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Big Deal: Lots to Spend, Little to Buy

PITY the long-suffering brokers of luxury Manhattan real estate. They endured a lonely spell, waiting for the phone to ring. Few properties sold and few buyers were even looking. Now with the Wall Street bonus season about to begin, they are suffering ...

From JOSH BARBANEL, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Brown Harris Stevens,  Google Inc.

Big Deal: They Have to Live Somewhere

PERHAPS too much has been said about those tiresome kings of finance, macho bankers and hedge fund executives who have swooped in and picked up some of New York’s most valuable real estate in good times and less good times. But they aren’t the only ...

From JOSH BARBANEL, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Anne M. Mulcahy,  Xerox,  Bank of America,  Merrill Lynch

Big Deal: Rooftop Ruckus

CONSTANCE HANSEN and her husband, Russell Peacock, both photographers, live and work in a loft in a co-op on West 31st Street, where they have long dreamed of building a rooftop extension made up in part of shipping containers hoisted up from the ...

From JOSH BARBANEL, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Big Deal: Leaving on a High Note

THROUGHOUT the real estate boom, one commercial property after another in the West Village was sold and transformed into an expensive condominium or house. At the same time, Danta C. Raso and Ricard de La Rosa went about their business, Pro Piano, ...

From JOSH BARBANEL, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Keith Jarrett,  Albert Watson,  Landmarks Preservation Commission,  Noam Gottesman,  Forbes Magazine

Big Deal: Changes of Heart

ONE Madison Park, the soaring 600-foot glass condominium that towers over East 23rd Street, opened to its first residents in August, but since then only five buyers have closed, according to city records. Other would-be buyers have walked away raising ...

From JOSH BARBANEL, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Brown Harris Stevens,  Marc Jacobs,  Paul Davies,  Madonna

Big Deal: Almost Family

FOR much of his adult life, Joseph A. Olshefski has been bound up with a 150-year-old house with a white picket fence off Second Avenue on 58th Street. In 1975, when the building was the Czech Pavilion restaurant, Mr. Olshefski found his first job ...

From JOSH BARBANEL, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Oleg Cassini

Big Deal: Overtaken by a School

WHEN Roland Karlen bought a town house on 94th Street off Central Park West 41 years ago, the neighborhood was rough. “People thought I was crazy,” he said. But he came to love his block, and over the years, he and his neighbors watched the Upper West ...

From JOSH BARBANEL, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009

Big Deal: Room for the Eight-Legged

FOR decades, Louise Bourgeois, the French-born sculptor, has held court on Sundays in her 15-foot-wide town house on West 20th Street, meeting with young artists who would show up at her door with their latest pieces, eager to hear her sometimes ...

From JOSH BARBANEL, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Louise Bourgeois,  William Ivey Long,  Tony Awards

Big Deal: Applying Realism to the Apartment Hunt

STEVE EISMAN usually has the last laugh. He is the salty and abrasive hedge fund manager who concluded early that Wall Street had created a subprime boom that would eventually explode, and began betting heavily against the doomsday machine created by ...

From JOSH BARBANEL, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Dow Jones,  Michael Lewis,  Portfolio Magazine,  Douglas Elliman

Big Deal: A Season of Adjustment

SCOTT BESSENT’S 11-room duplex apartment at One Sutton Place South, one of the grand prewar co-ops overlooking the East River, could be considered a bellwether for the fall season and the possible recovery of the Manhattan real estate market. The ...

From JOSH BARBANEL, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Patricia Kennedy Lawford,  Brown Harris Stevens,  John F. Kennedy,  George Soros,  General Motors

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