By Michael Calderone 2/20/06 12:00am

New Townhouse Standard: $20M

Even in the Upper East Side real-estate market, where already-astronomical prices continue to climb each year, there are standouts.

And this coming year, one new group of them is being closely watched over closed-circuit TV in Manhattan’s real-estate star-chamber: the 15 Upper East Side townhouses presently on the market for more than $20 million. Read More

By Michael Calderone 10/24/05 12:00am

Big Euro Machers Will Crash Plaza: Ritzy Pied-à-Terres

The entrance to the Plaza Hotel is now completely stockaded with chain-link fencing and plywood, the suited doormen replaced with grubby porters ushering construction and demolition workers—and dumpsters—in and out of its fabled and much-filmed front door. Even the somewhat ridiculous (if obligatory) row of flags has been plucked from above the hotel’s famous arcade. Read More