Nothing whets a buyer’s appetite for pricey real estate more than a classic film, particularly one featuring Audrey Hepburn. Or so one believes after flipping through many an NYC listing with a black-and-white film on the TV. Curbed NY rounds them up. [Curbed NY]
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To honor the end of Q1, Curbed NY compiled a list of the city’s best-selling buildings. Coming in at No. 1: the white-hot Williamsburg property The Edge, which sold 49 units for the median price of $707,684. Also on the list: The Aldyn, site of this year’s Kips Bay showhouse. [Curbed NY; previously ]
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Photo via Contemporist · A tour through the daring Barceló Raval Hotel in Barcelona. [Contemporist] · Many homes now are worth less than what they cost to build. [Huff Po] · Meteor mansions: five homes with observatories. [Realtor.com] · Former White Sox pitcher takes a loss. [Chicago Tribune via Curbed Chicago ] · 18,000 square feet go through the PriceChopper. [Curbed DC] · An Amagansett traditional sets itself apart in the roofline. [Curbed Hamptons] · The best places to buy a fixer-upper. [AOL Real Estate]
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Linkage: Best Places to Purchase a Fixer-Upper; DC PriceChop, More!
A man was struck and killed by a car as he attempted to cross the Bruckner Expressway early this morning. Police responded to a 911 call on the expressway in the vicinity of White Plains Road at around 5:20 a.m. and found that a 36-year-old man had been attempting to cross the expressway from the south end to the north, and was hit by an eastbound 1998 Toyota Camry. The man was transported to Jacobi Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. The driver was also transported to the hospital and treated for minor injuries. No criminality is suspected, and the investigation is ongoing. [ more › ]
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Man Attempting To Cross Bruckner Fatally Struck By Car
Fiorucci, a fashion label founded by Elio Fiorucci in 1967, became popular amongst New Yorkers (and trendsetters like Madonna and Andy Warhol) in the 1970s and early 1980s, after the East 59th Street store opened (right next to those squares at Bloomingdale’s). The store was filled with glitter, gold, lamé, and skin tight jeans—in 1977, a year after the New York flagship opened, NY Mag ran a lengthy piece on the scene, noting, “All it took this year to achieve instant chic, day or night, at the slickest New York party or the trashiest, was a pair of $110 gold cowboy boots from Fiorucci.” [ more › ]
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Video: Revisiting Fiorucci’s Heyday As "The Daytime Studio 54"
The Obama campaign likes to tout that much of their war chest comes from small donors, people who give less than $250. But $250 only wins you the chance to win an awkward dinner with the president, and the joy of cleaning out your inbox every few hours. Want a roughly 75% of meeting the man in the White House? That’ll be $100,000. No word on how much it’d cost to share a cigarette with the president. [ more › ]
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How Much Does A White House Visit Cost? $100K Doesn’t Hurt
A store selling only artisanal flavored mayonnaise opened on Sunday in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn, adding another notch to the borough’s bedpost of pretentiousness. It’s called Empire Mayonnaise, it’s not a joke (in fact, we knew it was coming ), and inside you’ll find flavored mayos like White Truffle, Black Garlic, Lime Pickle, Bacon, Saffron, Preserved Lemon, and Vadouvan (a French curry masala). As we noted last year, the people behind the cans of mayo are chef Sam Mason and his business partner and designer Elizabeth Valleau, who slung the stuff over at the Smorgasburg last summer. [ more › ]
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Mayonnaise Store FINALLY Opens In Brooklyn
Today, the funeral of grandmother Clara Almazo was held at ur Lady of Mount Carmel-Saint Benedicta Church in Staten Island, with Cardinal Timothy Dolan presiding over the service. Almazo was killed on Thursday night while heading home from Holy Thursday mass when a car fatally struck her as she crossed Cary Avenue. Almazo, 57, managed to push her 8-year-old grandson, Brian Herrera-Ramirez, out of the way of the SUV. Dolan said he was moved by her selflessness , “Coming home from Holy Thursday mass, I mean the night that Jesus begins his Passion and giving her life for her little grandson. If that’s not Christian witness, if that’s not heroic virtue I don’t know what is .” [ more › ]
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At Funeral, Boy Saved By Grandmother Says, "She Was My Favorite Grandma"
As of this writing, 208,299 people have viewed this video of a subway fight being broken up by a brave, calm man eating a bag of chips. It matters not what chips they are (Pop Chips? Old Bay-dusted? BBQ?) but how his serenity inspired the couple fighting to lay down their arms and contemplate whether life is worth wasting in combat. [ more › ]
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[UPDATE] Video: Potato Chip Peacemaker Stops Fight On Subway, Inspires World
Saturday is known as “Moving Day” on the PGA Tour, when players try to put themselves in position for a shot at the lead come Sunday. And no sport celebrates the motions of a soon-to-be 42-year-old white guy quite like golf. After 54 holes at Augusta, three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson finds himself in familiar territory: behind a Swedish blond. [ more › ]
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Triumph Of The White Guy: Phil Mickelson Makes Masters Fans Happy