By Staff 3/20/07 5:35pm

The Afternoon Wrap: Tuesday

  • The car parking at Soho’s 123 Baxter is “hidden from view and lacks human operators.” (Lasers steer the cars into spots, or something like that.) Better yet, it’s now open to the public instead of the owners of the 24 condo units. [Metropolis]
  • The genius firm Architectural Artifacts is selling off (plus Read More

    • By Staff 3/02/07 6:12pm

    The Afternoon Wrap: Friday

  • Ian Schrager‘s old friend Philippe Starck is designing a 207-unit condo on the un-hip stretch of East 23rd Street between First and Second Avenue. And the place will be called Gramercy–even though Starck’s condo isn’t quite so close to the famous park. [Real Deal]
  • Thanks to the picture-perfect Brooklyn brownstones, the “burgeoning Read More

    • By Staff 2/27/07 5:55pm

    The Afternoon Wrap: Tuesday

  • Uptown is getting a leafy, “high-end” new condo, and it happens to have $100 million worth of affordable housing. Avalon Morningside Park broke ground this month at 110th Street and Morningside Drive. [Multi-Housing News]
  • What do you call it when gorgeous works of graffiti–an art form based upon vandalism–becomes the victim of a Read More

    • By Staff 2/13/07 5:25pm

    The Afternoon Wrap: Tuesday

  • Catastrophe in West Soho! Moondance Diner is being wiped away to make room for–here it comes–luxury condos. “There are not going to be any more diners,” says traitorous owner Sunil “Sunny” Sharma (one of the condo’s co-developers). [NY Sun, via Gothamist]
  • Is the newly-renovated $320,000 prewar co-op at 478 West 158th Street the Read More

    • By Staff 2/05/07 5:37pm

    The Afternoon Wrap: Monday

  • Flip of the Week: Courteney and David Cox Arquette bought their house in 2001 for $10 million, and have now put it on the market for $33,500,000. Apparently, Californians will pay anything for four bedrooms that belonged to two semi-stars. [WSJ]
  • Prospect Park will have a new $25 million skating rink in three Read More

    • By Staff 2/02/07 5:44pm

    The Afternoon Wrap: Friday

  • Brooklyn Rally of the Weekend: Christine Quinn and “over 1,000 tenants” will protest the impending billion-plus-dollar sale of Starrett City. What do they want? Preservation of affordable housing! When do they want it? This weekend (and, hopefully, beyond). [The Real Deal]
  • The MTA is over a decade behind when it comes to the Read More

    • By Staff 1/29/07 4:59pm

    The Afternoon Wrap: Monday

  • This weekend’s Times expose on evil rental agents [above] is a reminder that Manhattan real estate is “akin to the X-Files,” and that brokers may or may not be “soulless beasts who [don't] deserve any consideration.” [Property Grunt]
  • South Harlem has changed “for good,” but not necessarily for better. Unless you like Read More

    • By Chris Shott 1/29/07 12:00am

    Blog Ghetto

    “Didn’t I see you at another blogger party recently? Or did I dream it?” asked Lindsay Robertson, an editor for the Comedy Central network’s Insider blog.

    She was speaking to a fellow online scribe standing by the bar one recent Friday night at White Rabbit on East Houston Street. Her sense of déjà vu was Read More

    By Staff 1/22/07 4:27pm

    The Afternoon Wrap: Monday

  • Developer Herb Miller listed his Washington, D.C., home last spring for $28 million–the highest asking price in our nation’s fair capital–and now he’s sold the place. Is that as good as the Washingtonians can do? Manhattan can beat $28 million with its left arm tied behind its back. [WSJ]
  • London is entirely Read More