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This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings

A lot of action in Brooklyn Heights. And have you considered a barn in Katonah?
  1. Is Barron Trump Really Launching His Own Real-Estate Company? The 18-year-old registered one with a prep-school friend and an Idaho real-estate scion before the election.
  2. The Parsley-Green Dining Room on Clinton Street A $12.995 million townhouse in Cobble Hill for the buyer who wants to be immersed in colorful tile.
  3. An Art Deco One-Bedroom on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade for $995,000 Plus an extremely spacious two-bedroom in Prospect Heights and a Yorkville one-bedroom near Central Park.
  4. Are Kamala and Doug Really Moving to West 61st Street? We’ll believe it when we see it.
  5. Does the World Need Another Real-Estate Reality Show? Eleonora Srugo, friend to Mayor Adams and star of Netflix’s new Selling the City, thinks so.
  6. What’s Burned Down Joshua Jackson’s home, a Richard Neutra house in the Palisades. A running list of celebrity homes and architectural institutions lost.
  7. A Smartly Restored Stone House and Bonus Party Barn in Kingston Plus, a New City estate designed by Henry Varnum Poor.
  8. Elite Co-ops Are Begrudgingly Accepting LLCs Boards of the old-line buildings have long been loath to approve them. But financial necessity may force their hands.
  9. A Cobble Hill Two-Bedroom With Room for a Third for $995,000 And a Horatio Street studio to consider.
  10. The Jeff Bezos Effect on Indian Creek Island A plot next to the Amazon founder’s Florida home that went for $27 million in 2018 was listed for $200 million last month.
  11. A Practically Perfect House in the Pines It’s a classic example of Horace Gifford’s utilitarian architecture that grew out of four simple-but-handsome cedar boxes.
  12. Curbed’s 10 Most-Read ‘Truly Terrific’ Listings of 2024 Including a 1970s bachelor pad, the top of an 1895 schoolhouse, and an artist’s Alice in Wonderland–style loft.
  13. The Celebrity Homes No One Wanted Ben and Jen’s divorce compound, Alec Baldwin’s Amagansett farmhouse, and the other properties that languished on the market in 2024.
  14. A Proper Ditmas Two-Bed With Space for a Second Bathroom And a Brooklyn Heights one-bed for thrill seekers.
  15. Maybe Try For a Co-op in 2025 Brokers on where they think the New York market is heading and where you might find a good deal.
  16. Are Broker Fees Free Speech? “REBNY doesn’t need to care whether they win — they have enough money to throw in a speed bump.”
  17. How Aby Rosen Lost the Chrysler Building RFR wanted to return the building to its original swagger. It was a risky bet from the start.
  18. A First Look at Audrey Gelman’s Six Bells Hotel The ruffly 11-room hotel is set to open in the Hudson Valley next spring.
  19. A Boerum Hill One-Bedroom With a Cobalt-Blue Fireplace for $575,000 And a sunny little co-op in Jackson Heights that’s so cheap, you’ll faint.
  20. The Alexander Brothers Have Been Arrested and Charged With Sex Trafficking Oren and Alon were granted bail by a state judge, but are still being held in custody on federal charges.
  21. An Appealingly Petite Log Cabin in Phoenicia And a “hand-restored” ski getaway with its own EV charger.
  22. Who Came Up With Those Rental Income Requirements Anyway? Figuring it out is harder than you’d think.
  23. Ty Pennington Is Moving to Tribeca The HGTV star won’t have much to renovate in the 1852 brick warehouse turned luxury condo.
  24. Is This the End of the Hostage Tenant? Lowering the cost of moving means more renters can escape their terrible apartments.
  25. A Gilded One-Bedroom on West End Avenue for $839,000 And a Crown Heights condo that held on to all of its charm in a recent renovation.
  26. Bob Dylan’s Former Turtle Bay Townhouse Is for Sale He bought the place under his manager’s name, after renting for years from the actor Ruth Gordon.
  27. Bill Cosby Is Facing Foreclosure on East 61st The disgraced comedian owes $4.2 million on his Lenox Hill mansion. His other mansion, on East 71st, seems fine.
  28. A Tree House in the West Village for $775,000 And a Park Slope dentist’s office that’s actually a pretty ideal three-bedroom.
  29. It’s Christmas for D.C.’s Luxury Brokers “We were calling all our clients and saying, ‘Hey, do you want to sell your $9 million house?’”
  30. A Brooklyn Heights Townhouse With a Country-Home Feel Architect Wids DeLaCour Jr. won an award for the way he opened up this former “wreck” of a 19th-century townhouse.
  31. A Spacious One-Bed on a Highish Floor in the Clinton Hill Co-ops for $735,000 And a Park Slope two-bed that’s snug but smartly laid out.
  32. The Lichtenstein Family Is Selling a Townhouse The 1845 house where the artist once lived has pumpkin pine flooring and a solarium kitchen.
  33. The Same Guy Who Bought Kanye’s Malibu Mansion Wants Diddy’s Bo Belmont offered half the listed price.
  34. My Doomed Hunt for a House in the Rockaways I was ready to buy a home in a neighborhood I loved. Was I delusional?
  35. Arthur Sulzberger Jr. Is Moving to Morningside Heights The former New York Times publisher bought a $2.45 million condo in the Robert A.M. Stern–designed Claremont Hall.
  36. Apple-Picking With Your Luxury Building Sounds Miserable Developers are trying to make adult field trips a hot new amenity for renters.
  37. Two Balconies and a Grand Courtyard on E. 78th for $500,000 And a Brooklyn Heights two-bedroom co-op that doesn’t require board approval.
  38. Bill Ackman Is Getting Out of the Beresford The hedge-fund billionaire is selling two units for a total of $20 million.
  39. The Trump Luxury Bump All-cash buyers in Manhattan seemed to be feeling pretty good last week, setting a seasonal high for contracts signed.
  40. The Black Hole on Columbia Heights An Italianate mansion mysteriously left to rot on Matt Damon’s Brooklyn Heights block.
  41. A Reckoning for the Dilettante Real-Estate Agent Professional brokers are hoping new industry rules might cull the amateurs.
  42. Good-bye to the Broker Fee The City Council voted today to stop your landlord from passing his expenses on to you.
  43. A Clinton Hill One-Bedroom With an Ideal Layout for $685,000 And a handsome little studio that made us reconsider the Financial District.
  44. A Former Arts Colony With a Saltwater Pool in Woodstock And a David Henken retreat in the woods for less than a million.
  45. ‘I Don’t Think There’s Anything in This Apartment That Wasn’t Custom’ This Noho duplex on the market is full of clever interventions.
  46. A Kips Bay One-Bedroom With Brownstone Charm for $595,000 And a Greenwich Village studio with lovely built-ins and a Murphy bed.
  47. The Weird Worth of 40 Wall Street Donald Trump’s most troubled real estate could soon become a slick machine to curry favor with the president.
  48. Elon Musk Wants a Big Love Compound The billionaire has so far bought three neighboring mansions in Austin to house his 11 children and at least some of their moms.
  49. What Might Be the Nicest $700,000 One-Bedroom in Brooklyn And a Harlem two-bed that almost feels too affordable to be true.
  50. The Phone-Detox Amenity At the all-electric 505 State Street, residents are asked to unplug.
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