The New York Observer » unreal estate http://www.observer.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:25:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Unreal Estate: Not Your Bubbe’s Stanhope The swanky Stanhope of yore has been cleanly reinvented as high-end residences, renamed 995 Fifth to further emphasize its Gold Coast address. Of the 26 condos in the conversion, all but one have sold: the full-floor, eight-bedroom, 8,300-square-foot-plus, 16th-floor spread listed for $28.5 million by Gumley Haft Kleier's bi-generational triumvirate, Michelle Kleier and daughters Sabrina Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/real-estate/unreal-estate-not-your-bubbes-stanhope Unreal Estate: Conversation Nook Included In which our correspondent explores the two brownstone floors of cheese expert and author David Gibbons.

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]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/real-estate/take-ipad Art for Heart’s Sake Nearly four decades ago, when artists Leon Golub and Nancy Spero moved into the Greenwich Village loft they used both as studio and living space, the Village was still "the Village" and neighbors were more Allen Ginsberg than Senor Swanky's.

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]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/real-estate/art-hearts-sake-0 $59.5 M. and You Can Dream Latest Unreal Estate! Wherein our correspondent dreams of what could be in city's second priciest Read More

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]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/politics/595-m-and-you-can-dream Shop the Presses! In which we find that print is not dead. It's real Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/real-estate/shop-presses Wet Beams Unreal Estate returns! Manhattan's new exposed brick -- the exposed Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/real-estate/wet-beams Exposed! Brick Tackling that last bastion of acceptable prejudice in New York real estate: those who like exposed Read More

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]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/exposed-brick All Wet A slideshow of Manhattan's most devilish private tippling Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/real-estate/all-wet Print Is Not Dead Wallpaper print, that is! Behold the gigantic Coppertone girl! Witness the paper that's 10 grand for 12 Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/real-estate/print-not-dead Burning Questions An Unreal Estate farewell from Max Abelson, with the fireplace as Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/real-estate/burning-questions 8.5 Bathrooms, Seven Bedrooms, $1 M. Off ... and $1 M. off! Unreal Estate at the Read More

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