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A $695K Soho One-Bedroom and a Prewar Apartment With Gramercy Park Access

 Plus, a $349K studio in Beekman, a spacious two-bedroom in Prospect Park South, and more. By Jenny Xie
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. We Unearthed the 60 Best Rent Deals in NYC Right Now A Fort Greene apartment with a splash of lemon-yellow, a $1,700 East Village spot with a strangely natural-looking spot for a Peloton, and more.
    By Jenny Xie and Katy Schneider
  4. The Real-Estate Listings Tech Reporter Taylor Lorenz Likes to Stare At “I literally know every house in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.”
    By Taylor Lorenz and Jenny Xie
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. The $99,900 Studios on Billionaires’ Row Carnegie House residents are racing to offload their apartments. Why?
    By Hilary Reid
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. The Real-Estate Listings Novelist Rumaan Alam Likes to Stare At “Listen, I’d probably do bad things to get this house.”
    By Rumaan Alam
  17. Can the Wall Street Foreclosure Vultures Be Stopped This Time? A chance to prevent private equity from devouring small landlords.
    By Jeff Andrews
  18. Mid-century House by a Frank Lloyd Wright Apprentice Is Now $1M Cheaper The sprawling 7,000-square-foot home stands out on a New Jersey street of Colonials and Tudors.
    By Megan Barber
  19. Just a Very Pretty Upper East Side Two-Bedroom The twice-renovated prewar unit comes with restored casement windows and five built-in arched bookshelves.
    By Jenny Xie
  20. Neutra’s Poolside Gossip House Asks $25M in Palm Springs The much-photographed house that helped to define postwar modernism in California is for sale.
    By Megan Barber
  21. WeWork Didn’t Blow Up Without Help SoftBank’s reckless $10 billion bet on what became the city’s biggest landlord won’t be the last of its kind.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  22. Two Designers Are Selling Their Brick Townhouse on a Flatbush Cul-de-sac Asking $1.7 million, the townhouse comes with new decks out back and a finished basement with its own spacious kitchen.
    By Jenny Xie
  23. Who Will Determine the Post-Amazon Future for Long Island City? Plans to reshape the waterfront are stuck in a rudderless moment.
    By Caroline Spivack
  24. 12 (Vetted) Tree Houses to Rent, From Silicon Valley to Woodstock We’ve combed through hundreds of listings and vacation-rental reviews to find the best tree houses for rent in the U.S.
    By Megan Barber
  25. Meet the Couple Who Bought the Brutalist Bachelor Pad You Saw on Twitter People went wild for the house online, but these people actually plan to live in it.
    By Emma Alpern
  26. Everything You Need to Know About NYC’s Housing Market The COVID-19 pandemic turned New York’s housing market on its head, creating sometimes conflicting trends that house hunters need to be familiar with.
    By Jeff Andrews
  27. Still Closer Than Maplewood: A Deeply Renovated Carriage House in Maspeth Its laundry room is so large it feels practically suburban.
    By Jenny Xie
  28. Renegotiating Your Rent (Or Finding a Better Deal) Tips from experts and tenants on how to upgrade or renegotiate the terms of your lease.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  29. Jazz Icon Dave Brubeck’s Connecticut House Feels Frozen in 1963 Three of his pianos and an organ are still there (but, sadly, they aren’t included in the asking price).
    By Megan Barber
  30. Why Is Ex–Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh Buying Houses En Masse in Utah? Hsieh has purchased 71 bathrooms in Park City in less than three months.
    By Megan Barber
  31. The Best Apartments on the Upper West Side, According to an Upper West Sider “Over the years, I’ve marveled at 3 Riverside Drive, mooned over Milton Glaser’s studio, and dreamed of Aaron Shikler’s windows.”
    By Sadie Stein
  32. Artist Sterling Ruby’s Compound in the Valley Comes With Outdoor Tub, Kiln Room Ruby worked with a team of architects from SCI-Arc to design the Sunland spread.
    By Pauline O'Connor
  33. 6 Frank Lloyd Wright Homes for Sale Right Now Would you rather live in a Usonian gem, a Prairie School masterpiece, or a former schoolhouse?
    By Megan Barber
  34. The 10 Best Alternatives to Airbnb From a vacation rental company that focuses on families to one that wants to combat racism, here are ten alternatives for your next vacation.
    By Megan Barber
  35. Ashley Nicole Black’s Week in Zillow Saves Ashley Nicole Black hates intricate doors and can appreciate a soulless West Hollywood listing.
    By Alexis Swerdloff
  36. Architect Couple’s L.A. Courtyard House With Le Corbusier Lighting Asks $2.7M The space is a pleasing interplay of colors, textures, materials, shapes, and Le Corbusier lighting.
    By Pauline O'Connor
  37. John Black Lee Mid-Century in New Canaan Asks $5M A 2017 expansion by New York architect Joel Sanders includes a master suite, gym, and garage.
    By Megan Barber
  38. In Palm Springs, a Krisel Mid-century Home With a Yellow Shadow-Block Wall The Racquet Club Estates home has an updated kitchen and entertaining bar, plus an outdoor fireplace by the pool.
    By Megan Barber
  39. A Glendale Home Where Not Much Has Changed Since 1968 It’s on the market for the second time ever.
    By Pauline O'Connor
  40. Mid-Century Post and Beam in Silver Lake Asks $2M It’s one of a handful of homes pioneering Chinese-American Eugene Kinn Choy designed in the neighborhood.
    By Pauline O'Connor
  41. A Meticulously Restored Marcel Breuer (With Hudson River Views) Asks $4.2M The 1953 home, located about an hour north of Manhattan, was built for textile designer Vera Neumann.
    By Megan Barber
  42. A Fully Restored 1949 Neutra House in South Pasadena Last sold in 2001, the home was built from plans drawn for the famed Case Study House program.
    By Pauline O'Connor
  43. A Stucco Mansion in Prospect Park South With Two Balconies and a Cutting Garden The historic residence is one-third neo-Tudor, one-third Colonial Revival, and one-third Spanish mission.
    By Valeria Ricciulli
  44. John Lautner’s 1952 Hollywood Hills House Hits the Market for the First Time The impeccably maintained residence was built for a grocer and his family.
    By Pauline O'Connor
  45. A 19-Year-Old Designed This Mid-Century “Statement Home” For His Parents in 1960 The San Diego-area property was photographed by Julius Shulman shortly after its completion, then went unseen for decades.
    By Pauline O'Connor
  46. Sea Ranch-esque Compound Comes With Its Own Cable Tram The hillside home offers mid-century vibes with a postmodern twist.
    By Brock Keeling
  47. Five-Cottage Storybook Compound in Los Feliz Returns to Market After 45 Years The structures were handcrafted with mostly salvaged materials, including ropes and oars from Jack London’s boat.
    By Pauline O'Connor
  48. Austin Mid-Century Time Capsule Comes With Peachy Formica Countertops And so much stone wall.
    By Jenny Xie
  49. Exploring a Real-Estate Time Capsule in Harlem Inside Graham Court, a Gilded Age rental from the architects behind the Apthorp.
    By Matthew Sedacca