The National Urban League is moving its headquarters to Harlem, the neighborhood where it was founded in 1910, and will open New York City’s first museum devoted to the American civil rights movement and one of few in the nation to focus on the struggles in the North. The organization [...]
Los Angeles | $3.195 Million A recently renovated 1956 house with four bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms, on a 0.2-acre lot This house is in Studio City, about a mile from the intersection of Ventura and Laurel Canyon Boulevards, putting it within a five-minute drive of a bookstore, [...]
Q: I rent a market-rate apartment in a three-unit building in Queens, and my neighbor is setting up for major construction. To do the construction safely, they say they need to set up scaffolding on our building’s property in a way that will block our driveway. Access to our garage [...]
A large tax exemption enjoyed by many American home sellers for the past 27 years has been losing steam recently, according to a new study by CoreLogic. IRS rules allow couples to avoid taxation on up to $500,000 in capital gains — or profit, in lay terms — when selling [...]
At first glance, 160 Water Street looks like one of the many office buildings packed close together on the border of the financial district and the Seaport neighborhood of Manhattan. But an office building it is not — at least, not anymore. Pearl House, at 160 Water Street, is the [...]
Rua do Embaixador | €790,000 ($847,000) A renovated two-bedroom house with a patio in the Belém neighborhood This two-story townhouse, or “mini villa,” is in Belém, a neighborhood on the Tagus River that is famously marked by its eponymous 16th-century waterfront tower, and by the Monument of the Discoveries, which [...]
One weekend in 2021, Gemma Warren was doing what she did every weekend: sitting over coffee in her home in Tulum, Mexico, combing through the real estate listings for cabins in the Catskill Mountains of New York. She and her husband, Nick Warren, who are English, had discovered the Catskills [...]
The stately brick-and-limestone apartment house at 101 Central Park West has been home to many high-profile residents over the years, including the actors Harrison Ford and Rick Moranis and the equestrian Georgina Bloomberg. Some of the residents have stayed for decades. Irwin Segelstein, a TV network executive who also oversaw [...]
Manhattan | 444 Central Park West, No. 6H Manhattan Valley Co-op $1.675 million A two-bedroom, two-bath, 1,600-square-foot apartment with an entry closet, a windowed kitchen, a den/home office, en suite bathrooms, ample closets and a washer/dryer, on the sixth floor of a 19-story prewar doorman building with a live-in super, [...]
This week’s properties are a five-bedroom in Port Washington and a [...]