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Sales have begun at 20 West 15th Street, a slender ground-up condominium located at the nexus of Greenwich Village and the Flatiron District. A boutique hotel was once planned for this vibrant area; but in a statement about the condo his firm developed instead, Aksel America founder and managing ...
Co-ops have dominated New York City housing since the early 20th century, and they still account for about half of Manhattan closings. But the case for the co-op is being tested. Condos have pulled ahead on amenities, aging co-op buildings face rising facade and Local Law 97 costs, and this summe...
On the week ending October 2, 2026, 189 residential apartment sales were recorded in Manhattan. This represented a week-over-week drop of over one-third in the number of sales logged, and reflects deals that took place as contract signings started to slow earlier this summer. However, as late-rec...
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In the first quarter of 2026, Manhattan’s apartment contracts totaled $6,906,075,016 in ask volume across over 2,500 deals, with the average asking price coming in at $2.681M and an average of $1,709 per square foot. The buildings that accounted for the most activity tend to follow a familiar pa...
Earlier this week, CNBC reported that mortgage rates increased for the sixth straight week to 7.3 percent, the highest level since November 2023. This came on the heels of a Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group report that found that the supply of entry-level condos in Manhattan and certain parts of...
From September 29 - October 4, 2026, 187 residential contracts were signed in Manhattan, showing a 45 percent week over week rebound, and only down 11 percent from the same week in 2025. These included 32 Manhattan apartments and townhouses priced $3.9 million and up, not to mention four asking o...
From old walk-ups to luxury high-rises, pests are a problem in New York City, with tens of thousands of complaints made and inspected annually. But not all pest problems are alike.
With all the ado about city initiatives that threaten to take away street parking spaces and reduce car traffic lanes, it can be easy to forget that New York City streets weren't always filled with cars. Before the automobile was invented, they were filled with horse-drawn carriages. At this time...
OHNY Weekend is your annual reminder that New York is basically one giant backstage pass. This year’s lineup opens doors to places you’d normally never see, from Roy Lichtenstein’s former studio and a 1929 Bronx movie palace to an active subway construction site, hidden Rockefeller Center gardens...
This week, art gets personal, political, architectural, and a little weird. There’s a conversation with a rising fiber-art star whose work was one of the hits of the Armory Show, Arthur Jafa taking over two floors of the New Museum, and the artistic marriage of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock get...
There is an air of uncertainty around the economy, but a bright spot may be found in New York. Governor Hochul's office recently announced that, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis, New York State had the fastest growing economy in the nation in the second q...
The Upper East Side has long been associated with stately prewar apartment houses, Park and Fifth Avenue addresses, and some of New York City's most established residential streets. But the neighborhood may be entering an important new phase. Gothamist found that the Upper East Side has added on...
From September 22-28, 2026, about 250 condos, co-ops, condops, and townhouses in core New York City neighborhoods experienced price reductions, a figure that held relatively steady week over week. These were logged shortly before a judge on Staten Island ruled that homeowners who tax records dete...
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