AM New York reports that the first phase of the Second Avenue subway is more than half finished as of July. Blasting for the 72nd Street station finished in February, but rock-crumbling explosives will be detonated inside the 86th Street station cavern through August, with possibly more blasting in ancillary areas. The end of blasting at 86th Street means the end of the muck houses that handle the debris. Residents will see an improvement in their quality of life near ...

This is not a joke. A report compiled by international brokerage and consulting firm Knight Frank, which is based in London, indicates that New York City occupies only the 8th place in the ranking of the world’s priciest cities.
According to Knight Frank, in New York, $1 million buys approximately 474 square feet of luxury real estate. The tiny principality of Monaco, where $1 million buys only 172 square feet, was ranked # 1, followed by Hong Kong (204 square ...

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The choice used to be an easy one. Those who could afford it chose the city. Those who wanted more space for their bucks chose the lower borough. That is no longer true these days. With sale prices and especially rents rising sharply in Brooklyn, many home-seekers are finding that popular Brooklyn neighborhoods no longer come at the discount they’re expecting.
Let’s look at rentals. The June issue of The Real Deal analyzed market data and found that rents have ...

The developers of one of the most luxurious buildings in Manhattan, 15 Central Park West, have their eyes set on midtown east (also known as Turtle Bay) — specifically First Avenue near 46th Street where a new luxury condo project is under construction. Arthur and William Lie Zeckendorf’s latest development, a 44-story tower, will be the area’s first new residential project since 2001 when the Trump World Tower was completed and is poised to set price records for that area. ...

The current inventory crunch, the worst in recent memory, has become the defining feature of New York’s residential market. At the end of the first quarter, there were just 4,960 co-ops and condos in Manhattan for sale – a 34% decrease from 7,560 in the same period of last year according to appraisal firm Miller Samuel. Current inventory is around the levels of 2004, before the real estate boom gathered steam. Inventory peaked in 2009 and has been falling ever ...