Posted by in Real Estate on 09 2nd, 2010 | No Comments
No Fun in the Sun: Jean Nouvel’s West Chelsea Starchitecture Blinding the Neighbors?
No Fun in the Sun: Jean Nouvel’s West Chelsea Starchitecture Blinding the Neighbors?
The Frenchman’s 100 Eleventh Avenue is known as the “Vision Machine,” but the building seems to be getting something in the eye of Shigeru Ban’s Metal Shutter Houses , it’s high-profile neighbor across 19th Street. As part of a series in which the blog visited a different...
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Posted by in Real Estate on 09 2nd, 2010 | No Comments
Celebrity Real Estate: Darryl Strawberry Reviews Ohm; Knick Eyes Fifth Avenue Cupola
Celebrity Real Estate: Darryl Strawberry Reviews Ohm; Knick Eyes Fifth Avenue Cupola
Found at new Far West Side rental tower Ohm : lobby rock concerts, light shows, lockbox drug storage , and former Met/Yankee (and current restauranteur!) Darryl Strawberry . He’s been in residence at his $5,295/month rental for a few months, so it’s time for the Post’s Max Gross to...
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Posted by in Real Estate on 09 2nd, 2010 | No Comments
A Building Gets Fixed: EV Grieve noted scaffolding going up…
A Building Gets Fixed: EV Grieve noted scaffolding going up…
EV Grieve noted scaffolding going up at troubled party zone the A Building earlier this week, and now points out that a DOB permit has been issued for emergency balcony repair . This is but one of the building’s recent construction, financial, and aquatic problems . And it’s created another,...
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Posted by in New York on 09 1st, 2010 | No Comments
Update Gunman Shot At Discovery Channel HQ
Update Gunman Shot At Discovery Channel HQ
Via Update, 5:15 p.m. : DCist reports that Lee was shot. Here’s what Montgomery County Police Chief Tom Manger said, “He took three people hostage, near the lobby area of the entrance to the building. Over the past several hours, we’ve been in negotiations with the man. Approximately...
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Posted by in Real Estate on 08 31st, 2010 | No Comments
CurbedWire: Big Tribeca Building Sold Out; Signs of Life at 25 Broad
CurbedWire: Big Tribeca Building Sold Out; Signs of Life at 25 Broad
TRIBECA&#151 The granite-and-glass 101 Warren Street , of Whole Foods and school civil war fame, has sold out! Edward J. Minskoff Equities and Corcoran Sunshine made the announcement today, four years after the 35-story, 227-unit development launched sales. The $650 million sellout is “by...
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Posted by in New York on 08 31st, 2010 | No Comments
Bed-Stuy Fire Deemed Suspicous
Bed-Stuy Fire Deemed Suspicous
(WPIX) Yesterday morning just before 4:30 a.m., a fire broke out in a brownstone on Putnam Aveue in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Nine civilians, plus four firefighters (including one whose face was burned ), were injured and fire officials say the fire was “suspicious.” The...
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Posted by in Real Estate on 08 30th, 2010 | No Comments
PriceChopper: Glassy 1055 Park Avenue Offers Any Takers 30 Percent Off
Glassy sliver building 1055 Park Avenue squeezed itself in among the more traditional architecture of Park Ave, but it hasn’t had quite as much luck squeezing itself into buyers’ hearts. The penthouse PriceChoppage started early, and now the Chopper’s back for the rest. Unit prices...
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Posted by in New York, Real Estate on 08 30th, 2010 | No Comments
Door Prizes: New York’s JhoRo put together a…
New York ’s JhoRo put together a slideshow of apartments offering buyers all sorts of perks, and we kind of love the Let’s Make A Deal strategy at Williamsburg’s 1 Powers Street : “A buyer can pick one perk from a lineup that includes a free Vespa LX50; 12 orders from Freshdirect...
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Posted by in New York, Real Estate on 08 30th, 2010 | No Comments
Lawsuits: Billionaire Developer’s ‘Deteriorating Condition’ Revealed in Court
Tamir Sapir , Soviet-born cabbie turned Big Apple real estate titan, has had an interesting last few years. His company, the Sapir Organiation , helped develop such high-profile buildings as Trump Soho. He bought (for $40 million) and sold (for $44 million) Fifth Avenue’s iconic Duke Semans Mansion....
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Posted by in Real Estate on 08 30th, 2010 | No Comments
Shitshows: Buyer Unhappiness Spreads at Long Island City’s Arris Lofts
Shitshows: Buyer Unhappiness Spreads at Long Island City’s Arris Lofts
Once the can of worms that is Long Island City condo conversion Arris Lofts is opened, there’s no predicting what will happen. This time around, not only are the owners of the building’s priciest condo trying to back out of their purchase two years after making it—but the owners of...
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