Tag: real estate

A Columbus Square apartment building. Photo by rbs10025 via flickr. January 13, 2012 Weather: Windy, High of 41 Degrees. News: UDR, a Colorado-based real estate company, and insurance company MetLIfe just bought Columbus Square, the massive glassy five-tower rental apartment complex that also houses Whole Foods and other big retailers ...

Elderly housing project residents, particularly at Amsterdam Houses in the West 60's off of Amsterdam Avenue, are being told that they have to move because they live in apartments with more bedrooms than they need. Some seniors are being told they have to move out of their developments -- and ...

January 5, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 38 Degrees.

One massive record-breaking sale -- the $88 million penthouse at 15 Central Park West -- drew most of the headlines in the New York real estate world in the fourth quarter of 2011. But for the rest of us non-billionaires, the market showed little life in the quarter, with sales ...

Commercial rents around 96th Street have boomed in the past year or so, and many local businesses in the area have shut their doors. Store owners tell us that rents have been rocketing higher in the past year, and they hold their breath every time they have to sign a ...

By Maria Gorshin What if you learned that two townhouses on West 74th Street were slated for demolition? What if you knew that a 35-story hotel would soon rise in their place to loom over Broadway and tower over Fairway? No need to start a petition or book a suite ...

Third-grade teacher Eric Schneider bought a 450-square-foot studio on 73rd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues in 2005 for $235,000. But soon he began to feel a little, shall we say, cramped. So he asked a couple of architects, Michael Chen and Kari Anderson of Normal Projects, to show him ...

West Side Rag columnist Richard Kriheli is living in a one-bedroom apartment with his wife and son, but he's looking to upgrade to a two-bedroom so he can live like a, you know, human being.

Overall, Manhattan rents dipped slightly in November from the month before, but not on the Upper West Side, according to a new report. Rentals are getting much more expensive, even eclipsing prices during the height of the real estate boom. Demand for rentals is high, and some people who would ...

Dear Upper West Side Realtors & Brokers, Enough with the shenanigans! I’m so on to you. You’ve breached listings with lies and your act is rusty. The business of deceit and the bait-n-switch is a tired racket. But fear not! I’ve come to help you with your honesty-woes. See, I’m ...

Buy Sanford Weill's old penthouse at 15 Central Park West on 63rd Street for his asking price of $88 million and you will get: Penthouse: Yes Rooms: 10.0 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 6.5 Library: Yes Outdoor space: Terrace Woodburning fireplaces: 2 City views: Yes Park views: Yes Air conditioning: Central Air ...

Do you like the feeling of walls closing in on you? Have you ever wanted to literally roll out of bed into the shower? Then maybe this 100-square-foot rental at 114 West 71st Street is exactly what you need! It's going for $1,000, and the broker points out: "This is ...

The last free-standing mansion on the Upper West Side is back on the market, at a 50% discount to its previous price. Yes, for a mere $15 million you can own the landmark 18-room pleasure palace known as the Schinasi House at 351 Riverside Drive near 107th Street.

A proposal to build a skinny 14-story building in a tiny lot on 75th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway was rejected by the Upper West Side community board on Tuesday night after local residents stood up to denounce it. The vote was nearly unanimous. The proposed building is the ...

Most of us have a clue as to why developers pay so much attention to lobbies that impress buyers. Such lobbies can tip the balance between making an offer and continuing the search for a new home.

During my routine tour of open houses one Sunday, I happened upon a two-bedroom, two-bath co-op in the high 60s off of Central Park West.

Rents on the Upper West Side have been going up for the past year, and in September they hit a new milestone: the average price of a

Three stores that have been vacant for months on Amsterdam Avenue between 78th and 79th Streets could soon (but not too soon) be bustling with new business. That block, in the heart of the Upper West Side, has been looking a lot like Detroit: for much of the past year, ...

Broadway between 77th and 78th Streets has become a blasted-out landscape of destruction after small businesses were bulldozed to make way for a gleaming new high-rise and CVS. This is the cause of much hand-wringing on the Upper West Side, as the neighborhood is losing small businesses at a rapid ...

So you want to know how the other half lives? You sometimes imagine yourself living an apartment with a view more expansive than that alleyway you gaze into all day? Well, brokers at Brown Harris Stevens gave people a peek at the view you'd get if you were willing to ...