Two-Bedroom Penthouse on West End Avenue With 3,000 Square Feet of Terrace Asks $2.8M Compass / Martin Eiden Team A solarium further blurs the line between indoors and outdoors. Price: $2,775,000Specs: 2 beds, 2 baths, 1,400 square feet (interior), 2,900 square feet (exterior) Street view: A two-way, four-lane road (closed to trucks except for local drop-offs) with wide sidewalks next to mostly prewar buildings over 12 stories tall; a brick, five-story Dutch Renaissance Revival building, housing a public school, is…
A Sidewalk ‘Sleep-Out’ in Support of the Homeless on the UWS, Weed-Eating Goats, Fairy Doors in Queens, and Other News
A Sidewalk ‘Sleep-Out’ in Support of the Homeless on the UWS, Weed-Eating Goats, Fairy Doors in Queens, and Other News mifl68/Flickr Here’s some of what happened around town this week. Upper West Siders Hold Sleep-Out to Support Temporary Homeless Neighbors A group of Upper West Siders gathered on the sidewalk of the Lucerne Hotel on West 79th Street last Saturday night for a “sleep-out” and art protest in support of the temporary homeless residents staying there and in two other…
What’s the Trump Eviction Moratorium All About?
What’s the Trump Eviction Moratorium All About? Tenants rallied for eviction relief outside of Bronx housing court last month. | Angela Weiss/Getty Images A broadly popular if calculated new policy and how it will work. In a surprisingly aggressive relief measure unveiled late Tuesday afternoon, the Trump administration announced a sweeping ban on evictions of tenants who are unable to pay rent because of the coronavirus crisis. Starting this Friday, September 4, it will temporarily stop millions of U.S. renters…
That Infamous Trio of Two Bridges Megatowers Inches Toward Construction
That Infamous Trio of Two Bridges Megatowers Inches Toward Construction One Manhattan Square looms over the Two Bridges waterfront. | Max Touhey Three new luxury skyscrapers — one set to be 100 stories tall — got the go-ahead from an appeals court, but two more lawsuits are pending. The middle- and lower-income Lower East Side neighborhood known as Two Bridges is one step closer to becoming home to three new enormous waterfront apartment towers 70 to 100 stories high. They’d…
Architect’s Chelsea Two-Bedroom With Custom Everything (Down to the Electrical Outlets) Asks $1.25M
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…
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…