Real Estate

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The National Bureau of Economic Research officially announces a U.S. recession; the Dow drops 680 points. [NY Times] A bus driver is stabbed to death in Bed-Stuy after denying a passenger a transfer. [City...

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6 p.m. to 8 p.m. How can New York and New Jersey take advantage of their ample waterfronts to better serve their communities and jumpstart a stalled economy? Find out at “On The Waterfront: Finding the...

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Brooklyn Works! Photo by bellevuestudio from the Brownstoner Flickr pool. Punked on Prospect [GL] Water Problems at The Vue [IMBY] Best. Subway Announcer. EVER. [New York Shitty] Residents Sweat Bushwick’s...

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Bruce Ratner has drawn resentment and scorn in the Brooklyn community surrounding his planned $4 billion Atlantic Yards project, but now he’s inspired cultural enrichment. Sort of. A local theater company...

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We dropped on you this morning the gong-rattling pronouncement that Manhattan is now a tenant's market by the two most important measures: rents (they're dropping across the board) and vacancies (they're...

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On the Renovation Blogs, South Slope Reno tries to get their kitchen ready in time for Thanksgiving. Here are some of the topics posted on The Forum today: Natural Gas Heating Costs Ideas for Double...

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Plenty of progress at 222 Duffield in downtown Brooklyn. Gene Kaufman Architects' design for the hotel duo includes a 300-room Sheraton and a 180-room Aloft. That's an awful lot of inventory considering...

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Prospect Heights/Crown Heights residents celebrating what looked like a new pub on Prospect between Washington and Grand saw the light last week — the movie lights, that is. Gowanus Lounge reports...

Dec 1, 2008

From Curbed: "Legendary Upper West Side landmark, coveted luxury rental building, celebrity-filled hideaway—the Apthorp is/was all of these things, and now thanks to an epic and bitter condo conversion,...

Dec 1, 2008

It's 1999 all over again! Nervous New York apartment landlords are offering more concessions to lure tenants. [NY Mag] "Condo owners are definitely dropping their starting prices. Those living downtown—in...

Dec 1, 2008

This house at 170 South Oxford Street in Fort Greene is a cutie, all the more charming for its unusual large front yard. The 4,000-square-foot brick house, which is asking $1,675,000, appears to be in...

Dec 1, 2008

$500 a foot in prime Brooklyn Heights? You betcha. There is one catch with well-located and well-appointed pad: A distinct shortage of windows. The railroad-style apartment has just two windows at the...

Dec 1, 2008

“Ratner was trying to help all these people. He doesn’t just take your property, he offers fair market value. If you’re gonna say no cuz you wanna be in the way of progress . . ." That's one Proud Brooklynite's...

Dec 1, 2008

Developer Dean Palin's plan to put up a 40-story rental tower on the Greenpoint Waterfront took one small step closer to fruition when the Community Board 1 land use committee voted 7-0 (with one abstention)...

Dec 1, 2008

State Liquor Authority Chairman Daniel Boyle, ranked No. 21 on The Observer's 100 Most Powerful People in New York Real Estate, has lost some clout in the apparent political fallout from his unsuccessful...

Dec 1, 2008

Last November, the Post's Steve Cuozzo railed against the campaign to preserve Hotel Pennsylvania, which he called "one of the gloomiest structures between the Battery and The Bronx." Now, the...

Dec 1, 2008

More than 200 folks gathered at a part for 20 Henry last week, and the project sure has generated a lot of buzz (their PR folks reported that they'd received 1,900 inquiries long before sales officially...

Dec 1, 2008

And now, the final in our mini-series looking at homes featured in Brooklyn Modern by Diana Lind, with photographs by Yoko Inoue. Here's Diana's installment #4: Susan Boyle and Benton Brown live the dream...

Dec 1, 2008

It's never too late to go green, and it's never too early either. Eco-friendly playrooms are not only healthier, but they teach kids about the environment. One mom wanted a green playroom for her three...

Dec 1, 2008

Did you know Brooklyn was the Borough of Trees? Actually, we're not sure it is (though once it was known as the Borough of Churches), but the renter-friendly Web site movingtoanapartment.com has added...

Dec 1, 2008

The holiday shopping season got off to a better-than-expected start, as retailers reeled in cautious shoppers with massive discounts like "buy one get one free" sweaters at Gap Inc. stores, $200 iPod Touch...

Dec 1, 2008

Yes, "peculiar" was the adjective ascribed to Stewart Woodford’s red brick house 869 President Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, courtesy of the Brooklyn Eagle in 1885. While other houses built around...

Dec 1, 2008

Yowza! In an email time-stamped 6:38 a.m., The Real Estate Group New York declared that Manhattan was now, for all intents and purposes, a tenant's market going forward. "Landlords are feeling a lot...

Dec 1, 2008

“Tin Pan Alley is gone,” Bob Dylan wrote in the jacket of his 1997 album Biograph. “I put an end to it.” The neighborhood that was once the hub of the American music-publishing industry in the early 20th...