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This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings

 Including a bevy of freestanding houses. By Nora DeLigter
  1. Hilton Hilton Is Here Here Boutique real estate care of Rick, Barron, and Tessa.
    By Clio Chang
  2. That $8,000 Two-Bedroom Comes With a Week of Summer Camp A newish twist in the Brooklyn amenity wars.
    By Kim Velsey
  3. Harry Macklowe Is Selling His Post-Divorce East Hampton Estate The $38 million home on Georgica Pond features ocean vistas (and reported views of his ex-wife).
    By Kim Velsey
  4. The Immediately Outdated Renovation “It used to be that seven-to-ten years was the shelf life. Now you look and say, ‘How can this look dated already?’”
    By Kim Velsey
  5. Everything’s Bigger in Long Island City Right Now The high-rise population is booming and rents are climbing as Manhattan expats learn to love the 7.
    By Clio Chang
  6. What Real Estate Does Trump Own in NYC Anyway? Letitia James says she will seize Trump’s properties if he doesn’t pay his civil fraud penalty. The problem is, he doesn’t own that many.
    By Wilfred Chan
  7. A Village Voice Founder’s Gramercy Park Apartment Is for Sale Ed Fancher’s classic floor-through has a triangular living room overlooking the park.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  8. A West Village Two-Bedroom and a Sprawling Windsor Terrace Co-op for $599,000 Plus, an Upper West Side prewar with custom built-ins.
    By Kim Velsey
  9. Nir Meir’s Big Swindle The city is charging the former HFZ developer with fraud on three projects. His colleagues say they saw it coming.
    By James D. Walsh
  10. Tennis at the Former Hotel Pennsylvania, Anyone? While Vornado waits for a better office market, it proposes a pop-up park on the vacant site.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  11. Annie Leibovitz Finds a Buyer on Central Park West And signs point to a bidding war.
    By Kim Velsey
  12. The Village Voice vs. Robert Moses The paper was editor Mary Perot Nichols’s weapon in the battle to save Washington Square Park.
    By Tricia Romano
  13. A Porch With a View in Kingston and a Twofer in Ulster County Or a freshly renovated farmhouse in Rhinebeck.
    By Curbed Staff
  14. The Eco-Yogi Slumlord House Is For Sale But you’ll have to win the city’s notoriously dysfunctional housing lottery first.
    By Bridget Read
  15. The Ugliest Divorce in Manhattan Real Estate HFZ’s luxury developers staked their futures on Bjarke Ingels’s High Line debut and lost everything.
    By James D. Walsh
  16. Nir Meir Has Been Arrested in Florida The former HFZ developer, who oversaw a $2 billion debacle along the High Line, is facing extradition to New York.
    By James D. Walsh
  17. John Barrett’s Apartment Is for Sale The celebrity hairstylist of Martha Stewart, Hillary Clinton, and countless socialites passed away last year.
    By Clio Chang
  18. A Frankenmansion Sets a New Downtown Record A double-wide townhouse in Greenwich Village is apparently worth $73 million.
    By Kim Velsey
  19. The Luxury Flagship War on Fifth Avenue Why Prada, LVMH, and other luxury brands are buying up real estate.
    By Kim Velsey
  20. The Lidls Are Coming Soon there will be almost a dozen locations of the discount European grocery chain in New York City.
    By Clio Chang
  21. This Stalled Harlem-Housing Complex Might Not Be Dead After All A new councilperson and a soon-empty building may mean One45 has a chance of going up.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  22. Jenna Lyons’s Old Park Slope Townhouse Is for Sale And she would like us to know it’s not her décor.
    By Clio Chang
  23. A Seaside Cottage on an East Village Rooftop The listing comes with a penthouse duplex with a terrace and double-height rooms.
    By Kim Velsey
  24. An Airy Artist’s Loft Hiding in an Unremarkable Rowhouse Isamu Noguchi and Keith Haring have both visited this deceptively simple-looking Greenpoint apartment.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  25. Coveting Your Downstairs Neighbor’s Apartment? You’re Floorplantsy. When that slightly better one-bedroom in your building has you lusting.
    By Kim Velsey
  26. A Rhinebeck Artist Compound and a Roomy Hudson Cottage Plus two other upstate listings.
    By Curbed Staff
  27. Alec Baldwin Clearly Doesn’t Want to Sell His Hamptons Home His pitch video — along with a $10 million price cut — shows that he has to.
    By Clio Chang
  28. La Grenouille’s Building Is Up for Sale The ultratraditional French restaurant has been at the center of a decadelong feud between the two Masson brothers.
    By Kim Velsey
  29. Someone Is Finally Buying Joan Didion’s Apartment After three price cuts and a new broker.
    By Kim Velsey
  30. The Real-Estate Fund Buying Up Homes in Top School Districts The plan is to rent them out to families looking for a way into million-dollar housing markets.
    By Kim Velsey
  31. And Now the Barneys Flagship Will Become Condos After five years of hosting Spirit Halloween and antiques-show pop-ups, the building has a new owner.
    By Clio Chang
  32. A Plaza-Apartment Auction, Starting at $1 The Smucker jam family is trying a less conventional method of selling off its one-bedroom.
    By Kim Velsey
  33. A Garrison Estate That Was Formerly a Commune The 110-acre property includes a three-bedroom house, various outbuildings, and several pyramids.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  34. Curbed’s 10 Most-Read ‘Truly Terrific’ NYC Apartment Listings of 2023 Including a Frank Lloyd Wright–inspired house in Queens and a much-obsessed-over Gilded Age mansion.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  35. You Can Still Buy It for the Architecture A roundup of the truly one-of-a-kind homes we covered in 2023 that are still on the market.
    By Kim Velsey
  36. The Innkeeper Influencers Are Busy The holidays are no time to relax for TikTok’s hygge entrepreneurs.
    By Clio Chang
  37. A Limestone Mansion for Under a Million and a Stone Cottage in Kinderhook Plus, an updated-ish farmhouse near Rhinecliff.
    By Curbed Staff
  38. 2024 Will Be a Better Year for Homebuyers But not exactly great.
    By Kim Velsey
  39. Define ‘Penthouse’ From low-rises to tiny top floors in new developments, brokers are getting increasingly creative with their use of “PH.”
    By Clio Chang
  40. An $8,500-a-Month, Influencer-‘Renovated’ Two-Bedroom Pretty in the Pines is leaving her Central Park West apartment, and its peel-and-stick moldings, behind.
    By Kim Velsey
  41. When New York’s Biggest Private Landlords Are Columbia and NYU A new bill proposes the schools start paying taxes accordingly.
    By Clio Chang
  42. Kickstarter’s Greenpoint Office Is Becoming a Hype House A talent agency plans to turn it into a members-only campus.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  43. Ronald S. Lauder Sold His Tiny Philip Johnson Home The Rockefeller Guest House, which once stored its original owner’s art collection, was an off-market listing.
    By Kim Velsey
  44. The $3,500 No-Kitchen Apartment Getting by with a mini-fridge and hot plate used to mean cheap rent. Now it’s a “versatile” amenity.
    By Clio Chang
  45. The Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture Mansion’s Not-So-Secret Buyer City records haven’t posted yet, but that hasn’t stopped brokers from talking.
    By Kim Velsey
  46. The Landlords Are Merging Two organizations representing owners of rent-stabilized buildings across the city may be teaming up because one of them is going broke.
    By Clio Chang
  47. One of New York’s Most Secretive Real-Estate Families Goes Succession A lawsuit reveals squabbling and allegations of mismanagement among the heirs to Solil Management’s billion-dollar portfolio
    By Kim Velsey
  48. They’ll Never Leave This 5,800-Square-Foot Loft No matter how much money you throw at them.
    By Lane Brown
  49. Landlords Are Tanking Their Tenants’ Credit Scores An increasingly popular tactic to pressure tenants to pay rent on time.
    By Clio Chang
  50. Landlord King Charles Has Shady Methods He’s been secretly upgrading his portfolio with money from his dead subjects.
    By Clio Chang
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