On Monday, the East Hampton Star reports, prosecutors said that Sean Ludwick, the Manhattan real estate developer charged with vehicular homicide in the Hamptons death of his friend Paul Hansen, drunkenly threw Hansen’s belongings into the woods after dumping his body on the side of the road.
New York City luxury building owners are not paying their employees what they’re supposed to be paying them. They might change their ways, if only the city gave them any indication at all that the rules are being enforced.
A grand jury indicted New York City real estate developer Sean Ludwick last week on 13 criminal charges, including vehicular homicide, manslaughter, and drunken driving in a fatal accident. Cumulatively, Ludwick faces up to 32 years in prison.
So you want to live in New York City.
More than 181,000 people applied for 14 affordable apartments in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Time to start tweaking the master plan.
Tenants-rights activist and former mayoral, gubernatorial, and (briefly) presidential candidate Jimmy McMillan, best known for his affiliation with the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, which he founded, announced today his retirement from politics.
Now available for rent in Manhattan: a 360-square-foot “micro-apartment” for $2,750 a month. And in Brooklyn, “5 Great Neighborhoods Where You Can Find a One-Bedroom Under $2,600.” I love this town!
The latest report on New York City real estate prices, out today: Manhattan and Brooklyn home prices and rents are at all-time highs and rising, and the market is saturated with expensive luxury homes while anything affordable sells faster than ever. You could leave, but where would you go?
Developer Nile Niami, currently building a spec house in Bel Air with a price tag of $500 million, rejects neighbors’ accusations of overkill. “‘Why would you not need four swimming pools?’ says Mr. Niami.”
Anything that can be pitched as a startup acquires an undeserved sheen. It’s not a water bottle; it’s a hydration system. This isn’t an overpriced group home from hell; it’s a Brooklyn co-living space.
An NYPD officer was indicted this afternoon for allegedly falsifying the deed on a Bed-Stuy townhouse, swiping it from its rightful owner and placing it under her own name.
In 2009, developer Sharif El-Gamal’s Soho Properties purchased the lot at 45 Park place in lower Manhattan for $4.85 million. The next year, he proposed to build a 15-story Islamic cultural center—two blocks north of where the former World Trade Center once stood—which came to be known as the “Ground Zero Mosque.” The…
Two members of the nonprofit Brooklyn Bridge Park board—which voted to approve the construction of a controversial view-blocking luxury condo building in the park—“were among the first to buy condos” in the building, DNAinfo reports.
A real estate website marketing expensive luxury condos in Fort Greene, Brooklyn boasts that former neighborhood residents “include household names like Malcolm X.” In fact Malcolm X never lived in Brooklyn, though he did love gentrification.
A developer is planning to build Brooklyn’s first 1,000-foot condo tower, which could be nearly as tall as the Empire State Building, and will sell fabulously expensive apartments to all the billionaires who want to live in Downtown Brooklyn next to a bunch of Modell’s. http://gawker.com/where-is-the-n…
New York City, a crowded land sorely in need of housing, is in the midst of its “biggest building boom in a generation,” issuing new residential building permits at a pace not seen for more than 50 years. Soon there could be tens of thousands of new apartments that you can’t afford.
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The city of New York granted $66 million in tax breaks to the developers of the One57 luxury condo tower, where billionaires inhabit apartments costing up to $100 million apiece. This is known as “a ripoff,” or, if you like, “economic development.” http://gawker.com/people-with-25…
Are you a multi-millionaire real estate developer looking for a large mixed-use property that is chic yet gritty, gritty yet stylish, stylish yet authentic, authentic yet upscale, upscale yet downtown, downtown yet as expensive as anything uptown, as expensive as anything uptown yet appealingly sketchy-looking? I’ve…
Across America, rents are higher than ever, and they show no sign of slowing their climb. With housing shortages everywhere, owning a home seems like an impossible dream. Or is it?
New research from the ACLU is shedding light on just how badly black Americans were economically damaged by the Great Recession of 2008. The racial differences in loss are extremely stark.
