Updated July 17, 2018 The New York City Department of Health announced last week that it is investigating several cases of Legionnaires' disease in the lower Washington Heights section of Manhattan . As of July 17, there was one de…
A developer who proposed a seven-story condominium to be built on the site of a deadly East Village gas explosion from 2015 will now have to revise its plans. Curbed reported on July 10 that the Landmarks Preservation Commission had sent…
The co-op and condo sales market in the Harlem, Washington Heights, and Inwood sections of Northern Manhattan has been on an upward trajectory for many years--at least the last six--with the market bottoming out from the Great Recession som…
Every year, the New York Landmarks Conservancy holds its Moses Awards – named after local philanthropist Lucy G. Moses – to honor outstanding achievement in preservation projects. A project team behind a facade preservation and rest…
It was a very mixed second quarter 2018 for the Manhattan residential market (condos and co-ops), according to the latest report by Douglas Elliman. Those results included a decline in sales prices and number of closed sales, along with an…
Washington Heights sits on the narrow neck of land that juts up from Harlem toward the Bronx in upper Manhattan. Developed in stages from around the turn of the last century through World War II, the neighborhood has been referred to by m…
Bitcoin is the cryptocurrency – an electronic form of money – du jour. Whether it is a promising alternative to the various denominations of loot that we all know and love, or simply a fleeting tech sensation remains to be seen. Ju…
It appears such institutions as the New York Stock Exchange, One World Trade Center, and the South Street Seaport in New York City's Financial District -- FiDi to its friends -- will be getting a lot of new neighbors in the next several yea…
The days of incandescent lighting are on the wane, and LED lighting is where it's at. Cooler, more efficient, and longer-lasting than most older bulbs, LEDs are even mandated for use in some settings. Here, lighting pros tell what your boar…
In the four weeks leading up to May 1, Manhattan's average residential sales price increased significantly while the number of recorded sales saw an uptick. That's what real estate website CityRealty said in its recently-released June…