Country singer Kellie Pickler is a bit of a skirt chaser.
“I think it’s sexy,” the platinum blond 22-year-old former American Idol contestant told the Daily Transom. “I think it’s great. Real men wear kilts!”
Ladies, not so much! Ms. Pickler wore a non-plaid Gwen Russell-designed red gown to the Read More
Manhattan doormen, ably trained as they are in the art of regulating traffic in and out of the city’s abodes, might want to start battening down the hatches: The economy … is … coming. In these troubled economic times, some residential building workers, who are members of the union 32BJ, are finding their services superfluous Read More
On a recent Wednesday night, Antonio Palumbo, a 27-year-old IT manager at Blue Man Productions, and his 25-year-old fiancé, Joanna Cambareri, a digital sales associate at People.com, were sitting in an Upper East Side Starbucks, talking about their decision to buy an apartment in Manhattan, and explaining why they were looking to buy in a Read More
New theory: As the stock market continues to go down, down, down, Manhattan’s apartment vacancy rate will go up, up, up. Back in August, before Lehman Brothers imploded, the vacancy rate was 1.39 percent in Manhattan, according to statistics from Citi Habitats. Their February report, available here (PDF), indicates a 2.46 percent vacancy rate, Read More
Location: When did you start tracking foreclosure data at PropertyShark?
Mr. Staniford: We started tracking foreclosures since the beginning of the company, which was about six years ago. It really started out at a very low level; we actually had one person going down to the Brooklyn auctions. Once we started Read More
Pop! That’s the implosion of New York’s seemingly indestructible hotel industry, which this January had one of its worst months of the past six years.
According to Smith Travel Research, an industry research firm based in Nashville, Tenn., the citywide occupancy rate in January was 59.5 percent, an annual decrease of Read More
The Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in Fin-De-Siècle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror
By John Merriman
Houghton Mifflin, 272 pages, $26
Long before suicide bombers were blowing people to bits in London, Sri Lanka, Israel and Iraq, extremists in Western Europe and North America displayed the same sort of callous disregard for the Read More
A prospective tenant in Manhattan recently included her unemployment payments as financial ballast on her rental application. Instead of being mocked or disregarded, the application was accepted, according to Marc Lewis, whose Century 21 NY Metro represents the landlord.
Oh, my, how times have changed.
Anecdotes abound about ready-to-negotiate landlords and falling rents. Read More
Well, so much for the seasonal peaks and valleys in the real estate market. According to the Real Estate Group New York’s January Manhattan rental market report (PDF), released today, month-to-month average rents fell for studios, one-bedroom apartments and two-bedroom apartments, in both doorman and non-doorman buildings. It was a clean sweep, and one Read More
When the Center for an Urban Future, an urban policy think tank, released a report last week documenting in great detail the continued misfortunes of the middle class in New York City, many people responded with little more than a faint raising of the eyebrows and a disaffected shrug of the shoulders, as if to Read More
