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Lights Out? Smokers’ Rights Group Enlisted, Without Success, to Tangle with...
The New York Peace Institute, a group devoted to mediation and conflict resolution, recently received an inquiring message from Audrey Silk, the founder of a non-profit known as NYC C.L.A.S.H.—Citizens...
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Construction at Modern 19 Building Reaches Completion, Even as Minor Identity...
A rendering of Modern 19 Have you admired, in passing, Israeli developer Erez Itzhaki's luxurious Modern 23 condominium building at 350 West 23rd Street? Do you covet its Daniel Goldner design—its...
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The Science of Sexy: LA Power Couple Drops $4.95 M. on Chelsea Townhouse
It's all about symmetry: we assume this applies to townhouses renovation as well? (Patrick McMullan) If there is one thing the fashion and interior designer, author, artist, real estate developer and...
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Could More Flexible Air Rights Policies Facilitate the Growth of Affordable...
Could laxer air rights policies enable more affordable housing? During the 1970s fiscal crisis, the city acquired significant quantities of property by way of owner abandonment and tax foreclosure,...
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Get on Your Horse! Shipping Magnate Snaps Up $12.49 M. UES Townhouse
Eric Kronfeld. (Benoit Photography) Lou Reed manager, facilitator of albums by the Who and Eric Clapton and breeder of the champion racehorse Zenyatta, Eric Kronfeld, a tough-talking lawyer and record...
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Work-Life Balance: California Producer Contracts for Flatiron Loft Listed at...
Cast-iron in Flatiron. On one of many recent frigid days, Prime Manhattan broker Robert Danker had more than wet feet and windburn to complain about. Having scheduled a viewing for a full-floor unit...
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River House Refugee Barbara Taylor Bradford Swept Off her Feet By Park Avenue...
Robert and Barbara Taylor Bradford (barbarataylorbradford.com) Having sold their place at River House in December for a paltry $10 million—about $9 million less than they would have liked—the wildly...
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Did You Just Double-Dip That Chip? Cuomo Cracks Down on School Tax Relief Abuse
Double-dippers beware. (Health Results Group, LLC) Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today that so-called "double-dippers"—New York residents enjoying both rent-regulated apartments and School Tax Relief...
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Do I Hear $2.5 Million? Ritz-Carlton Battery Park City Condo Due for April...
Ritzy digs. The last time we spoke with the fine folks at Sheldon Good & Company (SGC), the New York-based auctioneer, they were poised to open bidding on a tract of land in North Dakota, which...
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Jet Set Pair Touches Down at $4.1 M. Fifth Avenue Co-op
Now that's what we call sweeping. Having launched Protravel in 1984—the US branch, for its first six years, of a larger French travel agency—Priscilla Alexander had the good fortune to preside over the...
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Gramercy Owners Take Up (Legal) Arms Against DOT Over Bus Stop Expansion
(flickr, Mark Morgan) At least since Robert Moses capitulated to the demands of the robber barons and their estates—at the considerable expense of Long Island farmers—in routing the Northern State...
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King of Queens: $2.15 M. Townhouse Sets Local Long Island City Record
Get regal in Queens. For years now, rumor has suggested that Long Island City will, before long, finally "arrive." It is a phenomenon—that of the persistent but long-unrealized rumor—to which we've...
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The Finest in Gentrification: W. Village Tenement Goes Luxe, Asks $22.5 M.
That’s a coffered ceiling, in case you were wondering. For the moment, the grandeur of the interiors slated for the landmarked townhouse at 79 Horatio Street, in the West Village, remains a matter of...
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The $4.25 M. Fixer Upper: Historic Brooklyn Heights Townhouse Hits the Market
Stately, if slightly worn. Home over the years to a leather merchant by the name of Kumble, an inn keeper-cum-detective known as Mrs. Brown and a larcenous maid named Hoyle—who had a taste for...
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Flips Without Flops: Condo at 15 CPW Last Listed for $13.9 M. Enters Contract
The living room, naturally, is “generous.” According to the journalist Michael Gross’ new book House of Outrageous Fortune, a chronicle of the majestic—albeit parking-challenged—15 Central Park West,...
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On the Market: Next Up, Parks; Atlantic Yards Gets Meditation Room, While...
(Flickr, Rob Boudon) All signs point to Silver (Mitchell, that is) for Parks commissioner appointment. [Crain's] Suburban barons rent space for company, pet care and the all-important Melrose Place...
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On the Market: Leaky Pipes Below, Renovations Above; Hannah Horvath...
(Flickr, Lucius Kwok.) Subterranean gas leaks appear to be frighteningly common. [NYT] And up above, the New Yorker Hotel aims to get back in the ring. [WSJ] Developers eye boat-service station in Red...
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What Does a Guy Have to Do to Sell a Mansion Around Here?: Former Home of...
Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper (Patrick McMullan) How does one turn a 14,000 square-foot Upper East Side mansion into what one prominent townhouse broker recently called “a dog”? Well, one could...
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Who Wants to Buy Alec Baldwin’s Amagansett Farmhouse?
Alec Baldwin, seemingly in a pretty good mood. (Patrick McMullan) Alec Baldwin has not changed. We know, because he’s told us that it’s so. New York has changed. Public life has changed. And the things...
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In the Clear: Former GM Exec Drops West Village Townhouse for $7.25 M.
Renee Harbors Liddell and Chris Liddell (Patrick McMullan) As you’ve probably heard, things over at General Motors are, shall we say, less than hunky dory at the moment: 1.6 million vehicles recalled...
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