Manhattan Transfers

The Ackerman Institute's new home?

Ack! The Ackerman Institute, an Uptown Stalwart, Buys Downtown

Change can be therapeutic: seeking a different perspective, simplifying one’s life, moving to a new part of town.

The Ackerman Institute for the Family‘s impending move isn’t really a happy occasion. The famed family and couples therapy center needed to learn how to live within more modest means after it lost $3.3 million in Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. But we certainly hope that the Institute can move past its former financial traumas and embrace the life that it is living now. A life that will, by the looks of it, be lived downtown in the Flatiron District. Read More