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By Michael Ewing 4/30/12 5:35pm

Back from the dead

Wavy brick walls!

Wavy Brick Mulberry House Back to Life on Houston Street

One of the prettiest zombies of the real estate collapse is finally coming back to life. The condo tower at 290 Mulberry Street has been nearly finished for years now, but the developer fell into trouble, the building bounced around a bit, and only now is it coming back on the market, as a rental.

Karass Development picked up the project, and with the help of Citi Habitats broker Lucie Holt, it has been rebranded as Mulberry House, a rental building that has just come on the market. Read More

By Michael Ewing 4/27/12 1:01pm

Kings of Queens

Look, it's 30-30! (Courtesy of the Real Deal)

LIC Gets Schooled! Industrial Building Becoming Commercial Space, University on the Horizon

It’s Queens’ time to shine!

Long Island City was once a barren post-industrial wasteland, but recent efforts are shifting the borough into a plausible location to live. Jet Blue flew its headquarters over two years ago and Queens Plaza is booming with real estate, but is it really New York if you aren’t living next to some college students? Read More

By Michael Ewing 4/24/12 5:26pm

silk stockings

14A? Why not 14PH? (Courtesy of Curbed)

Roger Sterling Lives In a Black Hole on the Upper East Side

It’s pretty clear Roger Sterling is an Upper East Side kind of guy. He’s old, has white hair, wears three piece suits and has more money than most can imagine. And yet it took five seasons for his tony home to come up—perhaps because he prefers the inside of a hotel room with one of his beaus. According to Sunday’s episode Roger Sterling wrote that he lives at 31 East 66th Street #14A, the eagle-eyed editors of Curbed notice. Read More

By Michael Ewing 4/20/12 6:38pm

Wheels of Change

The field house will occupy this site! (Courtesy of the New York Times)

Brooklyn Bicyclists Get A Boost

Brooklyn bikers received a treat to the tune of $40 million dollars!

Joshua Rechnitz, a cyclist and the grandson of New York philanthropists, pledged a $40 million dollar gift to the city to build a field house in the Brooklyn Bridge Park, The New York Times reported. Read More

By Michael Ewing 4/20/12 6:08pm

Billyburg Battles

How inconvenient. (Courtesy of Flickr/Robert S. Donovan)

Churchgoers, Brunch Crowd Clash Over Williamsburg Sidewalks

It’s bad enough to wake up early for church on Sunday without having to trek through an endless sea of slovenly, hungover hipsters waiting for brunch.

Williamsburg’s churchgoers are so sick of it that they have taken their gripes to Brooklyn Community Board 1, which plans to enforce a city law that bars outdoor sidewalk restaurants from operating before noon on Sunday, the New York Post reports. Read More

By Michael Ewing 4/20/12 1:30pm

Amenities

Tech-Savvy MiMA Tower! (Courtesy of Streeteasy)

Can’t Figure Out How To Plug Your Computer In? There’s A Concierge For That

At the same time that some apartment buildings are emphasizing those weird pre-technological places called libraries, others are boosting up their tech teams to plug you in when you move in.

Related, the real estate developers behind MiMA and One MiMA Tower, has implemented a technology concierge service that will handle tasks from hanging televisions to troubleshooting a home office network, The New York Times reports. Read More

By Michael Ewing 4/17/12 12:52pm

Fame-mosque

It was a rather well-designed building! (Courtesy of CBS)

Fireman Drops Lawsuit Against Ground Zero ‘Mosque’

If you thought the Ground Zero “mosque” struggle ended when the courts struck down a lawsuit against the cultural center last July, you are a little off. A notice of appeal was later filed, but that was finally withdrawn last Friday, according to The Real Deal.

Timothy Brown, a retired New York City firefighter, initially filed the suit back in October 2010 to the New York State Supreme Court. Read More