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In a Hot Market, Investing in Outdated Listings Can be a Savvy Move for Brokers
“Floating” over the Park. “The way you live is not necessarily the way to show an apartment,” Fenwick Keats broker and partner Robert Anzalone recently told the Observer. “You need to showcase a...
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On the Market: Walker Evans on the Subway; Jed Walentas is One Tough Cookie
Bluesguy/flickr. Apparently, student debt is kind of a problem, especially for young New Yorkers. The Times has the story! Student loans, it seems, can make it difficult for fresh graduates to buy or...
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Out of the West: Prominent Santa Fe Gallerist Lists UES Condo for $8.28 M.
Spy any billionaires? In 2004, Robert Toll—co-founder of luxury developer Toll Brothers—decided that his three-bedroom on the 20th floor of 30 East 85th Street wasn’t quite doing it for him. So he sold...
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Brazilian Decorator Renata Seripieri Buys at 530 Park Avenue for $9.69 M.
The model unit at 530 Park Avenue, fuzzy chairs optional. One wonders whether, sensing hostility among New Yorkers to increasing numbers of foreign investors in their midst, said investors might grow...
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Legal Tender: Power Lawyer Arthur Liman’s River House Pad Can Be Yours for...
A promising start. “River House speaks for itself,” Douglas Elliman broker Betsy Green told the Observer on a recent tour of 4,100 square-foot penthouse that she is currently co-listing for $14.5...
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Workers at Luxurious West Village Condo Strike in Protest of Intimidation...
The Printing House. It was not until yesterday afternoon that workers at the Printing House, a luxury building at 421 Hudson Street, officially went on strike, walking out over alleged intimidation...
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Burn One Down: Smokers Triumph as Smoking Ban Goes Down At UWS Condo
Celebrate good times. (Photo via Getty) And when the smoke cleared at the Vaux building, at 372 Central Park West… well, it didn’t. After a protracted battle with the condo board, residents opposed to...
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Bedraggled Fort Greene Townhouse Sells for $1.99 M. to a (The?) Matthew Barney
Quite charming. Are the artist Matthew Barney and Björk the new owners of an Italianate frame house at 67 South Elliott Place in Fort Greene? Certainly, there is a Matthew Barney who recently purchased...
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The Bones Speak: The Printhouse Lofts in Williamsburg are Primed for Market
No bones about it. On a warm and misty morning last week, the Observer met Dave Maundrell, president and founder of Apartments and Lofts (aptsandlofts.com), at 139 North 10th Street in Williamsburg for...
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Total Sell-Out: Punk Rock Frontman Nabs Prospect Heights Townhouse for $3.33 M.
NYHC 4 Lyfe. Aren’t punk rockers supposed to move into rundown neighborhoods, claiming them for their own so that they complain later about the whitewashing influence of gentrification before young...
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Step Right Up! Park Ave. Co-op of Late Big Apple Circus Founder Sells for...
911 Park Avenue. Park Avenue—at least the part of it in Manhattan—perhaps more so than any other street in the world, brings to mind certain anti-egalitarian notions. And the building at 911 Park,...
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Ultra Modern Townhouse on Columbia Waterfront Asks (Only) $15 K. in Rent
Lovely louvers. Are you a family man looking to move from Bergen County to Brooklyn? Are you perhaps frustrated by the lack of inventory in the borough’s most sought-after brownstone neighborhoods?...
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Separate and Unequal: In Defense of Extell’s Latest Foray into Economic...
228 Cherry Street, where an affordable rental will rise. (Ed Litvak, the Lo-Down) The put-upon postures that New York City developers often adopt, seemingly by habit, in the face of populist complaint...
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A Man of Vision: Pyramid Marketing Guru Nabs Pair of West Chelsea Condos for...
James and Loren Ridinger with Hulk Hogan. (Patrick McMullan) Certain parties wondered five years ago whether contemporary art adviser and curator Allan Schwartzman had gotten a good deal on the...
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A Steal at $15 M.? Beaux-Arts Mansion Last Listed for $20 Million Enters...
58 East 66th Street. Last week’s top residential contract, as real estate hounds no-doubt know by now, was for an 18-room duplex at 740 Park Avenue listed at $48 million, for which a bidding war drove...
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Sweet Smell of Success: Wife of Late Broadway Legend Nabs BK Heights Pad for...
Terre Blair. (Patrick McMullan) When Terre Blair, a one-time news anchor, agreed to marry Marvin Hamlisch—fabled Broadway composer of A Chorus Line, Sweet Smell of Success, winner of Oscars, Tonys and...
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Embattled Art Collector Sells UES Gallery-Apartment for $12.97 M.
Bettina and Donald Bryant. (Patrick McMullan) The architectural firm of Beyer Blinder Belle has been here—oh, and Pollock, Picasso and de Kooning, too. The latter names, of course, represent the more...
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Cloak and Dagger: Shadow Companies Trade Spiffy Condop at 995 Fifth for $12.5 M.
One of those very sprawling living rooms. There is something rather impersonal about the tenth-floor four-bedroom that just sold to unknown buyers for $12.5 million at 995 Fifth Avenue. Chairs and...
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Disgraced Wall Street Honcho Sells UES Pad to S. District Chief Justice for...
Not a bad place to hole up. It can seem nowadays that we live in an era in which, roughly once a decade, a new crop of financial industry villains—some real, others merely scapegoated—comes to the...
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Sales Launch at 50 West Street, Less 30 Percent of Units Raided by Early Buyers
50 West Street. (DBox) Slated for completion in 2016, Time Equities Inc.’s 50 West condo development at—you guessed it—50 West Street in the Financial District, has already managed to unload 30 percent...
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