendering of the finished Strong Place houses A year ago, when Donald Brennan first brought to market the three townhouses he planned to construct on Strong Place in Cobble Hill, he ran into...
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