The Waldorf Astoria in New York City reopened in July after an eight-year, $2 billion restoration. Residents of its new luxury condominiums gain access to exclusive amenities such as the Empire Club. The business center and lounge features private offices, curated artwork, and 24-hour room service. At the Empire Club, a luxe business center and lounge open only to Waldorf Astoria residents, the hotel's 24/7 room service means you never have to label your lunch in the office fridge.
A few years ago, private-equity firm SC Hospitality took over a tennis club in the Hamptons and added pickleball and padel courts and a restaurant overseen by Billy Durney, the chef behind the upscale burger joint Red Hook Tavern. A number of new families joined, the club began hosting Sunday cookouts, and Daniel Haimovic, SC's chairman, started spending a lot of the summer there with his family, including his two elementary-school-age kids, who played tennis, padel, pickleball, and basketball at the club.
CB2's Land Use Committee voted against the proposal for the 27-story development, which would rise from a landmarked Fort Greene church. After more than a year of speculation about the future of the landmarked Hanson Place Central United Methodist Church in Fort Greene, plans are now clear: The owners want to use the church's shell as the base of a 27-story, 240-unit apartment tower that would rise beside the iconic Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower.
Last July, I got an email that changed my life overnight: I had been selected for a prestigious traineeship program at a Broadway theatre company. I had only a month to pack my bags, find an apartment, and move from Southern California to New York. For the last three years, I have lived alone as a resident assistant at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 10 a.m.: The NYC Planning Commission will meet regarding the following land use applications: 142 Flagg Place, 47 Farview Place SNAD Authorization, Jenna Lane - Modification, Praise Tabernacle, Queens CD 3 Walk to Park Site Selection / Acquisition, Brooklyn CD 5 Walk to Park Site Selection / Acquisition, AAMUP Follow-Up Action, Coney Island Business Improvement District. .
Developer Harry Macklowe said he wanted an "absolutely pure building" in 432 Park and tapped the Uruguayan modernist architect Rafael Viñoly to help execute that vision. On top of being one of the tallest and slimmest buildings in the world, the perfectly rectilinear tower would also be a stark, clean white. But that signature aesthetic, which apparently helped sell out the building's 125 units for more than $2.5 billion - A-Rod and Jennifer Lopez were among the early buyers - now appears to be the source of some major problems, per the Times.
The two-building complex faces the neighborhood's eponymous Sunset Park and was completed in 1927, according to the certificate of occupancy. The Sun Heights Building Corp. was behind the construction with architect Eric O. Homgren behind the design of the restrained yellow brick buildings with a hint of neo Classical ornament. Holmgren also designed the earliest Finnish co-operative buildings in the neighborhood, Alku and Alku Toinen.
The owner closed what was essentially a local monopoly because of what it termed "significant operating deficits in recent years." While the store will remain open to sell over-the-counter medications and other products and to keep running its soda fountain and lunch counter, prescriptions are being transferred to Southold Pharmacy on the mainland, inconvenient at the least for Shelter Island residents, especially its senior citizens.
Bespoke millwork, soaring ceilings, and light-filled spaces create an elegant, stately feel as you swan from room to room. Starting at the garden level, a wrought-iron gate takes you through a landscaped courtyard garden and into a marble vestibule. Just inside, the chef's kitchen sports a custom banquette and flows into the formal dining room, with hand-painted wallpaper and a wood-burning fireplace. French doors along one of the walls spill open to the red-brick rear garden, which includes mirrored trellises and a fireplace-warmed pergola.
Brooklyn's office market is carving out its own identity as companies and workers move away from Manhattan's pricier spaces, according to new data from JLL. Average asking rents in Brooklyn dropped 5.1% over the past year, now at $53.33 per square foot. But the report shows a sharp divide between high-end and mid-tier offices. Class A buildings, the newest spaces with modern amenities, are facing vacancies close to 25%.
At the intersection of the Hudson Square and SoHo neighborhoods, 10 Sullivan Street rises as a 16-story wedge that makes a respectful nod to one of New York's most celebrated architectural icons: the Flatiron Building. Its unusual shape is part boat prow, part clothing iron, thanks to a long, narrow triangular lot that tapers to a point at the southern end.
Tay Ladd watched " The Gilded Age," so she gets the old money vs. new money divide. The debate might be as old as New York. The TV show's characters covet storied old townhouses, while contemporary buildings are considered gauche. Ladd knows what side she's on. She prefers a newer "luxury" apartment building filled with communal amenities, like fitness classes or spas, that classic pre-war apartment buildings almost never have.
For under a million dollars, one can find all sorts of housing configurations: park- and subway-adjacent studios, one-bedrooms hidden in carriage houses or former shoe factories, and even the occasional true two-bedroom. We're combing the market for particularly spacious, nicely renovated, or otherwise worth-a-look apartments at various six-digit price points. This week, a two-bedroom corner unit in the Financial District and an East Village loft that's perfect for a live-work setup.
I am standing astride my bicycle, a sapling in a torrent of traffic, at the spot where Flatbush Avenue angles across Fulton Street. The light changes but my eye drifts up to the towers of Downtown Brooklyn silhouetted by the afternoon sun. Angry honks jolt me back to my task, and as I ride on, it occurs to me that this is how this new-growth forest of high-rises is best seen: in passing and under pressure.
