Tag Archives: real estate

Manhattan’s Coming New Skyline

The New York Daily News has published a recap of Manhattan’s insane boom in skyscraper construction. Embiggen the bottom image for a tally on the coming supertalls, several of which will eclipse the Empire State Building’s 1250 feet. The supertall in the center of the top image, 111 West 57th, will be the world’s skinniest skyscaper at 1350 feet tall …

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NEW YORK CITY: $165M Park Planned For Hudson River Piers In Chelsea

Via Gothamist: A crumbling old Hudson River pier once used by ocean liners like the Lusitania will be torn down and replaced by a 2.7 acre park on the water featuring rolling hills and an outdoor amphitheater. Mayor de Blasio is expected to reveal further details about the park at a press conference this morning, but the Hudson River Park …

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Video From Manhattan’s New Supertall

Via Mashable: The new 432 Park Avenue is the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere. It’s the first in a wave of new super-tall apartment buildings coming to New York’s skyline. Its top-story penthouse, which recently sold for around $95 million, boasts a view of the city that one would usually need a helicopter to behold. The notation at …

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Next Manhattan Supertall: One Vanderbilt

As I’ve noted in several recent posts, Manhattan is going through an unprecedented boom of new supertall skyscrapers, many of which are mixed-use hotel/retail/condo combos. New York YIMBY provides a look at One Vanderbilt, which will loom over Grand Central Terminal on Manhattan’s east side. Among New York’s existing supertalls, the 1,450-foot building will be closest to the Chrysler, which …

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More Details On Nordstrom Supertall

New York YIMBY has some new details about the planned Nordstrom tower, which will be one of the class of coming Manhattan skyscrapers that the press has dubbed “super-skinny supertalls.” An elevation profile gives a look inside the tower, and at its different components, which range from a Nordstrom at the base, to a hotel, and condominiums on the uppermost …

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NYC Luxury Condo To Rival Height Of WTC

Several skyscrapers now going up on the south end of Central Park in midtown will eclipse the height of the Empire State Building. Today New York YIMBY reveals a similar “super-luxury” condo tower planned for our billionaire overlords in the financial district. YIMBY has the reveal for 125 Greenwich Street, which will become Downtown’s tallest residential skyscraper; a tipster close …

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Zillow Buys Trulia In $3.5B Deal

Creating what is being characterized as an “online real estate juggernaut,” on Monday the realty site Zillow reached a deal to purchase Trulia, its chief competitor, in an all stock $3.5B merger. Under the terms of the deal, Zillow will pay 0.444 of one of its shares for each share of Trulia. Based on Friday’s closing prices, the takeover bid …

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Billionaires Could Buy These Cities

The Redfin Research Center has compared the median home prices in major US cities to the estimated wealth of well-known billionaires. Just how rich is Bill Gates? According to Forbes, he’s the world’s richest person and is worth $77.5 billion. But that kind of wealth is hard to wrap your head around, so let’s put it another way: Gates could …

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NEW YORK: Hamptons Home Of Late Gay Couple Sells For Record-Setting $145M

The Hamptons estate of a late gay couple sold this week for $145M, the highest price for a residential property in US history. But there’s an ugly story here. The massive estate was the dream home of Christopher H. Browne, the former managing director of the Tweedy, Browne Company investment firm – he died December 2009 at age 62 from …

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Key West’s Island House Is For Sale, Owner Jon Allen Hopes For Gay Buyer

As many of you learned several weeks ago, Key West’s famed Island House resort is for sale following the December death of Martin Kay, who owned the business with Jon Allen (above), his partner of 23 years. Knowing that I have made annual pilgrimages to the Island House for the last several years, I’ve been getting messages from JMG readers …

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NEW YORK CITY: De Blasio May Freeze Rents On Rent-Stabilized Apartment

While campaigning for mayor, Bill De Blasio regularly vowed to freeze the rents of New York City’s one million rent-stabilized apartments. When he first made the promise, howling teabaggers knuckle-walked to their Twitter accounts to shriek that De Blasio was an “avowed Marxist.” Gothamist reports that De Blasio appears to setting the stage to come through on that pledge. No …

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Sean Hannity To Sell Long Island Home

Just days after he declared that he was leaving New York because Gov. Cuomo doesn’t like “extreme conservatives,” Sean Hannity has put one of his Long Island mansions on the market for $3.6M. The gated 2.05-acre home comes with a pool, observation deck and stairs to the beach, says D’Agostino, who is co-listing the property with Joyce Mennella. “You can …

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More Trouble For GMHC

Last month the NYC-based Gay Men’s Health Crisis was in the news after executive director Marjorie Hill stepped down amid accusations of mismanagement. Today we learn that GMHC is breaking the lease on its fairly new headquarters and is on the hunt for a less expensive location. Matthew Katz reports at DNA Info: GMHC, which sources said spent millions to …

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Manhattan’s Roseland Ballroom To Close

The legendary Roseland Ballroom, home to the Saint-At-Large Black Party for more than two decades, will reportedly close in April. Via Billboard Magazine: Evolving from ballroom dancing in the ‘20s to popular music, Roseland has for years been a favored New York play for a wide range of bands from the early days of rock, through disco, grunge, modern rock, …

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NYC Approves Billionaires’ Tower

One of the proposed Manhattan super-skyscrapers that I mentioned last month has been approved by the city. At a comparative height of more than 100 floors, it will have only 100 apartments. Ever want to look down on the Empire State Building? How about from your apartment? In three years, well-heeled buyers will be able to do that from the …

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Interactive Age Map For NYC Buildings

JMG reader David points us to this nifty interactive map that reveals the construction date of New York City buildings. My Upper East Side building went up in 1910 and my super once explained that it was built as “overnight dorms” for the doctors at what is now Sloan-Kettering, which is down the street. According to the super, this was …

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Manhattan’s Coming Super-Skyscrapers

The astounding condo sales for the nearly completed One57 at the southern edge of Central Park has spurred the construction of three more super-skyscrapers, all of which will be even taller and will challenge national height records for residential buildings. Gizmodo has published a breakdown of the coming towers and the one in the center of the above image caught …

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“Luxury” Doomsday Bunker: $65,000

“A Southern California company is building luxury survivalist bunkers complete with wide-screen TVs, plumbing, and bunk-beds. They start at about $65 thousand dollars and that doesn’t include the cost of digging a big enough hole.”

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Trump Launches Site Attacking New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman

This weekend New York state Attorney General sued Donald Trump for $40M, claiming that his Trump University is a bait-and-switch scam. In response, Trump’s camp has already launched a website attacking Schneiderman. From the site: “98% of Trump University students rated the program ‘excellent’ while only 4% of New York State registered voters rated Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s performance as …

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FLORIDA: Condo Association Reverses Ban On Selling To Unmarried Couples

Earlier this month we learned that a condo association in Florida had instituted a new rule which stipulates that their units may only be sold to single people or to legally married “husband and wife” couples. News of the new rule made national headlines and now a lawyer for the condo association has written a new bylaw that reverses the …

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