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“New signed contracts for all three property types combined expanded annually for the past three months. The new signed contract gains were significantly larger for this March and April because the year-ago period marked the early days of the pandemic lockdown. New inventory jumped annually for the most recent two months for the same reason.”
(source: millersamuel.com)
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Round-the-clock subway service in New York City resumed May 17 after more than a year of late-night, pandemic-related closures.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo made the announcement in late April wrapped it into a broader swath of reopening announcements that end most pandemic-related capacity limits and eliminate restaurant curfews.
“The city that never sleeps is slowly—but surely—living up to its name again and waking up from the COVID-19 pandemic, but so should the subway system—and ASAP,” Sen.Schumer said in a statement.
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In a joint statement, the Vessel’s designer Thomas Heatherwick and Hudson Yards developer, Related Companies, announced that the 150-foot-tall copper-clad staircase will be dismantled for safety reasons.
Instead, a digital rendering of the structure will be sold as a non-fungible token (NFT) in an auction next month. Earnings from the sale will be used to cover the costs of disassembling the structure.
(source: hyperallergic.com)
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Manhattan retailers are still waiting for the return of tourists to 5th Avenue and employees to Midtown offices, but some retail corridors outside of the central business district have seen metrics return almost to where they were before the pandemic.
Vacancies and rents in the Bronx’s main retail area, Fordham Road, are near normal, the New York Times reported. The vacancy rate is 3 percent, according to the Fordham Road Business Improvement District.
Meanwhile, in Brooklyn, new residential development has aided projects ...
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Let’s take a look at closed sales in the first quarter of 2021.
Manhattan has finally joined the real estate party that the wider tri-state region, and also most markets in the USA, have been experiencing since the summer.
Manhattan lost more residents than the other boroughs during the pandemic due to ...
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Headline after headline made it seem like half of Manhattan had moved to Florida for good.
Reality check: Only a small percentage of Manhattanites relocated permanently to Florida last year. And as vaccinations amp up, many might be returning — or changing their plans to move in the first place, according to Bloomberg News.
Only 2,246 people filed a permanent address change from Manhattan to Miami-Dade County last year, while 1,741 went to Palm Beach County.
Still, even a ...
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