Month: October 2019

Halloween is the time of year where you pay to get scared at a haunted house. But actually living in a real one is another story. Given the pop-culture pervasiveness of horrifying tales of paranormal properties like “The Amityville Horror” and “The Conjuring,” buyers tend to shy away from such purchases. In fact, people are

The Upper East Side estate of style icon Lee Radziwill, Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s late sister, has sold for $4.25 million, according to city records. Lee RadziwillBruce Glikas/FilmMagic The 15th-floor home, at 160 E. 72nd St., first went on the market priced at $5.7 million earlier this year. The buyer is metals exec Grant Quasha, chief

Star swimsuit designer Melissa Odabash and her actress turned jewelry designer sister Megan Odabash are listing their Sag Harbor home for $2.4 million. Melissa’s swimsuits are sold in luxury department stores around the world while Megan’s jewelry has been worn on stars like Christie Brinkley, Cameron Diaz, Halle Berry, Liv Tyler, Salma Hayek and Angelina

Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence, who married art gallerist Cooke Maroney earlier this month in Newport, RI, has been trying to offload an Upper East Side penthouse she bought in 2016, Gimme Shelter has learned. Yes, JLaw owns a flashy condo at celeb-packed 443 Greenwich St., the former bookbinding factory in Tribeca. But the “Hunger Games”

A Millan House duplex returned to market this week for $6.25 million — up from its $5.9 million asking price earlier this month. The three-bedroom, 3½ bathroom home was formerly owned by real estate heiress/architect/socialite Serena Rhinelander Stewart, whose grandfather William Rhinelander Stewart Sr. commissioned architect Stanford White to design Washington Square Park’s arch. She

A lavish three-level penthouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side — a lair with some star history, no less — is coming back to the market for $50 million after selling just two years ago. Located in the high-profile San Remo, the Wall Street Journal reports the home’s last owner was actress Demi Moore, who sold

News anchor Ernie Anastos has listed his home in Armonk, New York, for $1.97 million. The custom-built, French Normandy-style colonial is 6,110 square feet and sits on 1.94 acres. Ernie AnastosJohn Lamparski/WireImage It comes with four bedrooms and 5-1/2 bathrooms — and a massive recreation area and media room with a 96-inch TV, natch, and

It’s a cube with curb appeal. When the auction house Phillips moves to its new headquarters at the base of skyscraping residential tower 432 Park Ave., it will have space on East 57th Street and Park Avenue in two glass cubes. Architect Markus Dochantschi of studio MDA has been commissioned to design the light-flooded, glass-walled

Standing on 28th Street and Fifth Avenue, Alex Ohebshalom is clad in a trendy dark suit and immaculate shoes, appropriate for a real estate scion whose family, through Empire Management, has owned a 150-year-old building on the northwest corner for more than four decades. But on this day, his bright orange vest and gold construction

The Clic Gallery is opening a third Manhattan location at 140 West Broadway, with 4,000 square feet covering the ground and lower level of the small building. Eric Le Goff and James Downey of Cushman & Wakefield represented Clic Gallery in the 10-year lease. C&W’s Heather Sockol and Alan Napack represented the ownership, which had

Rockefeller Plaza is on a roll. Citrin Cooperman is the latest firm to plant its flag at 50 Rockefeller Plaza. The accounting firm will expand and move to 110,742 square feet on a portion of the second floor along with the entire third and fourth floors. It is currently located in nearly 90,000 square feet

Paramount held up putting 900 Third Ave. on the sales market until a 17,346-square-foot lease for Handelsbanken to relocate its offices to the 17th floor was completed. The 598,903-square-foot office building at 900 Third sits on the western blockfront between East 53rd and 54th streets. As Between the Bricks advised last week, the 36-story building

In the Financial District, two financial firms — one women-owned, the other minority-owned — are merging and expanding. Now the nation’s No. 1 women-owned and minority-owned investment bank — rebranded as Siebert Williams Shank & Co. — is the result of the merger between the women-owned public finance firm Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co. and

Here’s a NYC real estate anomaly: a rent reduction. A New York Public Library branch in Soho has signed a new lease that lowers its rent by more than 50% below what it negotiated during the run-up to the financial crisis. Located since 2007 at 10 Jersey St. in the base of 285 Lafayette St.,

Don’t call it a mall. Triple Five Group, developer of the $5 billion American Dream at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, wants the attraction next to Giants stadium known as an “entertainment center.” And, by golly, is it wildly entertaining. While the center’s Nickelodeon Universe theme park opened Oct. 25 to sold-out crowds, remaining attractions

Titanic-sized tenants are circling the newest office buildings in anticipation of what may be a leasing feeding frenzy among the “FAANGs”: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google. The tech titans have been hovering around the Hudson Yards area, where targeted buildings include the megaproject’s 30 and 50 Hudson Yards, the Spiral, Manhattan West, Vornado’s reimagined

Now that Nordstrom has opened its spectacular, seven-story women’s department store at 225 W. 57th St. just as Barneys appears near-dead, could the fashion scene soon migrate four long blocks west from Madison Avenue? The question’s on the minds of retail and real estate insiders, who hope Nordstrom will draw more luxury shops — or

This is not entirely unexpected. Real Housewives of New York is filming right now, minus one melodramatic humanitarian. Yes, viewers will need to find the strength to move on without Bethenny Frankel dominating every scene she is in. You won’t find Luann de Lesseps crying in the corner over the loss of Bethenny. Especially after

The Howard Hughes Corp.’s South Street Seaport project isn’t for sale — for now. The complex at South Street and Fulton Street, now known as the Seaport District, is not on a $20 billion list of US “non-core” assets that publicly traded Hughes plans to unload within 18 months. The news surprised analysts, who expected

The Essex Crossing complex just achieved a financial milestone and looks forward to a food frenzy in the next few weeks as well. Developer Delancey Street Associates has nailed down $215 million in permanent financing for The Essex, the 26-story mixed-use building at 125 Delancey St. The loan is via JPMorgan Chase, with participation by

Two Trees Management is ready to rock Ten Grand St., the first commercial building at its Domino Sugar Factory site on the Williamsburg East River waterfront. Leasing is underway at the 24-story, 150,000-square-foot building that’s connected to One South First, the second apartment building at Domino, which opened in September. Ten Grand consists mostly of

Everyone has their friends’ group. You might even rent a summer house together. But what if that vacation could last forever? That’s what six pals in Tennessee wanted — so they built a private compound where they live with their families. The six couples, friends since high school, purchased 32 acres of farmland, split it

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Fist video from viking-mjod.no. Today we make a Pyment – a mead made from grapejuice and honey.