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One For the Price of Two: 18th-Floor Combo at 35XV Enters Contract for $16.95 M.
A rendering of 35XV Slated for occupancy in the second half of 2014, Alchemy Properties' 35XV building, at 35 West 15th Street, has neither attempted nor commanded the astronomical prices of the most...
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The Wages of Regret: How Do We Remember Painful Portions of History in the...
The African Burial Ground National Monument, in Lower Manhattan. In 1991, when construction crews digging at the corner of Broadway and Reade Street came upon a colonial-era cemetery known as "Negros...
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Social Justice Advocates Reap Karmic Rewards with $7.17 M. Acquisition of...
Tired of those same old Walker Tower yet? Just when we were starting to think that every Walker Tower unit might be claimed by a movie star, music mogul or finance titan cloaked in a bland-sounding...
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Phantom of the Opera: Anonymous Buyers Make Land Grab at the Century Condominium
Views near and far. A mysterious buyer, hiding—as mysterious buyers will do—behind the camouflage on an LLC, is scooping up property in the Century Condominium building, at 25 Central Park West, The...
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East River Partners Revealed as Developer for Fort Greene ‘Compound’
The compound at 164 South Oxford Street When we spoke earlier this month with Corcoran's Vicki Negron about the recent sale for $7.5 million of a kingly assemblage at 164 South Oxford Street in Fort...
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E.T. Phone Home? $8.3 M. Co-op at 830 Park Avenue Sells, Drew Barrymore Is...
Drew Barrymore and Will Kopelman (Patrick McMullan) In October, when a four-bedroom duplex in the tony 830 Park Avenue went into contract, real estate gossips were all atwitter, speculating as to...
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The Other Wilpon: Mets Scion Scoops Tribeca Loft for $4.04 M.
Clara Samuelsson and Scott Wilpon (Patrick McMullan) With the exception of that wee little Madoff affair—which cost his family a few hundred-million dollars—fate has been kind to Scott Wilpon. Nephew...
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Operation Penthouse: Medical Supply Giant Drops $23.4 M. on UES Duplex
Ronald G. Harrington (BioMotiv) For many owners of Manhattan trophy properties, the purchase of a dream apartment represents a kind of crowning achievement—a commemoration of stunning success personal...
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Penthouse at Gwathmey Siegel’s 400 Fifth Enters Contract for $12 M.
400 Fifth Avenue (Evan Joseph) One of the four unsold penthouses in the Gwathmey Siegel-designed 400 Fifth Avenue has entered contract, The Observer has learned. And according to Douglas Elliman's Toni...
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Governor Cuomo Announces $50 M. in Funding for Alternative Transportation...
Happy Trails. Applications for $50 million in federal funding, provided by the Federal Highway Administration via the New York State Department of Transportation, for an array of alternative...
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Minus One: Mollie Zweig Sells Co-op at 625 Park for $21.5 M.
625 Park Avenue The Wall Street titan Martin Zweig, who died early last year, has been in print of late more for the lavish properties that his financial wizardry earned than for the wizardry itself....
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Changing of the Guard? City Island Residents Consider a Park in Nearby...
Hart Island (David Trawin, Flickr) Provided that public transportation is operating normally, you can expect to spend between an hour and ten minutes, and one hour and thirty minutes traveling from...
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Whodi!?!?! Rentals at the Centurian Building are Open For Business
The Centurian Building Time was, if you weren't in need of scented body oil or beaded, polyester lingerie, cut-rate hair extensions or a three-year-old Blackberry, you might well have steered clear of...
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Is Manhattan for Everyone? The pied-à-terre and the ‘poor door’
(Illustration by Victor Juhasz) Seven years ago, when the Westside mega-development known as Hudson Yards was but a twinkle in the collective eye of real estate moguls and Bloomberg officiates,...
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Whisper Down the Lane: $14 M. Co-op at Reserved 1 Sutton Place South Enters...
Streaming light? Check. East River frontage? Double-check. Home to diplomats and financial titans of yesteryear, Hollywood types and captains of industry, 1 Sutton Place South, a Candela structure...
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House of Worth: Clinton Hill Townhouse Sells to Michelin-Starred Chef,...
Aliya LeeKong (Aliya LeeKong) In the 1980s and early 90s, when jazz greats Branford and Wynton Marsalis owned the townhouse at 374 Washington Street, no one dreamed that their then-gritty Clinton Hill...
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Going, Going, Gone! Former MLB President Trades UES Pad for $5.77 M.
At right, Andrew Vogel and Véronique Mazard (Patrick McMullan) The two co-op buildings at 115 East 67th Street and 116 East 68th Street, the New York Times noted in 2011, are "covered with storks,...
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Strength in the Union: Real Estate Power Couple Drops Zeckendorf Towers Condo...
Kate Vanek Last year, when CEO of the eminent structural engineering firm Thornton and Tomassetti Thomas Scarangello and his wife Roxanne Donovan—who heads up the real estate PR firm Great Ink—were...
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Inside Job: Hot Shot Interior Architect Thomas Juul-Hansen Sells Tribeca...
Thomas Juul-Hansen (Matz Form) Were we Seattle-based doctors in the market for a Tribeca co-op, it would probably never occur to us to seek out an available unit inhabited most recently by a renowned...
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Actor Armand Assante’s Rural Estate Due for Bankruptcy Auction in May
Armand Assante It is possible to spend decades working in Hollywood, grow wealthy from the proceeds of appearances on stage and screen, and to garner plaudits from televised awards shows without ever...
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