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Brighten Dark Days: NYC apartments with skylights from $595K

By CityRealty Staff | From Great Listings Monday, November 4, 2024

Two days before a presidential election that has filled many with anxiety about the future, Sunday, November 3 marked the end of Daylight Saving Time in the Northern Hemisphere. While this allows for easier starts in the mornings thanks to earlier sunrises, it does mean sunsets before 5:00 p.m. ...

Apartments for $1M or less along the New York City Marathon route

By CityRealty Staff | From Great Listings Monday, November 4, 2024

On Sunday, November 3, 2024, New York City saw its 53rd annual marathon, an energetic and joyful prelude to this week's more serious races at the polls. The 2024 TCS New York City Marathon was a record-breaking event, with 55,646 finishers completing the iconic 26.2-mile course through the five b...

Nearly $400M in Manhattan contracts signed ahead of Election Day; Record-breaking Greenpoint penthouse deal at The Huron

By CityRealty Staff | From Future New York Monday, November 4, 2024

In presidential election years, some buyers and sellers are skittish about whether they should take the plunge now or wait until they know who the next president is going to be. But in the lead-up months to the 2024 presidential election, luxury properties in Manhattan have experienced what Fox B...

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By CityRealty Staff | From Monthly Market Reports Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Peak Fall in NYC: New listings with park views from $749K

By CityRealty Staff | From Great Listings Saturday, November 2, 2024

As we enter November, New York City is experiencing peak and near-peak fall foliage. Days are growing shorter, and daylight saving time will take effect this Sunday, November 3, when clocks will turn back one hour. Another fall tradition that New Yorkers look forward to is the NYC Marathon. Altho...

Best new development condos with high-floor amenities and skyline views

By Michelle Sinclair Colman | From Future New York Friday, November 1, 2024

The old adage of the value of real estate as “location, location, location” does not hold the same weight in New York City as it used to. Past no-go zones of previous decades are long gone and neighborhoods that used to be on the edge are now shiny and desirable--think Hudson Yards, Alphabet City...

NYC apartments with intimate sunken living rooms

By CityRealty Staff | From Get To Know Thursday, October 31, 2024

Sunken living rooms are a distinctive feature in many New York apartments, with origins dating back to 1927 when Kansas-born architect Bruce Goff introduced the idea in an Art Deco-style house with a “conversation pit.” This design element, which had never been seen before, quickly gained popular...

Keeping the witches at bay: How finials add drama —and deterrence— to New York’s skyline

By CityRealty Staff | From Future New York Thursday, October 31, 2024

Tall and slender, finials are employed in architecture to add drama to the edges or tops of buildings. Imagine a spear sticking straight up out of the ground, or an uncarved totem pole, or even a periscope without a twist at the top. They are the exclamation points of architecture!

21 fixer uppers include a nearly 7,000-SF SoHo penthouse ready for transformation

By CityRealty Staff | From Great Listings Thursday, October 31, 2024

During spooky season, creaking floorboards and ominous shadows as a result of poor lighting are commonplace in staged haunted houses. But in some fixer upper homes, such features are in place beyond Halloween night. Some of these homes need repairs simply to be made inhabitable — see a recently a...

Behind the Calvert Collection: Bruce Henderson on selling value in Prospect Lefferts Gardens

By Ondel Hylton | From Future New York Wednesday, October 30, 2024

The Calvert Villas is a six-story, ten-unit boutique condominium located on a tree-lined block at 624 New York Avenue in Brooklyn's Prospect Lefferts Gardens. The building is part of a two-building development called The Calvert Collection, designed by Palette Architecture and developed by Kings...

Manhattan Sales: Over $350M in sales includes former Times publisher's UWS penthouse; Financier takes loss on Park Avenue co-op

By CityRealty Staff | From Future New York Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Manhattan Sales: For the week ending October 25, 2024, $333,168,510 worth of transactions across 184 condo, condop, and cooperative deals were recorded 95 condo sales came to an aggregate price of $194,495,769 Four condop sales came to an aggregate price of $9,928,241 85 co-op sales came to...

Price Cuts: "Star Wars" actor Oscar Isaac trims price of Brooklyn penthouse; Price reductions in Midtown East

By CityRealty Staff | From Future New York Wednesday, October 30, 2024

In the wake of a 2017 rezoning, Midtown East has experienced a residential building boom of new development condominiums. These homes are located in excellent proximity to Midtown offices, public transportation, and popular restaurants and retail, but are situated so as to offer some respite from...

Three new Upper West Side condo conversions offer distinct takes on luxury living

By CityRealty Staff | From Future New York Tuesday, October 29, 2024

With early voting underway and Election Day fast approaching on November 5, 2024, voters are preparing to choose between two presidential candidates with fundamentally opposed visions on nearly every issue. While the national stage is set for major decisions, the Upper West Side has its own intr...