Little by little, the world seems to be getting greener, and the Bloomberg administration has made greening the city one of its priorities in helping to reduce New York City’s carbon footprint. As part of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s Gr…
Despite what people mutter about real estate being in a down cycle in other parts of the region, in New York City, people are spending tens of millions on jaw-dropping properties throughout the city, with record-breaking sales being lo…
According to many observers, the worst of the recession is over. We’re now several years out from the collapses and near-collapses of Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual, Countrywide, Bear Stearns, AIG and other big-name financial firms.…
Green truly is the new black in New York City. As more and more co-ops, condos and HOAs look to save money as expenses rise, more and more boards, shareholders and unit owners are exploring ways to incorporate “greening” into their buil…
While a building’s facade might draw the eye initially, it’s usually the first employee a visitor encounters that forms a lasting impression. And for many condominiums in New York City, the resident doorman holds this coveted, all-impor…
When you think landscaping, you probably don’t think of a swanky New York co-op or condo building. After all, landscaping in the usual sense is typically reserved for suburban homes where there is rolling turf, strategically placed tree…
For most of us, there simply are not enough hours in the day to do everything that needs to be done. We rush to pick the kids up from school, make it to that impromptu work meeting that just got called, or even find the time to grab som…
Valerie Smaldone lives in a lovely, well-kept, prewar building in the Midtown East area, known as the Beekman area. Her building was built in the late 1920's and, among other amenities, has an extraordinary rooftop garden where she occ…
The worst of the recession—big-time failures of investment banks and mortgage companies, huge banks in trouble, companies laying people off in the thousands—may be over. There are some signs of hope, and residential buildings that were …
As we city dwellers go about our busy lives, we often forget about the plain facts of life here on this spinning globe: gravity creates an unceasing tension in the materials we assemble into buildings and other structures. Whether or n…