Manhattan Blog Estate

One of the first blogs I wrote back in 2006 was titled Real Estate in a Post Zillow World after viewing a presentation by Marc David from Onboard LLC a Wall Street based data collector specializing in real estate data. The presentation was titled Real Estate in a post zillow world. It was quite i...

Location, Location, Location + Price, Price, Price = Best Deal    in Clinton/Hell's Kitchen Affordable PreWar Studio     Overview Maps Photos Neighborhood $219,000 $250 Maintenance First Showing Sunday March 10th 1:00 - 2:30 PM If you qualify this studio home may be right for you. HDFC Coop (Max...

A Global landmark designed by Herzog & de Meuron Cascading sculpted surfaces and sparkling glass Herzog & de Meuron custom design inside and out Master Bath custom-designed by Herzog & de Meuron Secondary Bath with marble mosaic tile walls Simmering 75 -foot lap pool and hot tub Library lounge: ...

NYC School Program to Help Prepare Students for College and Careers in Growing Tech Sector20 NYC public schools have been selected for the new Software Engineering Pilot program to begin at the start of the next school year. The schools will receive comprehensive computer science and software eng...

Manhattanville Like much of upper Manhattan, 200 years ago, Manhattanville was a largely unpopulated wooded valley. By the 1920s Manhattanville was the transit hub of Manhattan. New York's first subway line, then known as the IRT, passed through 125th Street and Broadway with the first elevated s...

Tonight many New Yorkers will have their own super bowl. The Academy Awards, The Oscars® There will be many Oscar parties and viewers in Living rooms throughout Manhattan tonight. The New York Academy members and Guests will celebrate the Oscars tonight at Daniel Boulud's iconic landmark restaur...

Governor Cuomo signed into law (Chapter 4 of the Laws of 2013) the Omnibus Housing bill that renews the coop/condo abatement and J-51 programs and amends the certain provisions of the 421a program. REBNY the real estate board of new York worked vigorously over the last six months for the early pa...

While one New York city icon Grand Central Terminal celebrates it's 100th birthday today, another New York City icon, former three term NYC mayor Ed Koch died this morning at age 88. We'll be paying our respects to Mayor Ed Koch for a long time. He really heped make NYC what it is today: The gre...

Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone More than 30% of the world's population lives alone, and that percentage is growing daily. How is this profound demographic shift transforming the economic and cultural life of cities around the globe? Join NYU sociologist ...

Today is Martin Luther King Day and President Obama's second term inauguration. A letter opener may have changed history. Martin Luther King Jr. would have died long before the “I Have a Dream” speech if the woman who attacked him in a Harlem department store in 1958 had been armed with an automa...