It will be springtime for Italy at 280 Park Ave., the office tower that was home to the short-lived revival of The Four Seasons restaurant. Brazil’s giant Fasano Hotel and Restaurant Group has signed a lease with landlords SL Green and Vornado to open a high-end Italian restaurant in the first half of 2020. The
Month: November 2019
Real Housewives of New Jersey stars Teresa Giudice and Joe Giudice have lived their life, for better or worse, in front of Bravo’s cameras. In 2014, the couple pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges and both served time in prison at camp. After finishing his 41-month stint in jail, Joe was taken into custody by
If you’re sick of paying too much in rent for a tiny New York City apartment, you move into a stone building in Sicily for free. The mayor of the town of Cammarata, Vincenzo Giambrone, is trying to save his town from population decline. He plans to do so by having local families who have
A millionaire Manhattan real-estate developer busted in September for allegedly giving his gorgeous brunette girlfriend a split lip now says she’s a violent gold digger who assaulted him. Michael Shah, head of Delshah Capital, filed a police complaint Thursday against Bhavana Chamoli, an aspiring actress and investment researcher for MIO Partners, Inc, accusing her of
Most homes for sale on Zillow are lucky to get even 100 pageviews over a few weeks. But a five-bedroom Michigan home has earned 36,000 pairs of eyeballs over the course of its three days on the real estate listings site. In one of the photos with the for-sale-by-owner listing asking $165,000 — which has
It seemed like a standard assignment for interior designer Purvi Padia: a 5,600-square-foot luxury loft in Tribeca, owned by a family with three small children. But the clients — both keen philanthropists — lobbed her an additional request: They wanted the common areas to do double duty, to function both as a cozy family hideaway
Timothy Haynes and Kevin Roberts, the founding partners of interior design firm Haynes-Roberts, are about to put their Soho loft on the market for $6.45 million. Their 2,900-square-foot, full-floor home at 15 Mercer St. is an ode to their design sensibility, which mixes antique finds with midcentury classics. Kevin Roberts and Tim HaynesPaul Porter/PatrickMcMullan.com The
A “reel” estate investment is now on the market for $7.51 million following a price drop and broker swap. The parlor floor of the townhouse at 108 Eighth Ave. in Park Slope was used for scenes in HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” and in the Martin Scorcese film “The Age of Innocence.” (The seller, we hear, liked
The Midtown home of the late Pierre Cossette, the Quebec native who famously produced the first Grammy Awards in 1971, has hit the market for $3.49 million. This is where Cossette, who died in 2009 at age 85 of heart failure, lived for 30 years with his now-widow, Tony-winning Broadway producer Mary Cossette. The two-bedroom
Top interior designer Shawn Henderson is in contract to sell his prewar co-op in the West Village It sailed right through a sluggish sales market: The one-bedroom unit at 791 Greenwich St. was on the market for just 15 days and had four offers over its $1.6 million asking price. Shawn HendersonGetty Images Not bad,
The hundreds of thousands of people who live along New York City’s 520 miles of waterfront have spent the seven years since Hurricane Sandy wondering whether the city is prepared for another wallop. So far, the answer seems to be: Not really. The city’s online Flood Hazard Mapper shows areas labeled “high risk” for flooding.
In a galaxy not so far, far away, “Star Wars” filmmaker George Lucas and his businesswoman wife Mellody Hobson scoped out a $26.99 million apartment at 432 Park Ave. The three-bedroom, 4½-bathroom pad at 432 Park — known for being, at 1,396 feet tall, the tallest completed residential building in the western hemisphere — comes
Accio nostalgia! Harry Potter fans now have the chance to rent the boy wizard’s fictional childhood home in real life. The latest in a string of novelty Airbnb listings — there was Downton Abbey, the Goodyear Blimp, Malibu Barbie’s Dreamhouse, even the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile — the real historic house was featured in the “Potter”
Martha Stewart’s meal-kit partner, Marley Spoon, is moving out of her quarters and into 519 Eighth Ave. on the southwest corner of West 36th Street. Marley Spoon has been located at the Starrett-Lehigh Building at 601 W. 26th St. at 12th Avenue in a 6,000-square-foot portion of the food doyenne’s ninth-floor offices. The meal kit
Pop-ups are hot — and they’re not just for selling stuff anymore. An upcoming exhibition created by a former Goldman Sachs exec that required a pop-up lease is raising money for an African children’s charity. The exhibit, “Life Living Life,” was organized by Michael Sloyer at 498 Broome St. and will feature photographs taken by
The city’s transfer tax revenue is already taking a hit from the sudden drop in apartment building sales. Property tax revenue, however, is unlikely to be affected for several years. And by then, Mayor Bill de Blasio will be gone, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo on his way out or running for a fourth term. “The
Perched on a barstool at the Beach Cafe, the decidedly typical Upper East Side haunt a few years back, my friend Shallon sneered, “I didn’t move 3,000 miles across the country to tell people I live in Brooklyn.” Tonight, I’m on the F train to Bergen Street station, hauling a trio of seafoam candles to
Actress Liv Tyler has been a fixture in the West Village for almost two decades. Now she has just sold her historic townhouse for $17.45 million in an off-market deal, according to city property records. Tyler bought the four-story townhouse, at 255 W. 11th St., in 2001 for $2.53 million and spent years fixing it
No wonder Harry Macklowe’s pulling out all the stops in his quest to build a 1,500-foot-tall office tower between East 51st and 52nd streets, where he refinanced three small parcels in his assemblage for $192 million last week. Some “experts” think the city’s office market has more space than it needs, and too much new
Actress Liv Tyler has been a fixture in the West Village for almost two decades. Now she has just sold her historic townhouse for $17.45 million — to fashion designer Betsey Johnson — in an off-market deal, according to city property records. Tyler bought the four-story townhouse, at 255 W. 11th St., in 2001 for
Mexico is auctioning off six houses once owned by jailed drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman — complete with reinforced metal gates and escape tunnels into Culiacan’s sewer system. Among the properties on the block is the two-story house in the Guadalupe neighborhood that served as Guzman’s headquarters for his Sinaloa cartel and includes a
The Long Island mansion from the 1986 flick “The Money Pit” has become a real-life money pit. This Nassau County home — which played the role of a falling-apart Gilded Age property that Walter (Tom Hanks) and Anna (Shelley Long) buy for a suspicious bargain — has sold for $3.5 million after five years on