New York City

Tin Roof. Rusted. The Love Shack That Will Set You Back $2K

By Adlene Neely Dealey / August 26, 2020 /

When you write about real estate for as long as I have written about real estate, you keep adding places to keep an eye on for amusing stories, especially when one is writing about the oddities in the industry. This week’s Wednesday WTF is a New York love shack, courtesy Reddit. My friends, if you…

Farm to Fork: Pendry Residences Natirar Embraces the Movement

By CandysDirt / September 8, 2019 /

The One Where They Turned Two Condos Into 18 Apartments

By Bethany Erickson / August 21, 2019 /

Everyone knows (or almost everyone) that living in an apartment can blow. If you are blissfully unaware of how bad apartment life can be, we applaud you on your foresight to be born into a family with a palatial mansion and zero desire to make you live on your own at a tender age. But…

The Retail Apocalypse Is Real in NYC: Is it Headed for Texas?

By Candy Evans / May 16, 2019 /

We were in Manhattan for Mother’s Day weekend, and I had the chance to walk both Madison and Fifth Avenues to about 80th Street, then back to our hotel window shopping with an occasional duck inside to shop. NYC was bustling as ever, Broadway was thriving, and Times Square was wall-to-wall.  But the retail! So…

On SecondShelters.com: Palatial Historical Upper East Side Townhome Back On Market

By Bethany Erickson / September 16, 2018 /

At first, it was believed to have been sold for a record $80 million in December, but Vincent Viola’s 20,000 square foot townhome on the Upper East Side appears to be back on the market — and this time the list price is $88 million. It’s unclear if Viola (who owns the NHL’s Florida Panthers,…