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• Not Your Development Du Jour: The Affluenza

  Published: September 13, 2007, 3:02 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Bushwick, Brooklyn Williamsburg, Real Estate Miscellany

  A tipster spotted this genius piece of work on the corner of Graham Avenue and Grand Street in Williamsburg. Don't worry, we called and left a message. We don't want to miss out on this amazing investment opportunity! But is it a Karl Fischer?

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• Arris Loft's Phantom Menace

  Published: September 13, 2007, 10:15 am

  Tags: City Life, Queens Long Island City, Real Estate Miscellany

  is the hooker crisis all too real. Drama! Luckily, a 30-year LICer (or so he claims) chimed in to clarify the situation for us. First, it is a well known fact that hookers hang out at the subway station near Arris. They try to get the foot traffic and the cars coming off 59th st bridge. However, this has died down a bit over the years

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• Sunset Park: This is What Gentrification Sounds Like

  Published: September 13, 2007, 9:32 am

  Tags: Brooklyn Park Slope, Brooklyn Sunset Park, Real Estate Miscellany

  The Sun puts the spotlight on Sunset Park today, billing it as a cheaper alternative to somewhat nearby Park Slope, and focusing on all the development going on in the neighborhood. This includes 420 42nd Street, a controversial building that even has its own YouTube protest video (right). So the neighborhood is changing, and never is that more

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• Newsflash: More New Yorkers Rent Than Own

  Published: September 12, 2007, 10:50 am

  Tags: Real Estate Miscellany

  This probably comes under the heading of "things you already know," but it's always good to have statistical backing: Way fewer people in New York City own property than people elsewhere in the USA. More than two-thirds (67.3 percent) of single family homes, coops and condos around the country are occupied by owners. The number in New York City,

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• Backyard Bondage: Grillin' and Chillin' at 40 Bond

  Published: September 13, 2007, 5:14 pm

  Tags: Manhattan Noho Central Village, Real Estate Miscellany

  In a week full of Bond Street updates, the unveiling via the Curbed Photo Pool of 40 Bond's backyards-in-the-making has to take the cake, at least until we publish covert photos of Ian Schrager brunching on the penthouse balcony of rival 48 Bond (we kid!). Much props go out to Flickr user Kikimonkey, who adds, "note the sweet grills." Indeed!

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• Celebrity Real Estate Wrap: Ricky Signs, Vera Sells, Mariah Rents

  Published: September 17, 2007, 10:10 am

  Tags: Manhattan Financial District Wall St Battery Park City, Manhattan Noho Central Village, Manhattan Soho, Manhattan Upper East Side, Real Estate Miscellany, Real Estate Sold

  just went to contract. [The Real Estate] 4) What good is an Insanity Palace without a little insanity? Mariah Carey has been renting a furnished two-bedroom condo at 15 Broad Street for a respectable $8,000 per month. [Keil] 5) The Real Deal looks at the "new rules of celebrity real estate," which is just a fun excuse to get brokers to share

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• It Happened One Weekend: Madison Ave. Re-do, Frenchie Goes FSBO, More

  Published: September 17, 2007, 9:53 am

  Tags: Manhattan Gramercy Flatiron District, Manhattan Inwood Washington Heights, Manhattan Murray Hill, Manhattan Upper West Side Columbus Circle, Real Estate Development, Real Estate For Sale, Real Estate Miscellany

  than his expanding New York real estate portfolio, but wow, it's interesting. We're talking underground circumcisions, Borat reviews and tons of cash. His former cohort Shaya Boymelgreen only gets referred to as "a partner" in one sentence. Talk about a diss. [NYT magazine] 5) Joyce Cohen follows up last week's angering tale of privilege with a

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• New York Takes Aim at Surging Market, Again

  Published: September 17, 2007, 10:47 am

  Tags: Brooklyn Bed Stuy, Brooklyn Bushwick, Market Analysis, Real Estate Miscellany

  New York magazine's annual real estate cover feature is about the bursting of the bubble, but this year the tone has been tweaked a little. Previously, it was accepted that the bubble had burst, and New York was piling on the scare tactics/offering tips on how to capitalize. This year, it is accepted that the bubble will burst, and New York is

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• Celebrity Real Estate Wrap: Ricky Signs, Vera Sells

  Published: September 17, 2007, 10:10 am

  Tags: Manhattan Financial District Wall St Battery Park City, Manhattan Noho Central Village, Manhattan Soho, Manhattan Upper East Side, Real Estate Miscellany, Real Estate Sold

  just went to contract. [The Real Estate] 4) What good is an Insanity Palace without a little insanity? Mariah Carey has been renting a furnished two-bedroom condo at 15 Broad Street for a respectable $8,000 per month. [Keil] 5) The Real Deal looks at the "new rules of celebrity real estate," which is just a fun excuse to get brokers to share

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• Your Morning Credit Crunch: Brooklyn Foreclosures Way Up

  Published: September 18, 2007, 9:41 am

  Tags: Brooklyn, Market Analysis, Real Estate Miscellany

  In a story that even Marty Markowitz would have trouble finding something positive about, Brooklyn appears to be the hardest hit borough in terms of foreclosures, the Post reports. F-words in August were up 30% over the same month last year, for a total of 1,032 filings. Over 10,000 homes are in pre-foreclosure, with another 1,300 headed to

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• One Ten 3rd Getting Taste of East Village Lifestyle

  Published: September 18, 2007, 5:27 pm

  Tags: City Life, Manhattan East Village, Real Estate Miscellany

  Now that the Toll Brothers' luxuryish One Ten 3rd has shirt-doffing residents who hate being barged in on by icky construction workers, it's good to see that the building is finally going the extra mile to fit in with its artsy East Village surroundings. Like, say, some graffiti on the front doors. It's a nice first try and we respect the

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• Lincoln Plaza Getting Mysterious Facelift

  Published: September 18, 2007, 4:11 pm

  Tags: City Life, Manhattan Upper West Side Columbus Circle, Real Estate Miscellany

  For those who stress over the future of privately-owned public spaces in this fair city, a new warning flag has gone up. David Dunlap writes on City Room that the Milstein-developed public space at 30 Lincoln Plaza is getting tweaked, but no one is quite sure what changes will be made to this fine collection of red brick and waterfalls (Est.

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• Reader Rant: 'Ruthlessly Priced Out of FiDi'

  Published: September 20, 2007, 1:45 pm

  Tags: Manhattan Financial District Wall St Battery Park City, Real Estate Miscellany

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• Seven-Star Luxury Via Williamsburg's Riviera Real Estate

  Published: September 21, 2007, 3:30 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Williamsburg, Real Estate Miscellany

  called, well, "Riviera Real Estate." The release says that "by commenting on the changing of the Williamsburg neighborhood through humor, we hope to bring up a subject that is on the minds of artists and long time residents of the neighborhood – the destruction of a one-time artists haven through the development of luxury condos." Oh,

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• Your Morning Credit Crunch: 'Neighborhoods are Wiped Out'

  Published: September 24, 2007, 10:10 am

  Tags: Queens, Real Estate Miscellany

  Would would a new week be without more stories about the implosion of mortgages? The New York Times leads off this morning with a lot of detail about Far Rockaway, where a lot of newly-built two- and three-family homes are sitting surrounded by plywood with no buyers. The new popularity of empty lots and boarded up new buildings is one of "the

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