Real Estate

Nov 18, 2008

In an attempt to lure hesitant customers, Fifth Avenue shops are breaking out the sale signs early this holiday season. [NY Times] Bowery apartment building vacated after the DOB deems it unfit for habitation....

Nov 18, 2008

Marc Shaw, a former deputy mayor in the Bloomberg administration and now a vice president at Gary Barnett’s Extell Development, is headed to work for Governor Paterson. The Paterson administration announced...

Nov 18, 2008

7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mingle with 15,000 business people at the third NY Xpo for Business—New York’s largest business networking event. Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, 665 West 34th Street. Returning attendees...

Nov 18, 2008

Crain's keeps tabs on the situation hounding Realogy, the parent company of the Corcoran Group and Sotheby's International Realty, among other brokerage brand-names. The firm, which was taken private...

Nov 18, 2008

The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission today voted to landmark the I. M. Pei-designed Silver Towers, giving the set of NYU-owned apartment buildings known as University Village a protective status. The...

Nov 18, 2008

Pryor, Cashman, a mid-size entertainment law firm resplendent with B-list clients, has announced it will take 100,000 square feet at Times Square Tower, the Boston Properties building on 42nd Street between...

Nov 18, 2008

McGolrick Park, Greenpoint. Photo by suzyo from the Brownstoner Flickr pool. Your $400 Check Might Be in the Mail Soon [City Room] Steal This Look: Simple Dutch Children’s Room [Remodelista] Notes From...

Nov 18, 2008

Open House NYC has decided to profile our house of the day from September 15th, still on the market with Brown Harris Stevens. This should give you a real

Nov 18, 2008

During the Thursday meeting, The MTA is expected to: completely do away with the "W" line, which runs from Queens to Manhattan, and the "Z" line, which runs through Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan. Also...

Nov 18, 2008

Doesn't it seem like prices have only dropped on places you don't want? Or, the places you want haven't seen price drops anywhere near what you expect? It's possible that the desirable places will never...

Nov 18, 2008

Camper, the Majorca-based shoe retailer, has purchased an appropriately stylish little one-story building at the corner of Prince and Greene streets for $16 million. Camper closed the deal on Nov. 13,...

Nov 18, 2008

Rents these days! For all this chatter about a recession, it’s still awfully expensive to live in Manhattan. Taking a quick gander at the average rents for Manhattan neighborhoods in Citi Habitats’ October...

Nov 18, 2008

Here are some of the topics posted on The Forum today: Where to Find These Interior Shutter Latches? Advice for Exposing Plastered Over Fireplace Recs for Cabinet Door Painting/Spraying Programmable Thermostat...

Nov 18, 2008

236 Livingston will be a 271-unit residential rental project with two towers: 26 stories on Livingston and 10 on Schermerhorn. The developer is Shlomo Karpen, who's had some trouble in the past (having...

Nov 18, 2008

This little corner of the Slope (or South Slope, depending on if you think South Slope starts at 9th or 15th Streets), is seeing more and more action: restaurants and cafés are making their way down 6th...

Nov 18, 2008

The LPC voted 6-2 today to allow an underground parking garage at Riverside Apartments in Brooklyn Heights, "a group of eclectic style brick apartment houses with a central courtyard designed by Alfred...

Nov 18, 2008

From GlobeSt: "Paramount Group, Inc. and a corporate pension trust advised by JP Morgan Asset Management have entered a joint venture to recapitalize 31 W. 52nd St. Paramount acquired the 776,849-square-foot...

Nov 18, 2008

Opponents of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn have never held back in criticizing the media’s coverage—or what they say is a lack thereof—of the more than $4 billion planned development....

Nov 18, 2008

Home prices in London's swankiest neighborhoods are dropping faster than in the rest of Britain, according to the Wall Street Journal. The reason? You guessed it: the financial crisis. The sorts of buyers...

Nov 18, 2008

The owners of 318 1st Street, who paid $1,775,000 for their three-story brownstone in 2005, set about trying to sell their house back in February by listing it with Brown Harris Stevens for $2,250,000;...

Nov 18, 2008

"There is a great opportunity to purchase real estate today," Wendy Silverstein, the executive vice president of capital markets at Vornado Realty Trust, said at the conference. "Unfortunately, if you...

Nov 18, 2008

Yowza! It's a tough time to hit the market with a $6,250,000 price tag, to be sure, but this is about as blue-chip as they come. The four-bedroom apartment has beaucoup prewar details, views of lower...

Nov 18, 2008

Why is Crow Hill, a swath of Crown Heights running roughly between Franklin and Classon and Atlantic and Eastern Parkway, called Crow Hill? Well, even folks at the Crow Hill Community Association aren't...

Nov 18, 2008

Be generous to those Fifth Avenue merchants this holiday shopping season: They've got a helluva rent to pay. According to a new CB Richard Ellis report, Fifth Avenue remains the world's most expensive...