By Kim Velsey 11/14/12 3:04pm

Manhattan Transfers

Mr. Naumann's collection provides wonderful decoration for the walls.

Famed Old Masters Dealer Otto Naumann Buys Brand New Apartment in Yorkville

Art dealer Otto Naumann has spent decades staring at very old paint in his gallery on East 80th Street (he’s the man to call if you’re in the market for a 17th century Dutch masterpiece), but he was far less enthusiastic about staring at it on the walls of his townhouse on east 78th Street.

Townhouse ownership can be a drag, Mr. Naumann told The Observer when we reached him on the phone this morning. He couldn’t be happier to call a brand new four-bedroom co-op at 333 East 91st Street home. Read More

By Elise Knutsen 12/15/11 3:30pm

Manhattan Transfers

142 East End Avenue (StreetEasy)

Star Pathologist and O.J. Defense Witness Sells in Yorkville

Way back in 1995, a forensic pathologist took the stand of the O.J. Simpson trial. An expert witness for the defense, Michael Baden suggested that there had been two killers that fateful night, and O.J was ultimately let off. Mr. Baden has unloaded some serious baggage recently, but it isn’t an explanation for his dubious theory. No, in this case it comes in the form of a four-bedroom, four-bath townhouse in Yorkville.

Dr. Baden, who  briefly served as New York’s Chief Medical Examiner in the late 1970s, just sold a townhouse at 142 East End Avenue, according to city records. While he got O.J. off scot-free, the good doctor took a hit on the sale. Originally listed last May for $4.1 million, the blood-red brick townhouse just fetched $3.55 million. Read More

By Matt Chaban 12/13/10 6:15pm

Rebuilding

Sales Picking Up at Crane Collapse Condo

Numerous new condo buildings across the city have struggled throughout the recession, though none quite like the Azure on East 91st Street.

There are the typical problems, namely units that came on the market mere days before the collapse of Lehman Brothers and have sat there unsold ever since. But there is also the shadow Read More

By Staff 2/16/07 5:45pm

The Afternoon Wrap: Friday

  • Seven reasons for Queens’ impending triumph: Long Island City; more bang-for-buck; it’s not Jersey; the “tipping point”; Trader Joe’s; community blogs; and, most importantly, Ugly Betty. [OuterB]
  • Why should NYC ban traffic on Williamsburg’s main stretch? Because hipsters deserve their own esplanade, and because “preserving the small town quality of Williamsburg and allowing Read More

    • By Staff 7/18/06 5:15pm

    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