The Belnord apartment building between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue on 86th and 87th Streets will be getting a “very high-class Botox treatment” according to architect Robert A.M. Stern, who is behind the much hailed limestone building at 15 Central Park West  and now tapped to design the rental-to-condo conversion of 95 apartments. Stern’s designs, which were approved by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, include reconfiguring apartment layouts and adding amenities like a gym and central air.

Developer HFZ Capital ...

Harlem has been undergoing a transformation but much of that has been focused westward while East Harlem’s remaking has been more anticipated than achieved. With the arrival of Second Avenue subway to the south and a brand new Whole Foods to the west, change is amiss in East Harlem.

In fact, there are already several large residential projects awaiting a green light and a 88-block rezoning that would allow for 30-story towers along Park, Lexington and Third Avenues is ...

As New York’s condo market becomes increasingly oversupplied with large, luxurious four and five bedroom units, market for townhouses has cooled off. Once a symbol of the ultimate ‘I Made It’ status, townhouses (which represent 2.5 percent of all Manhattan sales) have languished in price. The median sales price for a Manhattan townhouse fell by 5.3 percent last year to $4.97 million after several years of consecutive increases and the number of days spent on the market averaged 164 in ...