Architect’s Chelsea Two-Bedroom With Custom Everything (Down to the Electrical Outlets) Asks $1.25M François Dischinger The meticulously renovated apartment features a huge living room with a wall of built-in bookshelves. Price: $1,250,000Specs: 2 beds, 1 bath, 755 square feet Street view: A one-way street lined with linden, pin oak, and ginkgo trees, as well as townhouses and five-to-seven-story buildings with façades ranging from red, white, and gray brick to brownstone and limestone Closest train: A/C/E at 23rd Street and 1/2…
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Community Gardens As Classrooms, Love on the Gowanus Canal, and Other News
Community Gardens As Classrooms, Love on the Gowanus Canal, and Other News Kris Wong/Getty Images Here’s everything that’s been happening around the city this week. Community Gardens As Classrooms The de Blasio administration finally unveiled an “outdoor-learning plan” this week that would allow NYC schools to hold classes in parks and other public spaces. Clarisa James, who runs an education nonprofit, tells the Queens Daily Eagle that the city should consider using the hundreds of community gardens across the five…
Unless the State Intervenes, New York’s ‘Eviction Floodgates’ Will Open on October 1
Unless the State Intervenes, New York’s ‘Eviction Floodgates’ Will Open on October 1 The Office of Court Administration doesn’t plan to extend the eviction moratorium beyond October. | Scott Heins/Getty Images “We’re going to have to muster the political will to dream big on our solutions.” New York’s court system has been extending the pause on evictions for months, kicking the can down the road. But now the state Office of Court Administration (OCA) intends to put a stop to…
One-Bedroom With Massive Casement Windows in Tudor City Asks $779K
One-Bedroom With Massive Casement Windows in Tudor City Asks $779K Photos: Virtual Space/Courtesy of Donald Killinger, Dwell Residential The co-op apartment has ten-foot ceilings, garden views, and a wood-burning fireplace. Price: $779,000 Location: Tudor City, Manhattan Tudor City, the historic 1920s enclave in Midtown East, has been called “a city within a city” for its somewhat secluded location on a hill and its two landscaped parks. This apartment at 333 East 41st Street is on the top floor of Prospect…
As New York Hurtles Toward an Eviction Crisis, These Are the Tenants Most at Risk
As New York Hurtles Toward an Eviction Crisis, These Are the Tenants Most at Risk Tenants at a Bushwick protest call on the state to cancel rent. | Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images Just six weeks to go before the first 14,500 get the boot. Thousands more are right behind them, unable to pay their rent. Even before the pandemic hit, Enrique Figueroa and his 8-year-old daughter were in a housing crisis. The 34-year-old single father had been renting a…
Windsor Terrace Two-Bedroom With Plentiful Storage, Steps From Prospect Park, Asks $849K
Windsor Terrace Two-Bedroom With Plentiful Storage, Steps From Prospect Park, Asks $849K Photos: Allyson Lubow/Courtesy of the Corcoran Group The renovated apartment comes with hardwood floors and an in-unit washer-dryer. Price: $849,000 Location: Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn This two-bedroom co-op, which sits on the second floor of the four-story prewar walk-up at 1149 Prospect Avenue, is a mere one block away from Prospect Park — more specifically, the southwestern edge that contains the Vanderbilt Playground, which has sprinklers, a giant geodesic…
Harlem Brownstone With Ornate Fireplaces and Soapstone Counters Asks $4.65M
Harlem Brownstone With Ornate Fireplaces and Soapstone Counters Asks $4.65M The loft-like third floor living area features a cast-iron support column, wood-burning fireplace, and wide-plank cork floors. | Daniel Wang There’s also a La Cornue range and original mahogany banister. Price: $4,695,000Specs: 7 beds, 5 baths, 4,720 square feet, 0.04 acres Street view: A one-way street with a landmark Victorian Gothic Revival church taking up most of the northern side, the rest occupied by brownstones and apartment buildingsClosest train: 2/3…
What’s Really Happening at Homeless Shelters on the Upper West Side
What’s Really Happening at Homeless Shelters on the Upper West Side Lev Radin/Pacific Press/Shutterstock Contrary to what tabloid stories might have you believe, many neighbors welcome the homeless residents staying in hotels temporarily. On August 11, the Upper West Side seemed as normal as any neighborhood in New York during the fifth month of a pandemic. Pedestrians wearing masks walked along West 79th Street, while people enjoyed food at the elegant street-side tables setup outside the French bistro Nice Matin.…
New York Renters Cannot Be Evicted Until at Least October
New York Renters Cannot Be Evicted Until at Least October Housing activists gathered in Crown heights to protest alleged tenant harassment and call on the state to cancel rent. | Scott Heins/Getty Images New court guidance gives residential tenants a two month reprieve from eviction. Seven days after a pause on evictions expired in New York, the state court system has extended a moratorium through October 1 for residential tenants, allowing thousands of renters at acute risk of eviction to…
A Non-Obvious Outdoor Guide to New York
A Non-Obvious Outdoor Guide to New York Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New York City’s third-largest park at over 1,000 acres, has attracted runners with it cross-country trails for more than a century. | Jonathan Elderfield/AP/Shutterstock From foraging to beekeeping. This summer, the city’s more familiar outdoor spaces — Prospect Park, the Hudson River Greenway — are particularly crowded. Fortunately, there are plenty of lesser-known spots and activities readily available — whether you’re looking for a reprieve from your…