If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “wouldn’t it be cool if they could take all the coolest aspects of those Korean superspas out in Queens and make me a house?”
No?
Well, it’s admittedly a very weird thought, but someone apparently had it, and they even followed up on it in the West Village. Read More
Now here is a home that would provide the perfect setting for you to tell those filthy hippies down at “Occupy Wall Street” to eat some cake.
Who else but Sotheby’s could have wrangled this $18 million, 3 bedroom, 4 and 2-half bath, duplex at 770 Park Avenue ? Read More
New York City is home to an almost endless plethora of unique and breathtaking views, from the skyscraper-laden length of Manhattan island, to the one and only Statue of Liberty and the harbor over which she watches welcomingly, and the watery quasi-tunnel of love created by the arches of iconic bridges like the Brooklyn, Williamsburg and 59th Street.
Just get up to a roof in any part of this grand ole’ town and look around! Aren’t you just dizzy from the majesty?
Dizzy enough to let Corcoran talk you into spending almost $15.75 million on a view of Northern Queens and the city’s largest mental hospital? Read More
Apparently Tony Stark doesn’t like living so close to the High Line.
We’re not entirely sure who is selling this 3 bed, 3 bath loft at the uber-modern, uber- “New Chelsea” development HL23, but Brown Harris Stevens is clearly dealing with the alter ego of some super hero, or at least a set designer for modern superhero movies. Read More
Have you ever dreamed—at the end of the daily grind that is your Gotham-paced, workaday life—of returning to your very own Floridian, retirement community apartment?
Have you yearned for a home that conjures the laissez faire, laugh-track-accompanied lifestyle lived by The Golden Girls or Jerry’s parents on Seinfeld, but have been unable to rectify the time and cost of air travel and airfare with the rest of your lifestyle?
Well, if you make at least $360,000 a year in the course of that working life, we might have just stumbled upon your dream come true… Read More
This East 38th Street townhouse has a personality disorder, it seems to “be all Washington Irving” on the outside and “all Bret Easton Ellis” indoors.
So, basically, if you like to mask a great place to do blow with some stunning Dutch Revival detail… Congratulations! You’re home.
Oh wait, you do have $14 million, right? Read More
The Observer’s pretty sure you can’t keep the art (because if any one of those paintings is an original, the asking price would be stratospherically higher), but, if you’re an “International Businessman” whose “corporate interests” seem to always end up being “disrupted” by the likes of British spies in tuxedoes, Prudential Douglas Elliman may have just found you the ideal NYC “pied a terre.” Read More
Ever wonder how Mayor Bloomberg decorates his homes? Well, until yesterday afternoon, shots of his lavish homes were hiding in plain sight on the website of his personal decorator, Jamie Drake.
Although Mayor Bloomberg takes great pains to cultivate a down-to-earth image, his home furnishings tell a much different tale. Intrepid decor reporters at the Read More
We at The Observer pride ourselves on being able to tag these virtual house tours with a little witticism, which we think pokes fun at the property itself, and thus gives depth to its role in the circus-like New York City real estate scene. That said, we are finding ourselves at a loss for a snarky bon mot while taking in this seemingly flawless Fort Greene listing from Prudential Douglas Elliman.
Then again, we are also fans of having equity, so here goes nothin’… Read More
CORE has a listing for five-bed, five-bath, 5,100-square-foot condo, with luxurious accents of a very certain taste, that looms above downtown Brooklyn from a decidedly un-luxurious location.
But if you love the idea of living in downtown Brooklyn while peering down on it imperiously from above, but don’t like a lot of tempered glass in your interior design or living at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge, we’ve got some bad news… Read More
