A garage in Manhattan’s East Village is asking $1M for a single parking space. The Post points out that for that sum—six times the national average for a single-family home—you might rather park illegally and pay a $115 ticket every day for 24 years. Ah, New York: what else can one expect from a city where $90M apartments are a dime a dozen? [New York Post; Curbed NY]
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Lifestyles of the Rich and Richer: A garage in Manhattan’s East Village…
The all-American characters of Gary and Elaine have wormed their way into households aplenty thanks to the ingenuity of Molly Erdman, whose Catalog Living blog points to styling curiosities within catalogs. Here now, Erdman does the same for shelter magazine photos. One setback Martin didn’t anticipate when he invited his co-workers over for dinner is that they would quickly discover why all their desk lamps had gone missing. Photo by Eric Piasecki/ Elle Decor
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What’s the world’s most dominating Swedish furnishings retailer up to these days? Oh, not much, just launching an Indian-inspired product line in its UK stores (mandala patterns and all), and dividing the Australian populace into seven different types of “sleepers” —the starfish, the black belt, the chatterbox, and so on—for its new mattress promo. [PFSK]
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Looks like architect Steven Holl has bought a glassy new penthouse in Manhattan’s West Village for $2,209,999. Fun, slightly irrelevant fact: Holl once proposed marriage to a fellow architect using a rendering of a ring rather than an actual ring. [Curbed NY]
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Architect-Approved Architecture: Looks like architect Steven Holl has…
Mindy Kaling’s new sitcom was picked up for the 2012-2013 television season, and will air on Fox starting later this year. The actress (and producer, and author, and all around multitalent) will star in The Mindy Project (the title will likely change ) as an OB-GYN “who’s trying to get her life in order”… and guess what? She’s doing it all in Manhattan. [ more › ]
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Hark, is there a new refuge in Herald Square, that crowded festering urban bloodclot that short-tempered New Yorkers avoid at all cost? Too soon to tell, but there does seem to be ample elbow room inside The Liberty , a gigantic new cocktail lounge, beer hall, and restaurant on West 35th Street. Owned by a pair of Australians who promise to save “the neighborhood that cool forgot,” The Liberty has 5,000 square feet, 18-foot-high ceilings, and two levels to explore while pre-gaming before an event at the Garden or avoiding a dreaded LIRR commute. [ more › ]
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Inside The Liberty, A Massive New Barstaurant In Herald Square
Now that the police admit they were wrong in arresting a Park Slope man for a series of groping attacks in Manhattan, the cops have released a new set of surveillance video images of the suspected “well-dressed groper.” [ more › ]
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Photo via Apartment Therapy EVERYWHERE —On June 26, Molly Erdman, she who writes the Catalog Living blog and the Magazine Living column on Curbed, will publish her first coffee table book. Preorders over here. [CurbedWire Inbox] LOS ANGELES —Former Desperate Housewives actor Jess Metcalfe has sold his 2,000-square-foot home for $1.7M. [TMZ] LOS ANGELES —The La Cienega Design District is gearing up for its annual LEGENDS event, which will consist of panel discussions, book signings, exhibitions, and parties. Featured speakers and participants include Waldo Fernandez (the interior designer responsible for this year’s Oscar Greenroom), Trip Haenisch (Courteney Cox’s decorator ), Mary McDonald ( star of Bravo’s Million Dollar Decorators ), Muriel Brandolini (who may live in one of Manhattan’s coolest apartments), and more. LEGENDS runs Wednesday through Friday this week; register over here. [CurbedWire Inbox]
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CurbedWire: Catalog Living’s First Book; La Cienega Design Bonanza
The Manhattan townhouse where French diplomat Dominique Strauss-Kahn spent a few harrowing weeks in the aftermath of a rape allegation has been reduced in price by $2.1M to $9.9M. DSK reportedly spent $60K per month leasing the place, which has one of NYC’s coolest home theaters. [Curbed NY]
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Frank Gehry has just added a chess set to his much-established line for Tiffany & Co. According to Gizmodo, the architect took a prominent role in the design process, rendering the bone-china pieces into his signature deconstructivist forms based on what they do in the game; for instance, “the soft curves of the queen contrast the sharp angles of the king, while the pawns have all been equipped with cannons atop them.” Buy the game for $25,000 through special order—roughly the cost of two months’ rent for one of the three-bedroom, one-bathroom units at the Gehry’s 8 Spruce Street tower in Manhattan. · Frank Gehry’s Tiffany Chess Set is a Miniature Architectural Marvel [Gizmodo via Geekosystem ]
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Toys ‘n’ Games: Here Now, a $25,000 Frank Gehry-Designed Chess Set