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Gersh Kuntzman, Brooklyn Paper Editor, Makes Real Estate Porn, Viewers Squirm (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 11.23.2009 | New York

Read More: Brooklyn Paper, Gersh Kuntzman Brooklyn Paper, Gersh Kuntzman, Real Estate, New York Real Estate, Dumbo, New York News

While DUMBO's $25 million clock tower penthouse can get even the prudest New Yorker hot and bothered, few, if any, real estate fans would go out of th...

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In A Canyon, In A Cavern

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment Numbers, Attorneys, Mortgages, Small Business, Mortgage Lenders, Unemployment, New York Real Estate, Economy, Housing-Bubble, Real Estate, Recession, Housing Crisis, Business News
Lita Smith-Mines

I wanted to enjoy my fleeting feelings of karmic payback, knowing how many toxic loans were closed in these cavernous offices. Instead, I pondered: how many jobs in our altered real estate landscape were lost and gone forever?

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New Coney Island Coming To Brooklyn After $100 Million Land Deal

AP | MARCUS FRANKLIN | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York

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NEW YORK — The historic and mostly dormant Coney Island amusement park district in New York City will be revived by next summer with some new at...

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Despite Market Risks, Foreign Buyers Find Bargains In New York City Real Estate

Crain's New York Business | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York

Read More: New York City Real Estate, US Recession, Global Economic Crisis, New York Real Estate, Economy, Economic Crisis, Commercial Real Estate, Hsbc, New York Recession, New York, New York City, Great Depression, New York News

An Israeli firm's deal to buy HSBC Bank USA's headquarters at 452 Fifth Ave. for $330 million signals that foreign investors see Manhattan real estate...

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Eliot Spitzer Sells Murray Hill Garage For $10 Million

The New York Observer | Dana Rubinstein | Posted 10.08.2009 | New York

Read More: Eliot Spitzer Resignation, New York Real Estate, Eliot Spitzer Resigns, Eliot Spitzer Prostitution, Eliot Spitzer Hookers, Real Estate, Eliot Spitzer, New York, Murray Hill, New York News

For all the talk of a return to politics, former Governor Eliot Spitzer remains ensconced in his family's muscular real estate business. Last week, M...

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The Faithful Shopper: Restaurants and Retail -- A Tale of Two Cities

Faith Hope Consolo | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Real Estate, Boston Restaurants, Simon Properties, Prudential Center, Boston Real Estate, Copley Place, New York Restaurants, Davio's, Au Bon Pain, New York News
Faith Hope Consolo

Customers are coming out of retail hiding, just in time for holiday shopping. Boston is yet another example of the resilience of the urban shopper -- one that New York knows all too well!

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New York, New Jersey Have Top Ten Counties With Highest Median Taxes

nytimes.com | PETER APPLEBOME | Posted 10.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Census, Property Taxes, New Jersey, New York Real Estate, Taxes, New York, New York News

Westchester County, No. 1. Nassau, No. 2. Hunterdon and Bergen in New Jersey, Nos. 3 and 4, respectively. And so it goes. Of the 10 counties in the...

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Sotomayor Won't Sell Apartment In This Economy

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 10.02.2009 | New York

Read More: Mortgages, New York Real Estate, Sonia Sotomayor, New York Apartments, Real Estate, New York City, New York, New York News

WASHINGTON — Not even Supreme Court justices are immune from the economy. Justice Sonia Sotomayor plans to keep her apartment in New York for th...

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The Durst Family Rebuilds

The New York Observer | Jotham Sederstrom | Posted 11.15.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Real Estate, Douglas Durst, Jody Durst, Green Building, 4 Times Square, Commercial Observer, Durst Organization, Seymour Durst, NYC Real Estate, Dursts, Durst Family, New York News

The Durst Organization, one of the city's oldest family-run real estate concerns, is in a state of transition. Co-president and chairman Douglas Durst...

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The Impact of the Economic Crisis on New York City Business

Kathryn Wylde | Posted 11.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Kathy Wylde, Harlem, Retail Sales, Financial Services, Urban Policy, New York Real Estate, Charles Rangel, David Paterson, Lehman Brothers, Economic Crisis, Fiscal Crisis, Financial Crisis, Harlem New York, Partnership for New York City, New York City, New York News
Kathryn Wylde

For small business, the recession will be a difficult trial, but it may turn out to provide the wake up call that New York City and State needed to support entrepreneurial companies.

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Afghanistan Buys $4.2 Million Condo In Trump World Tower

The New York Observer | Max Abelson | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Real Estate, Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations, H.E. Zahir Tanin, Afghanistan, United Nations, Trump World Tower, New York News

The Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations has a lovely new apartment. According to two deeds filed Friday, the group spent $4,235,000...

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Morgan Stanley CEO Buys $13.5 M. House

The New York Observer | Max Abelson | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: John Mackey, Morgan Stanley, New York Real Estate, TARP Money, Real Estate, Paul Mellon, Sotheby's, Business News

Less than a year after Morgan Stanley got its $10 billion TARP loan (and exactly two and a half months after the money was repaid), the mammoth firm's...

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The Juiciest Madoff Fruit

The New York Observer | Max Abelson | Posted 09.27.2009 | New York

Read More: 740 Park, New York Real Estate, Merkin Apartment, New York, J. Ezra Merkin, Floor Plans, Ezra Merkin, Bernie Madoff, New York News

The year's most wildly frothed-over piece of plump New York real estate isn't officially on the market. It's not even one of those quiet listings, lik...

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Narrowest House In New York Up For Sale, Listed At $2.7M

AP | Posted 09.26.2009 | New York

Read More: Skinniest House New York, 75 1/2 Bedford Street, Margaret Mead, New York Real Estate, Narrowest House New York, Greenwich Village, Bedford Street, Edna St. Vincent Millay, New York News

NEW YORK — It's 9 1/2 feet wide and 42 feet long and is billed as the narrowest house in New York City. But there's nothing small about its aski...

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Hamptons Real Estate Rally?

AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 09.21.2009 | New York

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EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. — Few real estate markets got hit harder by the recession than the Hamptons, Long Island's summer playground for the rich and...

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Rental Agents Struggle As Moving To New York No Longer Feasible For Some College Grads

New York Real Estate News | Victoria DeCarmine | Posted 09.19.2009 | New York

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As the Manhattan real estate market sits at a standstill and once filled-to-capacity towers rapidly empty out, landlords and brokers struggle to fill ...

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Brooklyn Condos: The Shame Of Living In New, Non-Hipster Apartments

The New York Observer | Irina Aleksander | Posted 09.12.2009 | New York

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Nicole Ferejohn, 27, was paying $1,200 per month to rent a walk-up apartment on Avenue A and St. Marks about a year ago when she decided that it was t...

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New York's Most Exclusive Office Building

The New York Observer | Dana Rubinstein | Posted 09.11.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Real Estate, New York Offices, New York Office Buildings, New York City Buildings, New York Buildings, New York News

In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the Gobelins manufactory wove tapestries for Louis XIV, the absolutist French ruler, who espoused the theor...

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Manhattan's Top 20 Distressed Properties

The New York Observer | Posted 08.17.2009 | New York

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Eight of Manhattan's top 20 distressed properties fall in downtown; and several are well known. ...

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New York's Most Expensive Homes: Only One In Top Ten Has Sold

The New York Observer | Max Abelson | Posted 08.16.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Real Estate, Real Estate, New York, Trump Park Avenue, Manhattan Apartments, New York Apartments, New York News

Late last month, the $51 million duplex penthouse at Trump Park Avenue quietly came off the market, a year after the Elliman broker Victoria Shtainer ...

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Manhattan "One-Bedroom" Apartment On Market For $29.5M

The New York Observer | Posted 08.13.2009 | New York

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What makes patrician investor Christopher H. Browne's $29.5 million duplex at 515 Park Avenue so mind-bogglingly awesome isn't the telephone closet in...

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New Leases In Manhattan Doorman Buildings Plunge 63%

The New York Observer | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 08.09.2009 | New York

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New rent stats suggest that doorman buildings are starting to go out of fashion for the masses as Manhattanites seek to cut back on expenses�"even i...

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Harlem's Real Estate Bubble Bursts

New York Times | CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY | Posted 08.08.2009 | New York

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Of all the New York City neighborhoods swept up in the real estate boom of the last decade, few became as hot as Harlem. It grew increasingly gentrifi...

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Madoff-Tainted Townhouse Sells For $9.75 Million

The New York Observer | Max Abelson | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York

Read More: Marisa Noel Brown, Bernard Madoff, New York Real Estate, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Madoff Noel, Madoff, New York, Noel Family, New York News

A fashionable Manhattan townhouse purchased by a director of the Fairfield Greenwich Group and his wife, the daughter of Greenwich's founder, has been...

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New York Real Estate: How to Spot A Good Deal

New York Times | ELIZABETH A. HARRIS | Posted 07.22.2009 | New York

Read More: Manhattan, Real Estate Market, New York Real Estate, Manhattan Apartments, Real Estate, New York, New York Real Estate Market, New York News

Many New York City apartments have had drastic price reductions in the last few months, as sellers chase after a cascading market. But a discount from...

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