Look at 1 West End Avenue. Look how shiny it is. How tall. Contemplate the view. Savor it. If you're among the people slated to rent one of its 118 units of affordable housing, you won't be seeing it from this angle often, because you'll be entering through the back door.
David Kim, formerly of the Corcoran group, was sentenced to up to five years in prison this week for breaking into and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property from a $7.6 million Upper West Side townhouse shortly after he'd sold it to the happy couple living there.
According to the New York Daily News, police now believe Citigroup banker Shawn Miller may have slit his own throat after a night of meth-fueled partying with a man he'd recently met on BackPage.com.
Few things capture the grandness and blandness of modern day Manhattan better than the unveiling of the "World's tallest Holiday Inn."
A doctor who returned from West Africa last week is being tested for Ebola at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. Dr. Craig Spencer, who reportedly worked with Doctors Without Borders treating the deadly virus in Guinea, was rushed to the hospital earlier today after showing signs of a high fever and gastrointestinal…
The photographer Jay Maisel has owned the enormous property at 190 Bowery since 1966, and in the years since then—as the Bowery transformed from a grimy haven for the downtrodden to a still-kinda-grimy strip of museums and boutique hotels—it stood stoic, a graffiti-covered monument to The Way it Used to Be. Now, it's…
Getting doored—that is, having a driver or passenger open a car's door into you as you ride by—is a constant, looming threat for urban cyclists. The point-of-view video above, shot near New York City's Union Square, shows exactly what it's like when it happens, but the real drama comes after the crash.
At this point, no one should be surprised by the news that Manhattan is full of cavernous, bejeweled palaces, outfitted with fine linens and many pairs of fancy jeans, left to languish, empty, as their princely owners cavort overseas. Borrrrring. Tell me something I don't already know!
The latest Bloomberg analysis shows that Whole Foods "has become one of the cheaper chains for grocery shopping in Manhattan." Of course. Fuck.
The resale value of Manhattan condos rose to a record high last month, which is of no concern to the sort of people who might consider purchasing a Manhattan condo in the first place.
The late George Carlin—comedic evangelist for the profane, antagonist of the faithful, author of When Will Jesus Bring the Porkchops?—is getting a Manhattan street named after him, and thanks to a paperwork failure, it will run past the childhood Catholic parish he embarrassed so badly in life.
Although the rent on Manhattan apartments is far too expensive for you to afford, look on the bright side: the prospect of buying a Manhattan apartment is also a laughable dream that recedes ever farther from the realm of possibility (for you).
In the world of Manhattan real estate, you have to go big to make a splash. No longer will anyone be impressed by your meager $98 million apartment purchase. Nine-figure apartment prices are the new eight-figure apartment prices.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman's will was filed in a Manhattan Surrogate Court this morning, and his last wish was for his 10-year-old son to be raised somewhere with culture.
New York City real estate is too expensive for anyone. Manhattan is the most expensive portion of that. Logic tells us that no one, then, can afford Manhattan apartments. So who buys all these places then? International bazillionaires, of course.
A 36-story building at 500 West 43 St. in Manhattan caught fire this morning, as seen in the video above, which was taken around noon ET. Flames were seen shooting out of a 20th floor apartment. Twitter user @MickeyAtwal said that he and his family were stuck on the 26th floor because the elevators were not working…
Earlier this year, we advised you that New York City real estate has now become too expensive for anyone. We would like to issue a correction: New York City real estate is a bargain! It all depends on your perspective.
Two weeks ago The New York Observer, once a scrappy ankle-biter of gentrified Manhattan, published an utterly unaware column by 22-year-old New School grad Polly Mosendz about how she bought a $250,000 Manhattan apartment all by herself (and a parental nest egg of $50,000). The message was: you can do this, too!…
It was a classic American romance. A rich guy, a gorgeous woman, and the nagging persistence of condoms.
Manhattan residents have an odd tendency of thinking they are "better" than everyone else in their city, state, nation, and planet, just because they live in the borough "where it all happens," or some other falsehood that hasn't been true since Woody Allen's heyday. Sadly, they have a point.
