Four Washington Heights Apartment Buildings Up for Grabs

Four apartment buildings in Washington Heights with 87 apartments total have gone on the sales market for an asking price of $11.25 million. The sellers have owned the five-story buildings at 575-587 West 177th Street for over 20 years, according to a broker with Marcus & Millichap, the firm handling the sale.

Is it any Read More

Washington Heights Co-ops Going Cheap–$190,000 Each!

Discount sale in Washington Heights!

Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services announced today that they have the exclusive listing for what they are dubbing the “Washington Heights Co-op Package.” The package consists of 84 co-op apartments in five walk-up buildings.

The big news here is the price tag: $16 million for Read More

Manhattan Rental Market Not as Tough as They Say

You wouldn’t wish it on your worst enemy. Yet it’s something that has to be done many times a month in Manhattan: the hunt for an apartment to rent.

But the hunt’s no worse here than in L.A. or even Boston. Really.

It just seems that way because of the grim news often batted around Read More

Manhattan Rental Market Not as Tough as They Say

You wouldn’t wish it on your worst enemy. Yet it’s something that has to be done many times a month in Manhattan: the hunt for an apartment to rent.

But the hunt’s no worse here than in L.A. or even Boston. Really.

It just seems that way because of the grim news often Read More

Spitzer on Toohey

Before leaving a rally in Washington Heights yesterday, Eliot Spitzer insisted that there was “no cover up” by his campaign over the drunk driving arrest of his close campaign advisor Ryan Toohey.

“We have addressed it,” said Mr. Spitzer. “We didn’t know about it, we didn’t know about it until two nights ago.” Read More

Prisoner of Atlantic Avenue

The densest census tract in the country is located in West Harlem, where a 1,190-unit former Mitchell-Lama building stands surrounded by numerous tenements (below). The two-block area has, according to the 2000 Census, a density equivalent to 229,713 inhabitants per square mile.


3333 Broadway, between 133rd and 135th Sts., as seen from Google Read More

Bill Clinton in Washington Heights (Update)

Today, Bill Clinton will be attending the groundbreaking for New York-Presbyterian Hospital/ Columbia’s new heart center in Washington Heights.

The Pei Cobb Freed-designed facility will measure 142,000 square feet. The heart center is getting off the ground with the help of a generous $50 million donation from the Vivian and Seymour Milstein Read More

Bill Clinton, MD

During his days in the Oval Office, Bill Clinton would have been an unlikely poster-child for healthy heart habits.

But earlier today, the reformed donut-hound and fast-foodie-in chief trekked up to the airy reaches of Washington Heights to deliver a talk on cardiac health — and to help celebrate the groundbreaking for Read More

Eliot Against the Stadium, After All

Eliot Spitzer kept out of the West Side Stadium fight last year, telling reporters he couldn’t talk about it because his office might wind up litigating.

But at a breakfast up in Washington Heights this morning, he broke his silence:

“I didn’t think it made a lot of financial sense to give a Read More