Roughly 350 lawsuits are filed annually in the five boroughs targeting homes caught in inherited ownership disputes, per the Center for NYC Neighborhoods. ... Read full Story
All-American Rejects guitarist Nick Wheeler is opening the doors to the creative hub where his band's long-awaited fifth album was carefully curated—years after he brought his dream of having a private recording studio to life at his Tennessee home. ... Read full Story
Permits, building codes, inspections, and regulations are tacking on huge costs to build new single-family homes, which are inevitably passed along to homebuyers. ... Read full Story
BDT & MSD is already entertaining a handful of suitors reportedly circling the Pennsylvania Avenue property at around $400 million. ... Read full Story
Centre 360, a new free public observatory, opened today atop the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building at 1 Centre Street in the Civic Center section of Lower Manhattan. The experience is located more than 500 feet high within the Beaux-Arts cupola of the landmarked 40-story skyscraper, and is part of a $6 million renovation by the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS). The property is located at the corner of Centre and Reade Streets, directly east of City Hall. ... Read full Story
By New York YIMBY | Max Gillespie | 6/11/2026 7:31 AM
The first phase of the Battery Coastal Resilience project is now complete at The Battery in Lower Manhattan. The $200 million phase, which was led by NYC EDC, NYC Parks, and the Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice, rebuilt and elevated a portion of the wharf promenade to help protect the park from projected sea-level rise through 2100. ... Read full Story
The affordable housing lottery has launched for Botanic Heights, a seven-story residential building at 960 Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Designed by Hamish Whitefield and developed by YS Developers LLC, the structure yields 290 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 91 units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $106,766 to $238,160. ... Read full Story
Permits have been filed for a four-story residential building at 274 East 32nd Street in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Located between Clarendon Road and Cortelyou Road, the interior lot is near the Beverly Road subway station, served by the 2 and 5 trains. 274 E32 LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications. ... Read full Story
The stunning Palm Springs estate of the late philanthropist and businessman Harold Matzner was put up for sale for a whopping $19.5 million price tag on Tuesday. ... Read full Story
Airbnb announced Tuesday that select rentals across all 16 World Cup host cities will come bundled with complimentary FIFA match tickets. ... Read full Story
The fight has centered on fairness and market factors: whether sellers deserve more privacy, whether buyers are being shut out, and whether homes sold off-market really get the best price. ... Read full Story
“Later that week we were boarding our flight with the painting secured in an enormous case with a toothy, bespectacled cartoon squirrel emblazoned on the back and a speech bubble that read ‘I’M JUST NUTS ABOUT PUZZLES!’” — Orlando Whitfield, All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art, 2025
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Blazon is a less commonly used synonym of the more familiar coat of arms. Both centuries-old terms refer to heraldic designs, symbols, and other imagery (think crosses, lions, stripes, etc.) that typically appear on banners, shields, armor, and elsewhere. The verb form of blazon meaning “to depict heraldic figures or designs in drawing or engraving” and emblazon, “to inscribe or adorn with or as if with heraldic figures or designs,” came into use around the same time in the late 1500s, from the French spoken in medieval England. (The word heraldry, also ultimately from Anglo-French, came into use then too.) Emblazon still refers to marking something with an emblem of heraldry, but it is now more often used for adorning or publicizing something in any conspicuous way, whether with eye-catching decoration or colorful words of praise.