Atari is opening a chain of hotels. The video game pioneer — whose classic titles included “Pong,” “Asteroids” and “RollerCoaster Tycoon” — announced this week that its first hotel will break ground this spring in Phoenix. The video game-themed hotels will “level up hotel entertainment with fully immersive experiences for every age and gaming ability”
Month: January 2020
Actress Michelle Williams and her fiancé Tommy Kail just made a near record-setting real estate play in Brooklyn. Public real estate records first spotted by The Wall Street Journal show that Williams, who is pregnant and newly engaged to “Hamilton” director Kail, dropped $10.8 million on a townhouse in Brooklyn Heights — one of the
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has just paid $4.37 million for two adjacent apartments on the Upper East Side in an off-market deal. The posh pads are on the 24th floor of The Concorde, at 220 E. 65th St., according to city property records. In September, Spitzer and his fiancee Roxana Girand were preparing to buy
Compound, a real estate investment app founded by CEO Janine Yorio, is in contract to buy a one-bedroom unit at the Faena House condo in Miami Beach for $2.6 million. The purchaser is technically many of Compound’s shareholder members, all of whom will own a percent of the apartment, which they are buying as an
Late Fox News CEO Roger Ailes once owned an extravagant home at 1049 Fifth Ave. Vanessa Trump’s mother, Bonnie Kay Haydon, paid Ailes’ widow, Elizabeth, $6.4 million in cash for the apartment back in 2018, the year that Vanessa filed for divorce from President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. Haydon has now put the
Top architect Eran Chen, founding principal of ODA Architecture, and his wife Dafna just bought a $6 million full-floor loft in Tribeca, according to city property records. ODA, which is NYC based with projects in the city and around the world, is known for its boxy, geometric style, including the cantilevered 100 Norfolk condo on
In this big city, it’s the little things that count. Especially for some lucky New Yorkers, who are surrounded by familiar faces each time they return home. These groups of locals all reside in the same city buildings — where, typically, neighbors barely speak, let alone share tight-knit relationships. But these folks share addresses with
Netflix exec Cindy Holland has just dropped the price of her West Village townhouse at 58 Downing St. to $5.59 million — down from its $5.85 million asking price in October. Holland recently plunked down $14.1 million for 23 Perry St., a different West Village townhouse that was once owned by cookbook author, food critic
Not all housewarming gifts are welcome. The happy buyer of a home in Maryland got more than they bargained for when they discovered the corpse of the previous owner still inside. The new owner bought the house, on Upland Avenue in District Heights, at a foreclosure auction but only discovered the body of the 39-year-old
Another luxury jewelry brand is coming to East 57th Street’s fast-reviving shopping zone — but the exact name’s a mystery. Richemont, the Switzerland-based parent of jewelry and fashion brands including Cartier, Piaget, Buccellati, Van Cleef & Arpels and Dunhill, has signed a major new lease for a showplace store at 30 E. 57th St. The
The controversial Key Food residential project in Park Slope is going to developer Billy Macklowe and investor David Welsh as his partner. Sources said the site is now in contract for less than $65 million, but buyers Macklowe and Welsh will spend around another $140 million on demolition and construction. No timing was available but
The Japanese fashion house Kenzo is opening a new store in Soho at the southwest corner of Grand and Mercer streets. Kenzo has leased 3,000 square feet at 107 Grand St., which is less than half the former 7,000-square-foot Ted Baker space. The store includes nearly all of the red building’s frontage along Grand and
Corcoran has gobbled up its sister real estate agency Citi Habitats. Both real estate brands are owned by Realogy, but the merger means the end of the Citi Habitats brand, known for its big Brooklyn presence. “We knew at some point that we’d put the brands together and that time is now. It made sense,”
Movie-lovers who’ve been waiting patiently for a huge Alamo Drafthouse cinema complex at 28 Liberty St. will have to wait a few months more. We first reported in 2017 that the luxury movie house chain had signed a 40,000-square-foot lease with landlord Fosun and would open the theaters in 2018. Later reports claimed it would
It’s battle stations at 375 Park Ave., aka the Seagram Building. Aby Rosen’s RFR Realty is gearing up to replace its largest tenant, Wells Fargo, which moved its last employees out of 250,000 square feet last week. The bank is moving its investment banking and capital markets operations into a half-million square-foot office condo it
LCOR found a buyer for its retail condominium at 25 Broad St., the landmark former office property that the developer converted mostly to luxury condo apartments. Regal Acquisitions, a privately-held real estate investment firm, paid $10.5 million for the 20,000- square-foot storefronts. The largest is occupied by Bobby Van’s steakhouse, where its lease expires in
Savvy landlords of older Midtown buildings work closely with valued tenants to keep them on board. The Sapir Organization plans to extensively renovate floors 15 to 22 at 260 Madison Ave., home to law firm McLaughlin & Stern — which just renewed on 112,000 square feet. Rents in the tower are in the low-to-mid $60s
Staggered by the imminent Barneys shutdown and recent closings of many smaller boutiques, Midtown’s fanciest shopping zone — at least part of it — is getting a sudden burst of urgently needed energy. Both Fendi and Berluti have signed retail leases at Vornado’s 595 Madison Ave. at 57th Street, The Post has learned. The Art
Golden State Warriors star Stephen “Steph” Curry and his wife, Ayesha, have snapped up an apartment in San Francisco’s new Four Seasons Private Residences, according to a source with knowledge of the deal. It’s not clear when the NBA point guard bought the condo, but he’s thought to have paid just under $8 million for
Luxury leather goods merchant Coach has abruptly shuttered its three-level boutique at Madison Avenue and East 57th Street — the latest blow to the fabled but troubled shopping district, which continues to hemorrhage some of its most celebrated stores. The 6,000 square-foot Coach emporium at 595 Madison Ave. had been at the prime corner for
This West Village townhouse formerly owned by cookbook author and food critic Katie Lee, who is also Billy Joel’s ex-wife, has sold for $14.1 million, according to city property records. The last asking price for the property, located at 23 Perry St., was $15.99 million. The seller was Wes Edens, co-founder of Fortress Investment Group
A penthouse in Chinatown that singer Rihanna rented is back on the market for $15.95 million. The duplex unit at 129 Lafayette St. has been for sale on and off since 2009, according to StreetEasy, and at one point asked as much as $18.75 million. The singer and cosmetics mogul lived here starting in 2013,
Hip-hop mogul Sean Combs (better known as “Diddy” or, before that, “Puff Daddy”) heads a business empire that ranges from music to fashion and vodka. Lesser known, perhaps, is the fact that he once tried to develop an Upper East Side megamansion. Last asking $26.5 million, the well-located building, at 807 Park Ave., just sold
You may be able to recite every single Luke Skywalker line in the “Star Wars” series, but does your basement look like a galaxy far, far away? A Los Angeles mansion has hit the market for $26.5 million, featuring a basement stocked with incredible works inspired by the popular films, including life-size figures of Darth
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