Before the multi-hyphenate It girls of the 21st century, there was Lee Bouvier Radziwill—younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, wife of a Polish prince for a time, and well known socialite, tastemaker, and fixture of the Upper East S…
In movie industry parlance, New York City’s Second Avenue subway line was in ‘development hell’ for almost 100 years —as many Upper East Siders who ride the very crowded Lexington Avenue subway train daily know first hand. Plans for the …
Condo fever continues to spread across New York real estate, replacing any available land with shiny towers. Now that the most obvious places for construction have been exhausted, developers are increasingly turning to smaller co-ops to buy…
Thankfully, it’s been a long time since the Lehman Brothers fiasco and nationwide real estate market crash. The recession has since faded away and Manhattan and many parts of Brooklyn are seeing a flurry of new buildings going up or breaki…
When the well-heeled downtown set lost their power due to the effects of Hurricane Sandy, they didn’t load up on candles, batteries and canned goods; instead, they ditched their West Village brownstones and Soho lofts and headed to the …
If we gave Manhattan neighborhoods human personalities, the meatpacking district may be the hip, in-the-know popular cousin and Central Park South would be the conservative Wall Street banker uncle, it would stand to reason that Murray …
The idea of cooperative living was hatched in the early 1900s in New York City as a way for people to either have a say in who they had as neighbors, or as a way for building tenants to band together and exert some control over their qua…
It’s no secret—in fact, it’s been a problem for years: residential developers in Manhattan and other hot areas like Downtown Brooklyn are running out of space. Various solutions have been applied to the space issue over the years.…