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Wait, Calvin Klein Just Sold Another $85 Million House?

 Don’t worry, he has more. By Kim Velsey
  1. We Unearthed the 29 Best Rent Deals in NYC Right Now Our hunt this week surfaced several spots with unusually abundant glazing, including a Fort Greene one-bedroom that has a five-window “sunroom”.
    By Jenny Xie
  2. A $525K NoMad Studio and a Boerum Hill Two-Bedroom with a Multi-Level Backyard Plus an Upper West Side with gold tin ceilings and a balcony.
    By Jenny Xie
  3. Billionaires Can’t Get Enough of 220 Central Park South It’s eclipsed One57, where apartments are selling at a loss.
    By Kim Velsey
  4. A Rare Brooklyn Townhouse Listing: Unrenovated, Unstaged, and Filled to the Brim “Literal crime scene” or just someone’s messy home? Either way, it will sell.
    By Kim Velsey
  5. An Early Richard Meier House (With Two Pools) in New Jersey Horse Country Inside, sculptural curved walls gently separate living spaces, while public areas are anchored by minimalist built-in furniture.
    By Jenny Xie
  6. Two People, One Room, 16 Months: The Studio-Apartment Couples of the Pandemic Zoom in the bathroom, Netflix every night.
    By Kim Velsey
  7. A $369K Upper East Side Alcove Studio and a Park Slope Two-Bedroom Plus a rare townhouse triplex (with a private roof terrace) on the Upper West Side.
    By Jenny Xie
  8. Can Rockefeller Center Ever Be Hip? Tishman Speyer attempts a retail revolution in peak midtown.
    By Kim Velsey
  9. A $675K West Village One-Bedroom and a Boerum Hill Corner Duplex Plus a Fort Greene brownstone apartment with a lovely private terrace.
    By Jenny Xie
  10. Julianne Moore Sells Her West Village Townhouse for $15 Million It took two listings, 12 years, and an ‘Architectural Digest’ feature, but the actress has finally sold her West Village home.
    By Kim Velsey
  11. Got an Old Power Plant Lying Around? Crypto Miners Are Buying Them Up They’ll take denim mills, airplane hangars, and aluminum smelters too.
    By Sophie Haigney
  12. A $369K Williamsburg Studio and a Bushwick Two-Bedroom With a Hot Tub Plus a sunny prewar one-bedroom in Washington Heights.
    By Jenny Xie
  13. The Man Behind L.A.’s Megamansions Ramtin Ray Nosrati is a developer for our new Gilded Age.
    By Adrian Chen
  14. Inside Austin’s Wild Real-Estate Market Homes going $850,000 above asking, 96 offers in one weekend, and more tales from America’s most intense housing frenzy.
    By Paul L. Underwood
  15. The Co-Living Start-ups That Survived the Pandemic Are Merging — and Flourishing The pandemic brought consolidation to the co-living industry. Could it also bring an end to all the utopian rhetoric?
    By Kim Velsey
  16. A Woman Turned a Room in Her Brownstone Into an All-Pink Content-Creation Studio It’s doing so well, the owner is turning another room in the building into an all-mint-colored version.
    By Jenny Xie
  17. The Hostel Has Closed on Nantucket The Star of the Sea — a cheap place to be — has been purchased and, yes, kicked the bucket.
    By Kim Velsey
  18. Daniel Humm Buys $14.5 Million Co-op from Chipotle Founder The Eleven Madison Park Chef is moving to lower Fifth Avenue.
    By Kim Velsey
  19. Going Back to the Office Means Long Island City’s Rent Deals Are Over Long Island City rents are sharply on the rise as white collar workers flood back into the city. They’re up 5.82 percent in May over April.
    By Kim Velsey
  20. My Toilet Is My Office In April of 2020, about a month into full-time working from home with her husband and two kids, Niamh Sproul decided something had to change.
    By Jenny Xie
  21. The Turreted Royal Tenenbaums House Is for Rent A few rooms still feel vaguely Wes Anderson-esque.
    By Jenny Xie
  22. A Bed-Stuy Brownstone With Tons of (Well-Preserved) Hand-Carved Wood The current owner, who has lived in the house for well over 50 years, made many upgrades while protecting original details.
    By Jenny Xie
  23. Rufus Wainwright’s Self-Described ‘Dump’ of a Pied-à-Terre Is for Sale The Gramercy Park studio, which Wainwright once called “a total dump,” is pretty tiny (but it still has thousand-dollar wallpaper).
    By Jenny Xie
  24. You Can Now Rent Alison Roman’s Apartment It’s located in Boerum Hill, or, as Roman calls the neighborhood, “the Paris of Brooklyn.”
    By Brock Colyar
  25. Overshareholders! Co-op Boards May Have to Disclose Why They’re Rejecting People They’re bracing for lawsuits.
    By Caroline Spivack
  26. ‘Chief Pencil Lady’ Caroline Weaver’s Week in Zillow Saves “My three strongest home fantasies are: buying an old Girl Scout or Boy Scout camp, a Usonian house, or a really, really, really old house in Italy.”
    By Jenny Xie
  27. What If Compass Is Basically Just Like Every Other Real-Estate Brokerage? Except with a nicer logo and an over-leveraged IPO.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  28. A Carefully Crafted Mid-Century Time Capsule on the Concourse The two-bedroom apartment is packed with details inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, Joseph Eichler, and Eero Saarinen (among others).
    By Jenny Xie
  29. A Double-Dome Home Built by a Juggler Each of the two domes has 30-foot wood ceilings, which are still in great original condition.
    By Jenny Xie
  30. You Can Finally Live Like a Whitney A villa built as an art studio for the museum’s founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, is for sale.
    By Wendy Goodman
  31. This Maximalist East Village Church Is for Sale Practically every surface of its 74-foot-long sanctuary and chancel is covered in gilded icons and ornaments, stained glass, and tiny figurines.
    By Jenny Xie
  32. Everything We Know About the Sweeping New Housing Discrimination Lawsuit “Not a hope in hell”: Eighty-eight brokers and landlords are caught on tape rejecting housing vouchers.
    By Caroline Spivack
  33. Miami’s Little Manhattan During the pandemic, many well-off New Yorkers fled to South Florida … and their favorite restaurants followed.
    By Bill Kearney
  34. Trump or Epstein: Which Depraved House Would You Buy? A $50 million dilemma.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  35. L.A. Startup Advertises Nonexistent One-Quarter Bedrooms in Brooklyn Heights Is Brownstone Shared Housing a disruptive new housing solution or a neo-flophouse operator? It’s hard to say.
    By Jack Denton
  36. Author Rebecca Makkai’s Week in Zillow Saves “The one thing that I look for in all these listings is the closet that’s the size of an entire room.”
    By Jenny Xie
  37. Century 21 Is Returning, But You Can’t Get There on the Subway Because … it’s in Busan, South Korea.
    By Caroline Spivack
  38. The Gut Renovation of Ryan Serhant He was a real-estate striver slinging cheap rentals until Million Dollar Listing — and a pandemic market — made him the plutocracy’s broker of choice.
    By Andrew Rice
  39. A Tudoresque Riverdale House Originally Owned by Isabel Bishop On the market for the first time in over 30 years, the five-bedroom Fieldston house comes with a ton of original woodwork and colorful tiles.
    By Jenny Xie
  40. There’s a New Bidding War For the Studio Next Door Well-off New Yorkers covet an office down the hall.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  41. A Prewar Floor-Through in Chelsea (With Tin Ceilings From Minnesota) The parlor floor unit has more or less every original period detail one could imagine.
    By Jenny Xie
  42. A Brooklyn Heights 3-Bedroom With Exposed Beams in Almost Every Room Originally two separate units, this airy co-op apartment sits on a street lined with real gas lamps.
    By Jenny Xie
  43. ‘They’re in Long Island, and Don’t Give a Sh*t’: Boards Ghost Their Residents And residents are none too pleased.
    By Matthew Sedacca
  44. ‘Catfish’ Host Kamie Crawford’s Week in Zillow Saves “You gotta manifest positivity in your home-buying process.”
    By Kamie Crawford and Jenny Xie
  45. A Florida Family Bought the Viral Shag-Carpet House Without Setting Foot Inside It’ll soon be a vacation rental, but without all of the wall-to-wall carpeting.
    By Emma Alpern
  46. A Waterfall Wall in a Lower East Side Carriage House The owners transformed a vintage platform elevator shaft into a stairway with the waterfall as backdrop.
    By Megan Barber
  47. A 1796 Townhouse With a Skylit Copper Tub The 25-foot-wide brick townhouse on Harriston Street also has the biggest private backyard on the block.
    By Jenny Xie
  48. Wait — Kim Owns the Land and Kanye Owns the House? Who cares about the divorce — is the couple in a land-lease situation?
    By Hilary Reid
  49. Why Hasn’t Anyone Bought This William Lescaze House? A pioneering 1935 house has been on and off the market for years.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  50. 9 (Vetted) Winter Airbnbs to Rent Within Three Hours of NYC Including a Nordic-style two-bedroom with a dry sauna and a Belleayre Mountain spot where the host provides s’more kits.
    By Megan Barber
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