CHARMED OBSOLESCENCE By Constance Rosenblum Published: April 1, 2010 in the New York Times MARIA BERMAN was hopelessly smitten with the working fireplace in her first New York apartment, a third-floor walk-up in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Michael Falco for The New York Times Fran Leadon’s place in Cobble Hill is lighted and aired by transoms. […]
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Townhouses for Sale! 129 Manhattan AvenuePRICE REDUCED: $2,290,000 Are you looking for townhouses for sale? This Upper West Side Townhouse is a buyer’s dream. This luminous four-story NYC brownstone for sale offers exceptional value for upscale living. Currently, a recently renovated owner’s duplex with a terrace and a garden, the upper two floors are floor-through […]
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9 West 70th Street After Collapse, Locksmith Asks $12 M.By: Max AbelsonPublished: September 8, 2009. the New York ObserverManhattan real estate is an extreme thing. One morning the entire facade of a vacant five-story Tribeca walk-up will crumble, and four months later that building’s owner will put his Central Park brownstone on the market for […]
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Friends, As the New York Times reported last week, my wife and I had success removing a supposed rent-control tenant from the parlour floor of our townhouse. Click on this link to see the article. As you know, I often extol the benefits of buying a townhouse that has rent-stabilized or rent-control tenants. The price […]
Continue reading →(Part Three of Three) “Now I will just mention just a word or two about Harlem. It’s a big place, and I started to do a survey there as well. I do six zip codes. This year, there was one closing for a house we sold for $2.575M. It was the highest in about, I […]
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