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A $249K Forest Hills Alcove Studio and a Beekman Prewar One-Bedroom

 Plus a convertible two-bedroom with an updated kitchen and bathroom in Windsor Terrace. By Jenny Xie
  1. We Unearthed 13 Actually Excellent Rentals in NYC Right Now This week, we noticed a couple of apartments with rarely seen details, like a scalloped-arch doorway (framing a bathtub) in Ditmas Park.
    By Jenny Xie
  2. A Newly Renovated Connecticut Castle on 275 Acres Gargoyles, a grotto garden, and “little goodies at every turn.”
    By Jenny Xie
  3. Kushner and Kloss Have Klosed on Puck Building Penthouse They bought it (at a nice discount) from Kushner’s own family business.
    By Kim Velsey
  4. A $520K East Village One-Bedroom and an Inwood Three-Bedroom Duplex Plus a Brooklyn Heights one-bedroom with original stained glass and a gut-renovated kitchen .
    By Jenny Xie
  5. One of the Most Popular Upstate Airbnbs Is Now on the Market The Barn at Tivoli has a woodburning stove that has been called “a real treat.”
    By Jenny Xie
  6. And Just Like That, Peloton CEO Buys Big East Hampton Estate It’s worth about a dozen times as much as the place he’s selling.
    By Kim Velsey
  7. The Site Chosen by Elizabeth Street Garden Supporters Gets Affordable Housing But that doesn’t mean the garden will stay.
    By Kim Velsey
  8. A $575K Soho Studio and an East Village One-Bedroom With Beamed Ceilings Plus an Upper West Side two-bedroom with a 24-foot-long living room.
    By Jenny Xie
  9. If This Deal Is Any Guide, New York Rents Aren’t Going to Calm Down Anytime Soon The buyers of the American Copper Buildings are betting on the numbers rising and rising some more.
    By Kim Velsey
  10. Does Succession Sell Mansions and Luxury Condos? The real life of the Roys’ real estate.
    By Kim Velsey
  11. Architects Agree: The Buildings Around the High Line Are Terrible The black hole of starchitecture.
    By Kim Velsey
  12. A $399K Chelsea Studio and a Floor-Through Two-Bedroom in Crown Heights Plus a Brooklyn Heights one-bedroom with a large private roof-deck.
    By Jenny Xie
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. The Standard Hotel Could Be Facing Foreclosure All that nightlife doesn’t necessarily fill the rooms.
    By Kim Velsey
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. Psychoanalyzing the Housing Frenzy With Redfin’s CEO The emotional and financial stakes of buying a home have never been higher.
    By Joshua Hunt
  22. 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
  23. The New York Real-Estate Agents Turned TikTok Stars Viral dances have nothing on apartment walk-throughs and neighborhood in-jokes.
    By Kim Velsey
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. This Pristine ’60s Ranch Is Actually From … 2021? It came together with dead-stock appliances and a half-century-old blueprint.
    By Emma Alpern
  29. 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
  30. River Ring Gets Okayed, With 13 Conditions Smaller towers, more affordable apartments, and a slew of other requirements.
    By Kim Velsey
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. The Village’s Skinniest Townhouse Is for Sale Yet Again It never gets any wider, but the price keeps going up.
    By Kim Velsey
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. So Long, 666 Fifth Avenue Its past lives included Noguchi art, a cigar lounge, that satanic address, and Jared Kushner.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  41. Barneys, Deader Than Ever, Is Becoming a Spirit Halloween Retail apocalypse made manifest.
    By Kim Velsey
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. Equinox Has Decided That No, It Will Not Pay Its Rent Which is, apparently, absolutely fine.
    By Kim Velsey
  45. 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
  46. Wait, Calvin Klein Just Sold Another $85 Million House? Don’t worry, he has more.
    By Kim Velsey
  47. Billionaires Can’t Get Enough of 220 Central Park South It’s eclipsed One57, where apartments are selling at a loss.
    By Kim Velsey
  48. 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
  49. 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
  50. 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
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