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The William Lescaze House: NYC’s first modernist residence
The William Lescaze House in 1934 via MCNY These days, it’s pretty common for historic townhouses to receive glassy additions, but this contemporary touch wasn’t always so common. In fact, it wasn’t...
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Grand Central will temporarily restore intercity rail service for the first...
Ahead of repair work set to begin at Penn Station next week, Amtrak said it will reroute some trains each weekday to Grand Central Terminal. For the first time since 1991, passengers will use the...
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Rosie O’Donnell drops $8M on a swanky Midtown East penthouse
Nearly two years after selling her chic Greenwich Village penthouse, Rosie O’Donnell finally has a new NYC home (she spends the majority of her time at her other house in Nyack). According to city...
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Clive Davis chops the price of his ritzy Midtown duplex to $6.996M
Back in 2015, five-time Grammy Award-winning producer and Sony Music Entertainment’s chief creative officer Clive Davis bought two units at 465 Park Avenue for $3.4 million, combining them to create a...
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City Council unanimously approves Midtown East rezoning plan
Conceptual image depicting all of the proposed sites of the East Midtown rezoning fully built out, via CityRealty After five years, the City Council approved a rezoning for Manhattan’s Midtown East on...
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Shoe guru Steve Madden steps into a $12.2M Billionaires’ Row condo
Shoe brand honcho Steve Madden put his best foot forward and stepped into an impressive spread at 252 East 57th Street. The Journal reports that the company’s founder and former CEO dropped $12.2...
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Problems at 666 Fifth Avenue tower linked to Jared Kushner’s White House role
A rendering of 666 Fifth Avenue, courtesy of Kushner Companies/Zaha Hadid Architects In 2007, Kushner Companies purchased a 41-story tower in Midtown for $1.8 billion, which was the most expensive...
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Beyoncé sells swanky Midtown apartment for $10M
Photo of Beyoncé via Wikimedia It’s been a busy summer for superstar couple Beyoncé and Jay-Z. The twosome recently purchased an LA estate for $88 million in August and shortly after they bought a...
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MTA will replace Grand Central Terminal’s old eateries with more ritzy ones
Grand Central Terminal, photo via NYC & Company At Grand Central Terminal, it’s in with the new, out with the old. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said it will replace stores that have...
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Snøhetta tapped as lead architect for $300M Sony Building restoration
Rendering of 550 Madison Avenue, via DBOX/ Snøhetta Over the last few years, plans to refurbish the former headquarters of AT&T and Sony Building at 550 Madison Avenue have come and gone,...
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One Vanderbilt’s outdoor observation deck may tie for highest in NYC
Nearly a year ago, developer SL Green confirmed that their 1,401-foot supertall One Vanderbilt, set to be the city’s second tallest building behind One World Trade Center, would boast a 1,020-foot...
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Robert A.M. Stern joins fight against Snøhetta’s plan to renovate Philip...
Photo of the protest courtesy of Nathan Eddy After Olayan America and Chelsfield revealed plans last week for a $300 million renovation of the building at 550 Madison Avenue, known as the AT&T...
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Trump Tower prices slide since 2015 presidential campaign
Photo of Trump Tower via Krystal T’s Flickr Sales prices at the tony Midtown condo building at 721 Fifth Avenue have dropped sharply since Donald Trump began his presidential campaign, according to the...
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Waldorf Astoria will lose 1,000 hotel rooms in renovation
Photo via Wiki Commons In the coming weeks, the renovation of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel will finally begin–a three-year process to convert much of the building to luxury condos. Hilton Worldwide...
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Empire State Building looking for tenants to fill 50,000 square feet of...
Photo via Wikimedia The landlords of New York City’s most iconic skyscraper are looking to fill 50,000 square feet of retail space by 2020, even as brick-and-mortar businesses in Manhattan have...
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New 70-story JPMorgan Chase tower will be the first project under Midtown...
A model of what the future 270 Park Ave building might look like via CityRealty Mayor Bill de Blasio and JPMorgan Chase announced on Wednesday plans to build a new 70-story world headquarters at the...
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Soon to be largest deliberately demolished tower ever, 270 Park Avenue...
270 Park Avenue via MikePScott’s Flickr Plans to replace JPMorgan Chase’s current headquarters at 270 Park Avenue with a much taller tower at the same site is facing opposition from architecture and...
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The Chinese government now owns the Waldorf Astoria
Photo via Wikimedia The Chinese government has taken control over debt-ridden Anbang Insurance Group, a Beijing-based firm known for snatching up prominent properties around the world for billions of...
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Highly elegant and highly classified: The history of espionage at the St. Regis
Photo via Wally Gobetz/Flickr You know that Old King Cole had a pipe and bowl, but did you know he also had a cloak and dagger? New York’s hyper-illustrious St. Regis Hotel, home to the famous King...
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Finalists for Park Avenue design contest propose an artificial mountain and a...
Fisher Brothers unveiled on Tuesday the 17 finalists chosen for its “Beyond the Centerline” design competition after receiving more than 150 submissions. Participants were asked to think of creative...
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