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The Year REBNY Tried to Get Cool

 And the real power players left early. By Kim Velsey and Clio Chang
  1. Meet Eric Adams’s Other Brooklyn Apartment An unofficial tour of the Prospect Heights co-op he forgot he still owned.
    By Clio Chang
  2. The Austin Broker With a Robust Country-Club Client Base “A colleague sends me some stats from the Census Bureau saying that Austin’s population is increasing by 146 people every day. Wowza!”
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  3. Julia Haart’s $65 Million Penthouse Is Politically Neutral Also it’s technically not her apartment.
    By Clio Chang
  4. Rent-Stabilized Apartments Are About to Get More Expensive The Rent Guidelines Board voted, tenants booed, landlords cleaned up.
    By Clio Chang
  5. Billionaires Think a Recession Will Force You Back Into the Office Stephen Ross and friends smell worker desperation in the water.
    By Clio Chang
  6. What Landlords Privately Think About the Real-Estate Boom “Why shouldn’t I charge what I can charge? Doesn’t that sound nasty, though?”
    By Kim Velsey
  7. For Rent: Two-Bedroom, Great Light, and a Tenant With COVID Who is about to show you the apartment.
    By Clio Chang
  8. The 3-Day Return to Office Is, So Far, a Dud Hybrid work is supposed to be the future of the office. Except a lot of people just don’t like it.
    By Kim Velsey
  9. Checking In With the Real-Estate Brokers Who Stormed the Capitol And their current listings, from Chicago’s Trump Tower to a Colorado car wash franchise.
    By Bridget Read
  10. Why Do the Men of SNL Live in Such Horrifying Apartments? Live from New York … wow, this is kind of a dump, huh?
    By Rebecca Alter
  11. What Is Going On With This Architect and the Buildings He Fake-Approved? The strange case of Warren L. Schiffman and the Marx Development Group.
    By Clio Chang
  12. The Hamptons Broker Whose Clients Think $60,000 a Month is a Great Deal “My colleague has this funny line that I thought was fitting here: ‘This is the Hamptons, honey. We can disappoint you at any price point.’”
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  13. 49 Days to Find a Not-Horrible Apartment “Even if you could imagine this unit being clean, it still would have a general ambiance I can only describe as serial-killer-y.”
    By Emily Gould
  14. Kelly Killoren Bensimon Assesses Jeffrey Epstein’s Island “Oh my gosh, the real Scary Island.”
    By Clio Chang
  15. The Williamsburg Hotel’s Drawn-Out, Chaotic Bankruptcy Process “I do have some concern that he’ll do something really stupid here.”
    By Clio Chang
  16. The 11-Bedroom Mansion Your Silent Workday Bought Slack founder finds a happy, $32 million home in Southampton.
    By Clio Chang
  17. A Long, Strange Year of Rent Relief It was a tedious, administrative nightmare. It also (mostly) worked.
    By Clio Chang
  18. The Landlords Embarrassed to Be Called Landlords “I cringe when I hear it, and when I say it.”
    By Bridget Read
  19. WeWork Thinks It’s a Good Time to Be WeWork The company sees itself thriving as return-to-office plans flop.
    By Clio Chang
  20. 60 Days to Find a Not-Horrible Apartment for a Family of 4 The first installment of Emily Gould’s search for a two-bedroom.
    By Emily Gould
  21. An Anti-Airbnb Activist Rented Her House on Airbnb And the city collectively lost its mind.
    By Clio Chang
  22. Cuck Money Is the New Key Money Get ready to raise your own rent.
    By Bridget Read
  23. The Ugliest Divorce in Manhattan Real Estate HFZ’s luxury developers staked their futures on Bjarke Ingels’s High Line debut and lost everything.
    By James D. Walsh
  24. Landlords Can Now Screen Your Pet’s ‘Credit Score’ And charge you accordingly.
    By Clio Chang
  25. Japanese Company Realizes the American Dream, Buys Single-Family Homes If only everyone else could too.
    By Kim Velsey
  26. All Split Up and Nowhere to Go Are pandemic breakups behind the city’s insane one-bedroom shortage?
    By Bridget Read
  27. What’s Wrong With Steve Roth’s $21 Million Montauk Beach House? The developer behind one of Manhattan’s most successful condos can’t find a taker for his own Hamptons place.
    By Kim Velsey
  28. Housing Court Is Breaking Watching the quiet chaos unfold in a Queens courtroom.
    By Bridget Read
  29. More Luxury Developments Are Apparently Falling Apart We are spotting a trend.
    By Clio Chang
  30. The Townhouse That Olivier Sarkozy and Mary-Kate Olsen Never Moved Into Is Back The astounding ballroom with 22-foot coffered ceilings remains intact.
    By Jenny Xie
  31. We Unearthed 10 Actually Excellent Rentals in NYC Right Now This week’s finds includes a Boerum Hill two-bedroom with multiple skylights and a 700-square-foot Fort Greene apartment asking $2,600.
    By Jenny Xie
  32. A $335,000 Upper West Side Studio and a Parkside Windsor Terrace Two-Bedroom Plus a loftlike one-bedroom near Yankee Stadium.
    By Jenny Xie
  33. Just an Extremely Lovely Greek Revival House in Hudson The first floor is especially grand, with ten-foot ceilings and three parlor rooms.
    By Jenny Xie
  34. Is This a Boat? Miami officials say no.
    By Clio Chang
  35. A $650,000 Bed-Stuy One-Bedroom Condo and an Upper West Side Brownstone Duplex Plus a 1,000-square-foot prewar two-bedroom in Inwood.
    By Jenny Xie
  36. Rebel Wilson Is Selling Her House on Instagram But she won’t tag her broker.
    By Zach Schiffman
  37. The 59-Story Walk-up No one can figure out what’s wrong at the luxury Financial District high-rise.
    By Clio Chang
  38. A Greenwich Village Townhouse With a Massive Antique Door and Colorful Tiles Since 1968, the townhouse has belonged to the family of George Pitt, who, as his son Alexander says, was “the Don Draper of Greenwich Village.”
    By Jenny Xie
  39. How Airbnb Reinvented Itself As the World’s Crisis-Housing Provider In times of disaster, from war in Ukraine to wildfires in California, the platform is hoping to become something closer to critical infrastructure.
    By Molly Osberg
  40. A $565,000 Gramercy Park Studio and a Renovated Condo at the Ansonia Plus a prewar one-bedroom in Chelsea with an arched brick fireplace.
    By Jenny Xie
  41. StreetEasy Tries to Dominate Field and Placate Agents The listings giant will no longer ban agents for not following its prompt posting policy, but it’s not ceding much (if any) power.
    By Kim Velsey
  42. A Pristine William Lescaze Modernist Townhouse on East 70th Street It’s Lescaze’s third and last townhouse in Manhattan — and the most thoroughly restored.
    By Jenny Xie
  43. The Supply-Chain Shortage Hits Home Stagers The supply-chain shortage in sofas and everything else has forced stagers to stockpile pillows and drive hours for used furniture.
    By Kim Velsey
  44. A $595,000 Gramercy Park Studio and a West Village Corner Spot This week’s roundup also includes a Morningside Heights two-bedroom with 10-foot beamed ceilings.
    By Jenny Xie
  45. An Architect-Historian’s Carefully Preserved 1894 Townhouse in Park Slope Its most recent steward is the family of Elliot Willensky, who lived here while working on the very first AIA Guide to New York City.
    By Jenny Xie
  46. A Soaring East 57th Street Duplex Last Sold More Than 50 Years Ago The apartment has a two-story living room with 18-foot ceilings and enormous casement windows.
    By Jenny Xie
  47. Secret Staircases and Gold Everything: A Tour of Russian-Billionaire New York If the government seizes any of it, we call first dibs.
    By Kim Velsey
  48. TikTok Is the Hot New Place to Melt Down About Rent Increases “Tell me you just got your NYC rent increase notice without telling MEEEE”
    By Clio Chang
  49. I’m a Contractor for New York City’s Wealthiest, Most Secretive Clients On NDAs, skirting the law, and $6,000 hinges.
    By Clio Chang
  50. A $375,000 Sunset Park One-Bedroom and a Brooklyn Heights Cul-de-sac Two-Bedroom This week’s roundup also includes a Prospect Heights corner two-bedroom with at least one window on all four sides.
    By Jenny Xie
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