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• On the Racked: Market Table, H&M Date Set, Boss to MePa

  Published: September 13, 2007, 2:10 pm

  Tags: Manhattan Meatpacking Mepa North, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Manhattan West Village, Racked, Retail

  to open next week. 2) Midtown: You know you've been waiting for it: The new 25,000 square foot H&M at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street (505 Fifth Ave) will be open on 9/27. Be one of the first 200 people in and you get a free t-shirt. 3) Midtown/MePa: Also from Midtown, but in a much different category, the retail rumor of the day is that Hugo

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• Madison Avenue Gets in on Mixed-Use Madness

  Published: September 14, 2007, 2:28 pm

  Tags: Hotels, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Real Estate Development

  The mystery of Madison Avenue has been solved. Near the start of the summer, Steve Cuozzo reported the purchase of several buildings on Madison near 34th Street. The plans called for a new residential tower, but there was still the annoying matter of retail tenants in the low-rise buildings, as well as a long-term lease on a rooftop antenna.

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• That's Rather Hideous: Needs Less Training

  Published: September 17, 2007, 3:53 pm

  Tags: Design Shelter, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay

  As Apartment Therapy or any design website will tell you, subway tiles are a hot decor trend right now. This, however, may be taking it a bit far. · Listing: East 53rd Street [Halstead]

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• Ridiculous Amenity Alert: 510 Madison Gets Wet

  Published: September 19, 2007, 1:10 pm

  Tags: Commercial Real Estate, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay

  at 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan and expected to be completed next summer, will have not only a health club just for tenants but also a 20-yard-long swimming pool.Perfect. As if the stock and finance worlds weren't already full of bullshit macho posturing, Harry Macklowe had to go and add a locker room and partial nudity. Let the

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• Solow's East River Waterfront Moves Forward

  Published: September 19, 2007, 9:11 am

  Tags: Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Real Estate Development, Urban Planning

  of getting his massive East River hole-in-the-ground filled with the mixed-use towers we all know and love. The Sun reports that a Community Board hearing is scheduled tomorrow for the First Avenue development plans, and it's no surprise that since this is what could be the biggest privately owned piece of developable land in Manhattan,

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• It Happened One Weekend: Beaver's Big Sell & Much More

  Published: September 24, 2007, 8:45 am

  Tags: Manhattan Financial District Wall St Battery Park City, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Manhattan Upper West Side Columbus Circle, Market Analysis, Real Estate Sold, Urban Planning

  it is, as long as it's Manhattan. See: Australian guy at 111 CPN. [Big Deal/Josh Barbanel] 2) Uh-oh, is Mortgage Meltdown '07 finally creeping into Manhattan? The hardest hit so far: "New Yorkers with short credit histories and, interestingly, professionals who buy apartments with small down payments and nearly 100 percent financing and

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• Curbed PriceSpotter: Long & Lean in Turtle Bay

  Published: September 26, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Real Estate For Sale

  PriceSpotter is Curbed's asking price guessing game. We give you some details and pictures of an apartment listing, you take a crack at the price in the comments. Tomorrow we reveal the answer. What/Where: 1BR, 1BA condop on 46th Street btwn First/Second Square Feet: 950 Maintenance: $1372.17 The Skinny: That extra seventeen cents must go a

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• PriceSpotter Big Reveal: Long & Lean in Turtle Bay

  Published: September 27, 2007, 2:59 pm

  Tags: Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Real Estate For Sale

  Location: 310 East 46th Street Asking: $925,000 Quite the response this week! And would you believe that someone guessed the identity of the building—Turtle Bay Towers—way before someone nailed the price? After a wild bidding battle, commemter #39, homeskool, was the winner. Homeskool's train of thought: "Ceiling height commands an

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• On the Racked: Marc Jacobs W. Village Takeover, Big Names Avoid Plaza, Yawns Over Kors in Soho, More

  Published: October 4, 2007, 1:50 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn, Manhattan Greenwich Village, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Manhattan Soho, Racked

  blocks in the city." 2) Midtown: The redone Plaza is having a hard time signing big names "that many associate with luxury retail (Gucci, Prada, Burberry, Hermès, etc)." Only 65% of the retail space in the building has been claimed. 3) Soho: The Prince Street institution Jerry's is gone, which may be one reason there are yawns about

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• The Changing Face of Gum Sales: Underwhelming

  Published: October 5, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: City Life, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay

  Commercial broker Bob Egan snapped these photos of one of those newfangled futuristic newsstands. This one was just installed at Madison Avenue and 42nd Street, and we're a little bummed that they don't quite appear to be as pimp-my-newsstand as initially promised. However, the guys in them look much less likely to get killed, so there's a plus.

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• Rumblings & Bumblings: Growing on Graham, One Ten 3rd's New Buddy, More

  Published: October 9, 2007, 4:12 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Williamsburg, Manhattan East Village, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Manhattan Midtown West Times Square, Real Estate Development, Real Estate Miscellany, Rumblings Bumblings

  seen on Flickr/jinxbkny. 2) East Village: Over near the newest East Village tower comes word of another: Any ideas what's going on at the SE corner of 14th St and 3rd Ave? The bodega is moving down the block and the other businesses in the building have closed. DOB website says it's going to be an 18 floor residential building, shocking I know,

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• Jolie-Pitts Plunking Down Big Money for Waldorf Digs

  Published: October 9, 2007, 11:15 am

  Tags: Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Real Estate For Rent, Real Estate Miscellany

  Waldorf Astoria compound on East 50th Street. The price on the 6,000sf, five-bedroom spread? Oh, about $100,000/month. Keil is already speculating that Pitt's downtown style might not mesh with the building's dress code, but we're thinking that all the ambassadors' wives and mistresses holed up in the Towers probably won't be complaining. ·

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• Rumblings & Bumblings Responses: Miss Ya, Marble; Gourmet's Goodbye; Library 101

  Published: October 11, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Williamsburg, Manhattan East Village, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Manhattan Midtown West Times Square, Real Estate Miscellany, Rumblings Bumblings

  both the Donnell and the Mid-Manhattan. A Mid-Manhattan lending library will presumably be stuffed somewhere in the 42nd Street building. Since the Mid-Manhattan Library contains five large floors of open stacks, that's a lot of stuffing. Historical note: As I recall, the Mid-Manhattan Library opened in 1982; before that, a lending library

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• Plaza Suites Revealed: Please Let Us Crap Here

  Published: October 19, 2007, 1:57 pm

  Tags: Design Shelter, Hotels, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Real Estate Development

  [Photos by Hillary Launey] A first glimpse inside the renovated Plaza Hotel & Residences suites? Uh, yeah, we'll bite. Point Click Home got inside the ol' landmark, and now we have a better idea of what all those CEOs and foreign billionaires are buying into. Make sure you click through the little story so you can check out the slideshow (with

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• Celebrity Real Estate Wrap: Cats Scratch Fever, Parker Posey Breaks Our Heart, More

  Published: October 22, 2007, 10:09 am

  Tags: Manhattan East Village, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Manhattan Midtown West Times Square, Manhattan West Village, Real Estate Sold

  3) Sticking a fork into the East Village once and for all, neighborhood icon Parker Posey has listed her East 10th Street co-op for $1.1 million, and it may already be sold. The building also houses Chloe Sevigny and James Iha, who—when combined—almost have as much talent as that little dog Posey is always seen walking. A dark day

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