New York

New York Home Makes For a Great Joke With a President, a Mermaid and a Rock Star

By Mimi Perez / February 5, 2025 /

“A president, a mermaid, and a rock star walk into a bar …” Actually they would walk into the house featured in this week’s column but let me tell you, a bar is a great second choice because this house is next to the station where the Crazytown Express makes daily stops. Yeah baby, let…

Report: Housing Markets in California, New Jersey, and Illinois Have Elevated Risk of Downturns in Second Quarter of 2024

By April Towery / September 9, 2024 /

There’s good news and bad news. The good news is Dallas isn’t mentioned in the latest Special Housing Risk Report from ATTOM Data Solutions. The bad news is there’s still a nationwide housing crisis.  In a report released Thursday, ATTOM found that California, New Jersey, and Illinois once again had the highest concentrations of the…

Live Luxe (and Like a Roy) in this Swanky NYC Penthouse

By Elaine Raffel / April 23, 2023 /

Ever wonder what it would be like to live like a Roy, the conniving, filthy rich “Succession” clan we love to hate? Rest assured, there’d be plenty of drama. But if the swanky Manhattan penthouse—owned in the series by brother Kendall (Jeremy Scott)—is part of the deal, count us in.

Harlan Crow Continues Legacy of Exclusivity at Camp Topridge in New York’s Adirondacks

By Mimi Perez / April 18, 2023 /

In the 1990s, the makers of Pace Picante Sauce came up with a brilliant advertising campaign. Cowboys sitting around a campfire asked Cookie for more picante sauce. Having run out of Pace Picante Sauce, Cookie hands them a jar of sauce made in New York City. The cowboys get upset and threaten to hang ol’…

Fashion Icon Hamish Bowles Lists His Supremely Stylish NYC Co-Op

By Elaine Raffel / December 18, 2022 /

I was intrigued when the New York Times broke the news that Hamish Bowles’ Ninth Street Greenwich Village co-op was on the market. Built in the mid-1920s, the 1,400-square-foot, two bedroom, two bath prewar duplex still sports nearly all its original architectural detailing.