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2015
Location: Nashville, TennesseePrice: $3,500,000This 8,120-square-foot modern mansion with a cantilevered prow was built to the specifications of the late Marvin Runyon, a Tennessee business exec who served as U.S. Postmaster General from 1992 to 1998, and according to a short item in Luxury Portf...
05/24/2015
Listings website Zumper has once again worked its magic to take therental data from April, in which rents continued to rise citywide (surprise!) and Brooklyn reached a new plateau, and put the median rent for each neighborhood into easily digestible map form. Though perhaps digestible is the wro...
05/20/2015
By threatening to put an end to IkeaHackers, the go-to site for learning how to remix flat-pack Swedish furniture, Ikea made 2014 the year that the "Ikea hack" broke into the mainstream. Taking and later backing off of this harsh stance on what people did with their products, the world's largest ...
05/20/2015
The Class of 2015 may graduate to the most robust job market in quite some time, but that doesn't mean they're going to be raking in the big bucks they expect—at least at first. Add that to the fact that the New York City rental market is incredibly unfriendly and wildly expensiveright now, and i...
05/13/2015
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Rendering of the proposed Wegmans store Beloved grocery store chain Wegmans is set to open a new location on Admiral’s Row in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, after the Yard’s board approved a deal for Doug Steiner’s Steiner NYC to develop the site on Tuesday.Steiner, developer of the 25-acre Steiner S...
05/13/2015
[111 Varick Street in January 2013, via Google Streetview]Yet another parking garage will bite the dust to make way for apartments. This one is located at the corner of Varick and Broome streets in Hudson Square, an area currently seeing a lot of development thanks to a recent rezoning, so it's n...
05/12/2015
Necessity, or in this case, being close to the shipping room, can be the mother of invention. Tasked with transforming a shared office space with limited means, all while maintaining flexibility and functionality, Tokyo's Hiroki Tominaga Atelier turned to a raw material known for its utility: th...
05/08/2015
After living in New York for 5 years, I recently moved to San Francisco. Neither city is clearly superior, but there are some distinct differences…
05/05/2015
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The judge in the case was incredulous, and at a March 30 hearing, she said as much. “Corcoran, the biggest real estate broker in the state of New York, is coming to me and saying that ‘we need protection from this new start-up company?’”Indeed it was.As The Real Deal has reported, the firm sued t...
05/05/2015
Pablo Jendretzki sure lucked out when he met a couple with a 6,000-square-foot loft on Sixth Avenue in Soho. Not only did the couple, who work in film and entertain often, befriend the Argentinean-born architect—they hired him to do a major renovation. In 2010, Jendretzki embarked on an overhaul ...
05/04/2015
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Jeffrey Ditri
New York City Residential Rental Specialist