Neighborhoods of Manhattan
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008I love the NYC subway system. You pay one fare to go anywhere in the city, unlike Philadelphia or London (the only other cities whose public transportation I know about) which charges you based on how long you ride.
Here’s a fascinating story by Andy Newman in the Aug 22, 2008 New York Times called The […]
Dowtown’s the Place to Be
Sunday, August 24th, 2008This is from The Sun on Aug 7, 2007: First Time Renters are leaving Uptown in Droves by Candaces Taylor
I’ve extracted the best parts for you but you can read the full story by clicking here. And of course, RDNY.com has listings for all the buildings mentioned in the article.
Move over, Normandie Court. The new […]
Manhattan: Don’t Light Up on Gay Street
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008(photo from the realestsblogspot.com)
Gay Street in Greenwich Village is the city’s shortest street — it’s one block long and kind of private, snug between Christopher St and Waverly Place. Little did I know until I read the July 1, 2008 New York Times that Gay Street is the place to go to build up an […]
Gay Pride Week in New York
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008Kevin, my co-worker in the RDNY.com Listings Dept, watches NY1 TV all the time and saw a TV report today (June 25, 2008) that said that Brooklyn has the city’s largest gay community and the 4th largest in the whole country.
This is from the NY1 website:
According to the borough president’s office [Marty Markowitz], Brooklyn now […]
Manhattan: There Goes the Neighborhood
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008McMansions have come to Manhattan.
Alistair and Catherine Economakis and their two children need a 5 story apartment building (which had 15 rent-stabilized apartments when they bought the building) in order to live comfortably in Manhattan. Click here to see the diagram in full. The photo is by Ruby Washington and the illustration is by Frank […]
Update: Mount Vernon Everywhere
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Mark, my co-worker in the Listings Dept at RDNY.com, gave me the rest of the story about Manhattan’s Mount Vernon. The building was originally constructed in 1799 as a carriage house for a 23-acre estate named Mount Vernon in honor of the home of the Father of Our Country. In 1826 and the carriage house […]
Inwood: There Are No Secrets on the Internet
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Mark (the fellow who still hasn’t explained to me what Mount Vernon is doing in the Upper East Side) sent me a link to another old house in Manhattan: The Dyckman Farm House in Inwood. Here’s what the house looks like on their website:
Wow. It looks like it’s on a cliff, looming high above Inwood. […]
Manhattan: Good Ribbin’ at Madison Square Park
Monday, June 9th, 2008Alyssa, my co-worker at RDNY.com’s Listings Dept, came into work today a very happy girl. She spent Saturday and Sunday at the Big Apple BBQ Block Party at Madison Square Park where she totally indulged herself, BBQ-wise. I’ve never met anyone get as excited about grilled meat as Alyssa does.
Alyssa swore she could smell the […]
Manhattan: Home on the Grange
Saturday, June 7th, 2008Alexander Hamilton’s country house, called The Grange, is moving again. It was built in 1802 on what became West 143 St, moved in 1889 to West 141 St, and is currently (Saturday, June 7) rolling down Convent Avenue to its new site at the northwest corner of St. Nicholas Park. I wanted to see this […]
Manhattan Rental Stats
Saturday, May 24th, 2008I haven’t been inspired lately to add to this blog. Things have been quiet on the rental front, until I saw this eye-catching graph in the New York Observer:
And here’s more not so good news from the article by Tom Acitelli:
It’s on again: the spring hunt for Manhattan apartments, and, according to the numbers, this […]
Bastille Day Will Never Be The Same
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008You know how your epidermis theoretically replaces itself every 7 years? Well, I think Manhattan replaces itself every 20 years. First the Market Diner is being renovated into something fancy with no parking lot, then Danceteria closed to turn into luxury condos, and now Florent is closing. What’s next? Pyramid? The 80s are disappearing right […]
Manhattan: CBGB is Gone, and so is Punk
Sunday, April 27th, 2008I missed the whole NYC punk scene. Actually, I didn’t know it was an American movement — I though it was from England, what with the Souixie Soiux, the Clash and the Sex Pistols — and I was surprised when I heard about CBGBs for the first time.
By the time I was hanging in the […]
My New Hero: Michael Perlman
Saturday, April 26th, 2008I think the New York Observer has the most fun info about what’s happening real estate-wise of any news source in the city. I’m not a buyer so I ignore most of the sales news, but I enjoy the stories about what else is happening. The April 28, 2008 edition has a story about a […]