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 This week, we found a bunch of apartments with fantastic original details, from tin ceilings in Bed-Stuy to cast-iron columns in Tribeca. By Jenny Xie
  1. A Fort Greene One-Bedroom for $575k and a Few Two-Bedrooms With Private Rooftops Almost all of this week’s picks have private outdoor spaces.
    By Jenny Xie
  2. Overshareholders! Co-op Boards May Have to Disclose Why They’re Rejecting People They’re bracing for lawsuits.
    By Caroline Spivack
  3. ‘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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. Miami’s Little Manhattan During the pandemic, many well-off New Yorkers fled to South Florida … and their favorite restaurants followed.
    By Bill Kearney
  11. Trump or Epstein: Which Depraved House Would You Buy? A $50 million dilemma.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Century 21 Is Returning, But You Can’t Get There on the Subway Because … it’s in Busan, South Korea.
    By Caroline Spivack
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. There’s a New Bidding War For the Studio Next Door Well-off New Yorkers covet an office down the hall.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. ‘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
  21. ‘Catfish’ Host Kamie Crawford’s Week in Zillow Saves “You gotta manifest positivity in your home-buying process.”
    By Kamie Crawford and Jenny Xie
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. A Townhouse on Prospect Park West With a Perfectly Preserved Art Deco Bathroom Built in 1915, the brick building also has a gated driveway and garage.
    By Jenny Xie
  29. L.A. Real-Estate Agent Dalton Gomez Announces Engagement to Pop Singer His fiancée is Ariana Grande, a performer from Boca Raton, Florida.
    By Alissa Walker
  30. A Wall-to-Wall (to Bed) Floral Room in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Childhood Townhouse It makes a convincing case for matching bedding, curtains, and wallpaper.
    By Jenny Xie
  31. A Shingled House With a 13,000-Square-Foot Deck on Quantuck Bay The 1987 home designed by the prolific Long Island architect Norman Jaffe is on the market for $18.7 million.
    By Megan Barber
  32. A Three-Bedroom With 18-Foot Ceilings in the West 67th Street Artists’ Colony There’s also a huge caramel-colored kitchen that has storage on all four sides and a center island with a built-in toaster.
    By Jenny Xie
  33. Spite-Watching the Rent Fall on Your Old NYC Apartment Someone else is going to get it for less, dammit.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  34. An Upper East Side Classic Six That Never Left 1979 Not one, but two, rooms have mirrored ceilings.
    By Jenny Xie
  35. This Modernist Landmark in New Orleans Has Had Only Two Owners Ever The glass and brick home of Buster Curtis Jr., the architect who designed the Louisiana Superdome, is on the market for $1.8 million.
    By Megan Barber
  36. Doug Emhoff, Second-Gentleman-Elect, Grew Up in This Building in Brooklyn The Midwood roots of Kamala Harris’s husband.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  37. McKim, Mead & White Designed This Castle, the Olmsted Brothers Did the Grounds The 24,000-square-foot mansion overlooking Tuxedo Lake has 14 bedrooms and 11.5 baths.
    By Megan Barber
  38. Upper West Side Home Has 4 Floors, 3 Spiral Staircases, and a Catwalk The lower half of the 1,700-square-foot apartment used to be the operating room of a former hospital.
    By Jenny Xie
  39. Tech Reporter Taylor Lorenz’s Week in Zillow Saves “I literally know every house in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.”
    By Taylor Lorenz and Jenny Xie
  40. Stone, Stucco, and Chimneys Galore: A Chateau in Litchfield County for $2.2M On the market for the first time in 26 years.
    By Megan Barber
  41. Blue’s Clues Steve Is Selling His (Blue!) Converted Garage in Williamsburg The Williamsburg home has a huge courtyard surrounded by glass walls (and two more big roof decks).
    By Jenny Xie
  42. The $99,900 Studios on Billionaires’ Row Carnegie House residents are racing to offload their apartments. Why?
    By Hilary Reid
  43. The Downtown Co-op of All Downtown Co-ops The Art Deco building One Fifth Avenue has long been an expression of a certain type of New York–ness.
    By Matthew Sedacca
  44. Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian on Market for First Time Since 1965, at $1.7M Located about 40 minutes north of Chicago, the Carr house has only ever had two owners.
    By Megan Barber
  45. A Downtown Duplex Loft With a Balcony Over Broadway Listed for $1.25 million, this airy one-bedroom at Bleecker Court comes renovated with an open kitchen and spiral staircase.
    By Jenny Xie
  46. Are You Radical Chic Enough to Live in Leonard Bernstein’s Apartment? Mmmm, these are nice. The apartment where Lenny and Felicia Bernstein held that notorious fundraiser is listed for $29.5 million.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  47. A Brooklyn Heights Curiosity Is on the Market for the First Time Architectural Record named it a “trend-setting house of 1969.”
    By Megan Barber
  48. A Very Private Triplex in Hudson Square Hits Market for First Time in 20 Years The unit, renovated into a three-bedroom, has only changed hands once since becoming a co-op in the 1970s.
    By Jenny Xie
  49. 70 Vetted Airbnbs — All Within Three Hours of New York City A renovated milk barn (on a working farm) in the Catskills, a Shaker-themed “chalet” in the Poconos, and 68 others.
    By The Editors
  50. Are There Really Billions of Dollars in Sandy Aid to Help NYCHA Fight COVID? Turns out the money is spoken for and is being spent on a fairly inflexible schedule.
    By Jeff Andrews
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