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A Proper Ditmas Two-Bed With Space for a Second Bathroom

And a Brooklyn Heights one-bed for thrill seekers.
  1. Maybe Try For a Co-op in 2025 Brokers on where they think the New York market is heading and where you might find a good deal.
  2. Are Broker Fees Free Speech? “REBNY doesn’t need to care whether they win — they have enough money to throw in a speed bump.”
  3. This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings Stunning views in Washington Heights and dare I say the perfect apartment in Bed-Stuy.
  4. How Aby Rosen Lost the Chrysler Building RFR wanted to return the building to its original swagger. It was a risky bet from the start.
  5. A First Look at Audrey Gelman’s Six Bells Hotel The ruffly 11-room hotel is set to open in the Hudson Valley next spring.
  6. A Boerum Hill One-Bedroom With a Cobalt-Blue Fireplace for $575,000 And a sunny little co-op in Jackson Heights that’s so cheap, you’ll faint.
  7. The Alexander Brothers Have Been Arrested and Charged With Sex Trafficking Oren and Alon were granted bail by a state judge, but are still being held in custody on federal charges.
  8. An Appealingly Petite Log Cabin in Phoenicia And a “hand-restored” ski getaway with its own EV charger.
  9. Who Came Up With Those Rental Income Requirements Anyway? Figuring it out is harder than you’d think.
  10. Ty Pennington Is Moving to Tribeca The HGTV star won’t have much to renovate in the 1852 brick warehouse turned luxury condo.
  11. Is This the End of the Hostage Tenant? Lowering the cost of moving means more renters can escape their terrible apartments.
  12. A Gilded One-Bedroom on West End Avenue for $839,000 And a Crown Heights condo that held on to all of its charm in a recent renovation.
  13. Bob Dylan’s Former Turtle Bay Townhouse Is for Sale He bought the place under his manager’s name, after renting for years from the actor Ruth Gordon.
  14. Bill Cosby Is Facing Foreclosure on East 61st The disgraced comedian owes $4.2 million on his Lenox Hill mansion. His other mansion, on East 71st, seems fine.
  15. A Tree House in the West Village for $775,000 And a Park Slope dentist’s office that’s actually a pretty ideal three-bedroom.
  16. It’s Christmas for D.C.’s Luxury Brokers “We were calling all our clients and saying, ‘Hey, do you want to sell your $9 million house?’”
  17. A Brooklyn Heights Townhouse With a Country-Home Feel Architect Wids DeLaCour Jr. won an award for the way he opened up this former “wreck” of a 19th-century townhouse.
  18. A Spacious One-Bed on a Highish Floor in the Clinton Hill Co-ops for $735,000 And a Park Slope two-bed that’s snug but smartly laid out.
  19. The Lichtenstein Family Is Selling a Townhouse The 1845 house where the artist once lived has pumpkin pine flooring and a solarium kitchen.
  20. The Same Guy Who Bought Kanye’s Malibu Mansion Wants Diddy’s Bo Belmont offered half the listed price.
  21. My Doomed Hunt for a House in the Rockaways I was ready to buy a home in a neighborhood I loved. Was I delusional?
  22. Arthur Sulzberger Jr. Is Moving to Morningside Heights The former New York Times publisher bought a $2.45 million condo in the Robert A.M. Stern–designed Claremont Hall.
  23. Apple-Picking With Your Luxury Building Sounds Miserable Developers are trying to make adult field trips a hot new amenity for renters.
  24. Two Balconies and a Grand Courtyard on E. 78th for $500,000 And a Brooklyn Heights two-bedroom co-op that doesn’t require board approval.
  25. Bill Ackman Is Getting Out of the Beresford The hedge-fund billionaire is selling two units for a total of $20 million.
  26. The Trump Luxury Bump All-cash buyers in Manhattan seemed to be feeling pretty good last week, setting a seasonal high for contracts signed.
  27. The Black Hole on Columbia Heights An Italianate mansion mysteriously left to rot on Matt Damon’s Brooklyn Heights block.
  28. A Reckoning for the Dilettante Real-Estate Agent Professional brokers are hoping new industry rules might cull the amateurs.
  29. Good-bye to the Broker Fee The City Council voted today to stop your landlord from passing his expenses on to you.
  30. A Clinton Hill One-Bedroom With an Ideal Layout for $685,000 And a handsome little studio that made us reconsider the Financial District.
  31. A Former Arts Colony With a Saltwater Pool in Woodstock And a David Henken retreat in the woods for less than a million.
  32. ‘I Don’t Think There’s Anything in This Apartment That Wasn’t Custom’ This Noho duplex on the market is full of clever interventions.
  33. A Kips Bay One-Bedroom With Brownstone Charm for $595,000 And a Greenwich Village studio with lovely built-ins and a Murphy bed.
  34. The Weird Worth of 40 Wall Street Donald Trump’s most troubled real estate could soon become a slick machine to curry favor with the president.
  35. Elon Musk Wants a Big Love Compound The billionaire has so far bought three neighboring mansions in Austin to house his 11 children and at least some of their moms.
  36. What Might Be the Nicest $700,000 One-Bedroom in Brooklyn And a Harlem two-bed that almost feels too affordable to be true.
  37. The Phone-Detox Amenity At the all-electric 505 State Street, residents are asked to unplug.
  38. Chobani House Is Coming The company is leasing every floor of 360 Bowery and carving out part of it as a laboratory for nonprofits.
  39. Douglas Elliman CEO Howard Lorber Is Out — But Why Now? Head of the brokerage for more than two decades, Lorber faced criticism for his handling of complaints against Tal and Oren Alexander.
  40. Raffi Is Selling His House The musician and activist’s Salt Spring Island three-bedroom has wood beams and ocean views and is going for $1.875 million.
  41. A Fitting End to the Saga of Rudy Giuliani’s Apartment “America’s mayor” always wanted a penthouse. Now the Georgia election workers he defamed own it.
  42. How to Look at Zillow With John Wilson A landlord’s offer spurred the documentarian and HBO host to go on a listings deep dive.
  43. A Wonderfully Sprawling Lenox Hill Three-Bedroom for $849,000 And a charming Woodside one-bedroom with a delightful little price.
  44. An ‘Italian Hill Town’ for Biohackers and Crypto CEOs Welcome to Esmeralda.
  45. A Golf Simulator Is Never Far Astroturf, projector screens, and men in deep concentration over their swings are taking over Manhattan (and some of Brooklyn).
  46. An Inn From 1807 With a Separate Carriage House in Stone Ridge And a stunning post-and-beam home with warm stone and river views in High Falls.
  47. A Hidden Artist’s Complex Behind Spring Street A screenwriter recruited friends to fix up a tenement in Nolita. In the half-century since, it’s housed artists, editors, and Laila Gohar.
  48. The Fight Over the Chrysler Building Is Getting Weird Aby Rosen’s RFR claims Cooper Union’s handling of student protests drove away tenants. Where is all of this heading?
  49. No One Wants to Live Near TikTokers From Dumbo to the West Village, brokers say hordes of content creators are giving clients cold feet.
  50. The Panic About the Parapets A new regulation about roofline walls is making brownstone owners anxious. Does it apply to them? Can they get out of it? Are they being exploited?
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