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 This week, we found a couple of renovated studios that have especially pleasing private outdoor spaces. By Jenny Xie
  1. A $399,000 Chelsea Studio and a Floor-Through 2-Bedroom in Crown Heights Plus a Brooklyn Heights one-bedroom with a large private roof-deck.
    By Jenny Xie
  2. What We Know About Princess Mako’s Strikingly Mundane Hell’s Kitchen Apartment We weren’t expecting her first spot to have ballrooms and gilded ceilings, but 525 West 52nd Street is a bit blander than one might expect.
    By Jenny Xie
  3. Everything We Know About the Immense, Messy Macklowe Art Auction $600 million worth of Giacomettis, Picassos, de Koonings, and more; one really messy divorce.
    By Kim Velsey
  4. A $675K West Village One-Bedroom and a 1,750-Square-Foot Riverdale Apartment Plus a Lower East Side one-bedroom with a built-in home office.
    By Jenny Xie
  5. Architect Frederick Tang’s Week in Zillow Saves “I have hundreds of saved listings just sitting in there. It’s like collecting trading cards.”
    By Jenny Xie
  6. The Standard Hotel Could Be Facing Foreclosure All that nightlife doesn’t necessarily fill the rooms.
    By Kim Velsey
  7. Why Did So Many Homeowners Sell to Zillow This Summer? Because It Overpaid. The algorithm got overoptimistic, and the company is abandoning iBuying to save itself.
    By Kim Velsey
  8. Why Won’t These Celebrity Homes Sell Even in This Overheated Market? A handful of languishing celebrity homes have continued to…well, languish. We took it upon ourselves to figure out why.
    By Jenny Xie
  9. The Last of the Bespoke Brokers After Warburg’s sale to Coldwell Banker, the business is almost all behemoths, with a few boutiques hanging on.
    By Kim Velsey
  10. Psychoanalyzing the Housing Frenzy With Redfin’s CEO The emotional and financial stakes of buying a home have never been higher.
    By Joshua Hunt
  11. Author Danielle Prescod’s Week in Zillow Saves “In New Orleans, I don’t have a car, so I’m always walking. That means I’ve gotten obsessed with certain buildings.”
    By Jenny Xie
  12. The New York Real-Estate Agents Turned TikTok Stars Viral dances have nothing on apartment walk-throughs and neighborhood in-jokes.
    By Kim Velsey
  13. A $550K Chelsea Loft Studio and a Prospect Heights Two-Bedroom Plus a little red two-bedroom house in Kingsbridge that’s only a three-minute walk from the 1 train.
    By Jenny Xie
  14. It’s Time to Let the Elizabeth Street Garden Go It may be a pretty oasis, but we as a city are desperate for affordable housing.
    By Kim Velsey
  15. A $485,000 Greenwich Village Studio and a Renovated Boerum Hill One-Bedroom This week’s picks also includes a Midtown studio with checkered marble floors and a Kensington one-bedroom with a private terrace.
    By Jenny Xie
  16. An Angular Time Capsule in Ardsley Inside, there’s a cathedral-like living room with original redwood walls and ceilings, a gigantic brick fireplace, and extensive sliding glass doors.
    By Jenny Xie
  17. This Pristine ’60s Ranch Is Actually From … 2021? It came together with dead-stock appliances and a half-century-old blueprint.
    By Emma Alpern
  18. A $369K Sunnyside One-Bedroom and a Hudson Heights Convertible Two-Bedroom This week’s picks also include a Park Slope one-bedroom with a sunken living room.
    By Jenny Xie
  19. River Ring Gets Okayed, With 13 Conditions Smaller towers, more affordable apartments, and a slew of other requirements.
    By Kim Velsey
  20. A $22.5M Apartment at 740 Park Goes From a Mnuchin to a Tisch Lacey Tisch, the daughter of Loews magnate Andrew Tisch, is the buyer of Steve Mnuchin’s apartment. Oddly placed black toilet included.
    By Kim Velsey
  21. A $375K Forest Hills One-Bedroom and a Carroll Gardens Loft This week’s picks also includes a 1910 Cypress Hills rowhouse and a renovated two-bedroom in Morningside Heights.
    By Jenny Xie
  22. The “Horrendous” Luxury Rentals That Need Gut Renovations After Just a Decade The life cycle of a high-end building is getting shorter.
    By Kim Velsey
  23. Comedian Aparna Nancherla’s Week in Zillow Saves “I am immediately onboard with an architect’s house, because they’re gonna know what they’re doing.”
    By Jenny Xie
  24. The Village’s Skinniest Townhouse Is for Sale Yet Again It never gets any wider, but the price keeps going up.
    By Kim Velsey
  25. Why Does Jeff Bezos Love This Unremarkable Building in the West 20s So Much? He’s assembled 25,000 square feet on a not-especially-pretty stretch of middle Fifth Avenue.
    By Kim Velsey
  26. Why Was It So Hard to Sell a House That Promised Eternal Life? The strange Bioscleave House took an even stranger path to find a buyer.
    By Diana Budds
  27. A $598K Three-Bedroom in Concourse and a Colorful Flatbush Two-Bedroom This week’s picks also include a convertible three-bedroom on the Upper West Side.
    By Jenny Xie
  28. A Bay Ridge House With an Italian Villa Feel (Wine Grotto Included) One of the most striking features the current owners added are the barrel-vaulted ceilings in the family room.
    By Jenny Xie
  29. So Long, 666 Fifth Avenue Its past lives included Noguchi art, a cigar lounge, that satanic address, and Jared Kushner.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  30. Barneys, Deader Than Ever, Is Becoming a Spirit Halloween Retail apocalypse made manifest.
    By Kim Velsey
  31. A $375K Hudson Heights Prewar Studio and a Huge Jackson Heights Two-Bedroom This week’s picks also includes a huge Jackson Heights two-bedroom.
    By Jenny Xie
  32. A 1961 A-frame on the Connecticut Shoreline This waterfront home in Sachem’s Head, a tiny hamlet on a 600-acre peninsula, is on the market for the very first time.
    By Jenny Xie
  33. Equinox Has Decided That No, It Will Not Pay Its Rent Which is, apparently, absolutely fine.
    By Kim Velsey
  34. A $575K Greenwich Village Studio and a Harlem Two-Bedroom This week’s picks also includes a Brooklyn Heights apartment with two skylights and fireplaces.
    By Jenny Xie
  35. Wait, Calvin Klein Just Sold Another $85 Million House? Don’t worry, he has more.
    By Kim Velsey
  36. Billionaires Can’t Get Enough of 220 Central Park South It’s eclipsed One57, where apartments are selling at a loss.
    By Kim Velsey
  37. A $525K NoMad Studio and a Boerum Hill Two-Bedroom with a Multi-Level Backyard Plus an Upper West Side studio with gold tin ceilings and a balcony.
    By Jenny Xie
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. Two People, One Room, 16 Months: The Studio-Apartment Couples of the Pandemic Zoom in the bathroom, Netflix every night.
    By Kim Velsey
  41. 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
  42. Can Rockefeller Center Ever Be Hip? Tishman Speyer attempts a retail revolution in peak midtown.
    By Kim Velsey
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. 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
  47. The Man Behind L.A.’s Megamansions Ramtin Ray Nosrati is a developer for our new Gilded Age.
    By Adrian Chen
  48. 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
  49. 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
  50. 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
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