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Cranky Old Neighbor Really Hates 40 Bond Street

Here we thought 40 Bond Street was one of the greatest building of the past generation. (Maybe that’s not saying much, since this is New York.) But this riotous video from Curbed shows that opinions are far less uniform than the lofty windows on the Herzog & de Meuron-designed, Ian Schrager-built condo project in Noho. The highlight is clearly the angry neighbor who calls the place “a piece of shit” and “Frank Lloyd Wrong.” Read More

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Drawn Ceaselessly Onto Bond Street

What’s an eponymous store to do? Bond No. 9 was looking for a headquarters, but felt, well, bonded to its namesake street.

“They looked on Broadway, they looked on Bleecker,” Prudential Douglas Elliman‘s Faith Hope Consolo told The Observer, but the tenant landed instead in a classic old-world showroom and corporate event space at 42 Read More