In each issue of NYO, The Observer’s new real estate and lifestyle supplement, we will spotlight a different neighborhood. And what better neighborhood to start with than the venerable, diverse, complicated, constantly evolving Upper East Side, where The Observer was born and first trained its sights. The Upper East Side encompasses a large swath of Manhattan—stretching Read More
The MTA has gotten an earful over the construction of the Second Avenue Subway, but now it wants more.
The agency is looking for locals to audition for a new audio segment of a multimedia exhibit on the history of the on-again, off-again East Side subway line. It will be the first piece of a new Community Information Center to be created in the neighborhood—an effort to sooth the jangled nerves of those who have had to deal with torn-up streets, closed-down shops and blown-out windows from underground explosions. We can expect some emotional performances, no doubt. Read More
Apartments along the Second Avenue subway may come with displaced rats, the din of jackhammers and unsightly piles of construction debris, but how about a discount?
The savings might be small, but apartment seekers are, as ever, hopeful, The Journal reports.
The median sale price for condos and co-ops along the Second Avenue construction zone declined 8 percent between 2007 and 2011, (it’s now $650,000), Read More
In addition to all the problems—construction noise, shaky buildings, shuttered stores—that the Second Avenue Subway is causing the city, one 14-block stretch of Second Avenue between East 87th and East 101st streets might now be costing an additional $2 million per block. In personal injury lawsuits.
And this is just phase one. Read More
