It seemed that New Yorkers would wake on Nov. 5 – happily satiated by nearly two years of electoral saturation that ended just how most of them wanted – and return to their most fervent and familiar conversation topic: real estate.
Except that they didn’t.
"We don’t talk about real estate," said actor Paul Read More
Will Michael Carfagna ever transform Jackson Heights into the Park Slope of Queens?
"It’s going to take someone with deep pockets and with a vision," he said. "And if you find them, put them in touch with me."
Mr. Carfagna, perhaps best known for designing the "Billy Burg, Meet Jack Heights" and "More Read More
Leena Akhtar is fielding more questions about the Great Depression than ever.
As exhibits and archives manager at the Museum of American Finance, Ms. Akhtar curates the displays, such as frozen pork belly that illustrates "Commodities" or rococo cash registers that mesmerize the teenage girls. The mission of the Smithsonian-affiliated teaching museum is, in Read More
Welcome to the buyer’s market: Supply is up, demand is down, and prices are teetering. Brokers say buy now – after all, there are deals to be had! But what if you waited?
Here’s four areas (and one borough) where buyers would be fools to rush in now.
1. MANHATTAN
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Prospect Heights residents, along with elected officials and local community groups, testified before the Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday afternoon to support designating the neighborhood a historic district.
Advocates of landmark designation included Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Council Member Letitia James, Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, as well as representatives from Community Board 8, the Read More
Over the last few years, something like conventional wisdom cohered around northern Staten Island: New development and new arrivals would make it the New Williamsburg.
Art galleries, bars and cafés opened near the ferry to Manhattan. The first annual Rock the Harbor music festival took place last June. A graffiti artist scrawled "Williamsburg II" Read More
In his first public appearance in New York since July, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, arguably the nation’s most powerful person right now, talked about efforts to stem foreclosures and advocated closer ties with China as a means to strengthen the U.S. economy.
"While some see China as a threat that must be Read More
From the top of her building at 330 Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, Stephanie Eisenberg can see nearly all of two boroughs: the Williamsburg bridge, the United Nations, One Hanson Place, Greenpoint’s sewage treatment plant. But she prefers to look out over Brooklyn, with its church steeples and elevated subway tracks.
It’s lucky, because her Read More
On May 2, George Noia moved into a two-bedroom basement apartment on Long Island. His bedroom was small and windowless, and the kitchen held only a microwave and a hot plate. But of all the places he had seen, the one on Revilo Avenue in Shirley was the cheapest, at $130 a week.
Until Read More
When Gib Veconi moved to Prospect Heights in 1991, he and his neighbors spent years renovating brownstones. They started with garden-level apartments, and finished each successive story with rental income earned from the ground-floor tenants.
"No one could imagine tearing down a historic building," he said. "It was a question of economics." They Read More
