After a successful if rather macabre run as the Addam's family matriarch Morticia, Brooke Shields left Broadway with a grand bow and rousing applause in late December. Little did we know she was plotting another Broadway exit: Ms. Shields and husband Chris Henchy have sold their co-op at 458 Broadway, city records show. Read More
We know that Mayor Bloomberg lives in the lap of Old World luxury in his string of East Side townhouse, but his ex, Susan Bloomberg, has a roost rivaling the mayor's Baroque maison, as well? Or at least she did.
Unlike her former husband's palatial uptown abode, Ms. Bloomberg favors downtown digs, at One Kenmare Square, to be exact, that black, wavy lodestar built by Andre Balazs. Ms. Bloomberg has just sold her candy-colored bachelorette pad for $11.6 million, according to city records Read More
When you fall asleep at night do you dream sweet dreams of life in a rent stabilized apartment? Tenants throughout the city have been living the dream in rent regulated digs while, month in and month out, you shed tears as you sign the check to your landlord. Curbed has a particularly interesting tale Read More
Well, well, well. Look who's leaving the Dakota for Soho.
Yoko Ono has leased 10,000 square feet along the cobblestone streets where she will exhibit her late husband’s artwork for four days this weekend. 76 Wooster Street, a four-story brick building between Spring and Broome, will house Gimme Some Truth, a “visual tribute for John Lennon’s 71st birthday,” on view October 7-10. Read More
Everyone had so much fun at The Dutch this summer! We can hardly remember what sun is like, what with the never-ending rain, but during that warmer season the city flocked to Andrew Carmellini's new SoHo restaurant for plentiful seafood and cocktails, not to mention the wistful old-turned-new ambiance. Sam Sifton called it the Read More
Soho and Noho has become one of those places "real" New Yorkers loathe to visit, like Times Square and Canal Street.
It's jam-packed with funny smells, honking cars and gawking tourists. As if there were any question lower Broadway was anything more than an awful suburban mall, the kind of place most New Yorkers move here to escape, the latest lease at 691 Broadway proves it: Spencer's Gifts is moving in. And who's to blame? None other than that downtown scourge, N.Y.U. Read More
Hank Azaria may be the best thing—really the only good thing—about the sacrilege that is Smurfs 3-D. And The Observer had no idea he was even in the movie until he decided to sell his Soho loft. Perhaps that was the whole point. Read More
A trip to this Soho condo is almost like a trip to the circus—bizarre and fun. The decor doesn't quite make sense, and bright colors are mixed with weird furniture. But this is Soho.
Worth a look is the condo's outdoor space, which includes a patio, lots of trees and a pebble-covered lounge area. According to the listing, the two-bedroom townhouse is 2,134 square feet while the outdoor "private garden" comes in at 2,233 square feet. The listing isn't kidding when it says this property is for "serious outdoor lovers." We hope the buyers like spending more time outside than in their $3.5 million home. Read More
Back in 2008, when George Herbert Walker IV bought a townhouse at 6 East 10th Street for $13.95 million, twice the price it had sold for two years earlier, he was derided as just another punch-drunk Lehmanite. But Mr. Walker, the head of Neuberger Berman, a Fuldian cast-off from the collapsed financial firm and Read More
The corner of Lafayette and Houston, long-time home of the iconic red-blue-and-white Gaseteria, was sexy long before Soho was.
"Gaseteria is very real, very raw, it's sexy and hip," Marcello Porcelli, whose father built the chain, told the New Yorker in 2003. "It just represents everything that's beautiful and wonderful and real about New York. I gave one Read More
What a week for Derek Lam! His new capsule collection for eBay has been flying off the electronic shelves since it went on sale Tuesday, and now city records reveal Mr. Lam has been doing some shopping himself. The San Francisco-born designer bought a fashionably renovated loft atop 92 Greene Street at the end of Read More
This $3.2 million SoHo loft has two, count 'em two, home offices, making this 3,234 square foot property perfect as an office for that start-up you know you've always wanted to run.
The rest of this Sotheby's offering features beamed ceilings, exposed brick, cement columns, hardwood floors, tilt and turn windows with Hudson River Read More
Jose Freire was nowhere to be found. It was the inaugural night of his second Team gallery, on Wooster Street in SoHo. The space, filled with stenciled paintings by David Ratcliff, was teeming with guests waiting to congratulate him. Finally, Freire materialized--standing nervously behind a metal dog leash that served as a velvet rope Read More
Yet another diminuitive newcomer is coming to Hudson Square. Trinity Church is selling the ground lease to another piece of its prized Hudson Square puzzle for a commercial development site.
Trinity, quietly one of the wealthiest private landlords in the city, is marketing a 99-year ground lease at 92 Sixth Avenue, on the northeast corner of Grand Read More
The staccato-style listing for this Soho penthouse calls the 10,000-square-foot property a "once in a life time offering" before going on to list the condo's features one line at a time, as if to give you time to wrap your head around each one: six bedrooms, six bathrooms, Italian stone, 36-foot ceilings, 9-foot doors, four fireplaces, Read More
