Real Estate

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DOB lifts a stop work order and the Hotel Chelsea gets to work renovating (i.e. demolishing) Bob Dylan’s former apartment. [Curbed] A primo Park Slope brownstone goes condo. [Brownstoner via Curbed] Since...

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On the one hand, the news today that President George W. Bush has bought a 1.13-acre, 8,501-square-foot house in Dallas for $2.07 million must surely be raising some resentment in a nation where nearly...

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4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Princeton University’s Integrated Design for Sustainable Structures program gathers together architects, engineers, and policy makers to forge a path toward sustainable development....

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Easily Spooked. Photo by megunski from the Brownstoner Flickr pool. It's Washington Park Now [OTBKB] Public Service or Propaganda? [Brooklyn Heights Blog] The Gowanus Moment Arrives Again as 'Fringeville'...

Dec 4, 2008

True, there's no actual hall involved in this particular venture, but a new Web site is paying tribute to "a small number of unique native sons and daughters who either hail from Brooklyn or have made...

Dec 4, 2008

Citi Habitats released its November rental market report today (PDF here), showing a continued rise in vacancy rates across all Manhattan neighborhoods, and, while rents continue to soften, there hasn’t...

Dec 4, 2008

Dolly Lenz doesn't see panic at all in the New York housing market. Is she right? [NY Post] A Manhattan real estate lawyer faces 15 years in prison for stealing a condo down payment. [NY Post] Luxury home...

Dec 4, 2008

Over on the Flea Blog, Davina Zagury is bringing her latest project, "My Fantasy Portrait," to the Gifted Holiday Market this Sunday only. If you and your child (or children) want to take part, schedule...

Dec 4, 2008

Let's hope Brooklyn continues to grow as a tourist destination. The transformation from street of auto shops (see old building on right) to street of accommodations continues. Yet another hotel is going...

Dec 4, 2008

Starbucks may be shuttering some shops across the country, but at least one new one may be opening: the corner of Nostrand Avenue and Gravesend Neck Road could be home to a 1,500-square-foot L-shaped...

Dec 4, 2008

This three-story limestone house at 177 Maple Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens was an Open House Pick back in September when it was an FSBO listed at $950,000; now Brooklyn Properties has the listing...

Dec 4, 2008

More than 100 employees of the original Scores club at 333 East 60th Street will keep their jobs, after the State Liquor Authority (SLA) agreed on Wednesday to transfer the upscale strip club's liquor...

Dec 4, 2008

WestLB, the German bank that for months has scoured New York for massive new offices, signed a lease on Dec. 2 for 129,000 square feet on the 50th through 52nd loors of Larry Silverstein’s 7 World Trade...

Dec 4, 2008

The family of Jdimytai Damour, the 34-year-old Wal-Mart worker trampled to death on Black Friday at a Long Island mall, has named mall owner Vornado Realty Trust in its wrongful death suit filed yesterday...

Dec 4, 2008

Flanked by Governor Paterson and Mayor Bloomberg at a midtown press conference, former M.T.A. chairman Dick Ravitch unveiled a package of proposals intended to rescue the authority from financial disaster....

Dec 4, 2008

There were 258 first-time home foreclosure auctions scheduled in New York City in November, according to the latest foreclosure report released today by PropertyShark. That is a significant decline from...

Dec 4, 2008

When the new conversion at 264 Cumberland Street in Fort Greene hit the market last May, the units were priced pretty affordably, which may, in part, explain why there haven't been a whole lot of price...

Dec 4, 2008

When you choose to live in NYC, you agree to live surrounded by a whole mess of things. Subways, neighbors, rats, and noise are the most obvious. But there’s also the invisible, like water tunnels. We...

Dec 4, 2008

After an extraordinary era of construction and renovation, demolition and replacement, there will almost certainly come a long period in which little to nothing gets built...We have inherited, from the...

Dec 4, 2008

If your answer was prostitution, you're not the only one. This Brooklynian thread tries to chart out the nabe's oldest retail spot. The contenders: Pinchik Hardware on Flatbush, rumored to have been here...

Dec 4, 2008

Marty Markowitz was just on the Brian Lehrer show arguing against the Ravitch Commission's proposal to add tolls to the three bridges in Brooklyn as well as the Queensboro Bridge as part of its solution...

Dec 4, 2008

Construction at the Vanderbilt Rail Yards, the MTA-owned site that Forest City Ratner put up $100 million for, has stopped altogether, reports the NY Daily News and Atlantic Yards Report. FCR blames Develop...

Dec 4, 2008

Williamsburg is getting close to having its own movie theater, as evidenced by these images from Curbed yesterday. The development will feature a 168-seat theater with cafe and cabaret topped by a nine-unit...

Dec 4, 2008

In Brooklyn, "condos took a hit pretty much across the board - Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Clinton Hill," Heskel adds. "A lot of developers...can't sell their units so they're panicking. Some are changing...