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The Rise of Single People Hurts Affordable Housing
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The nation’s largest wealth gap is in Manhattan. Surprised? [Crain’s] A clean-water activist plans to take the ultimate plunge on Earth Day, swimming 1.8 miles through Brooklyn’s toxic Gowanus Canal. [Brooklyn Paper] Five real estate myths that snag buyers and sellers. [Washington Post] Real estate crowd funding firm Prodigy Network has plans to develop shared […]
Famed director David Fincher—of “Fight Club,” “Gone Girl” and “House of Cards” fame—may be moving to Tribeca. Fincher reportedly put down $5.75M on a three-bedroom at 7 Harrison where fellow director Steven Soderbergh also lives. [Variety] You can rent acclaimed artist Bettina Werner’s apartment at Downtown by Starck for $9,000/month—or $8,500/month if you pay it all in […]
New Jersey is becoming more and more like Brooklyn by the minute. Junior’s is moving its baking facility to NJ. [Crain’s] Jet Blue wants to turn the iconic Eero Saarinen-designed TWA flight terminal at JFK into a hotel. [WSJ] Bruce Eichner on collecting air rights for his supertalls. [CO] The NY Public Library is moving forward with plans […]
On Monday we took a look at an infographic from CityRealty that shows how much more penthouse buyers pay compared to their neighbors directly below. Analyzing the top penthouse sales recorded in 2014, they found that “high-rise top floor buyers on average shell out 11 percent more per square foot for their pads than their counterparts just below. Looking at the average […]
More photos of Lauren Bacall’s Dakota apartment have been added to the recently reduced $23.5M listing. [CityRealty] David Jaffee, a.k.a NYC’s Airbnb Slumlord, may face criminal charges for creating dorm-like Airbnb rentals out of Manhattan apartments. [NYP] Alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell, accused of fixing up financier Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew, Duke of York, with minors, has […]
The amount of trees a neighborhood has can signal income inequality. [CityLab] This Vinegar Hill townhouse previously eyed by Robert Pattinson has sold for a neighborhood record of $3.35M. [DNA Info] United American Land is suing an investment banker for renting out his rent-stabilized Tribeca apartment on Airbnb. [CO] Is this Bates+Masi-designed beach house too tiny […]
NYCHA plans to make upgrades to the city’s housing projects to make them more green. [NYT] Why your upstairs neighbors are so darn noisy. [Boston] A renovated Greenwich Village townhouse is asking a record $38.5 million. [WSJ] Gracie Mansion has asbestos, but Mayor Bill de Blasio and his family will remain in the house while the issue is being […]