Young Americans are increasingly finding themselves shut out of the housing market as rising debt levels and lingering affordability pressures reshape the path to homeownership. ... Read full Story
By New York YIMBY | Michael Young | 3/21/2026 8:01 AM
Construction wraps up on the New Museum's seven-story expansion at 231 Bowery in the Bowery section of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Designed by Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu of OMA along with Cooper Robertson & Partners, the 174-foot-tall annex stands directly south of the SANAA-designed main building, which was completed in 2007. The 60,000-square-foot addition connects laterally to the original structure and will more than double the institution’s footprint to 115,277 square feet. The new building will contain three gallery floors, an 80-seat restaurant, a larger bookstore, and offices for staff, among other spaces. The property is located at the intersection of Bowery and Prince Street. ... Read full Story
By New York YIMBY | Max Gillespie | 3/21/2026 7:31 AM
Slate Property Group and Avenue Realty Capital have acquired 45 White Street, a seven-story multifamily rental building in Tribeca, Manhattan, marking the partnership’s second acquisition in the neighborhood within the past six months. The partners purchased the 33,500-square-foot property from Benchmark Real Estate Group for $32 million, with financing provided by White Oak Real Estate Capital.
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The affordable housing lottery has launched for 1985 Jerome Avenue, a seven-story mixed-use building in Morris Heights, The Bronx. Designed by ARC Architecture + Design Studio and developed by Moris Yeroshalmi under the Yed LLC, the structure yields 56 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 28 units for residents at 40 to 80 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $35,692 to $116,640. ... Read full Story
Permits have been filed for an eight-story mixed-use building at 677 East 141st Street in Mott Haven, The Bronx. Also addressed as 351 Powers Avenue, the corner lot is near the Cypress Avenue subway station, served by the 6 train. Rona Reodica of New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development is listed as the owner behind the applications. ... Read full Story
Realtor.com® economists had identified the national Best Time to Sell Week as April 12-18, but now it's accompanied by economic uncertainty. ... Read full Story
This week, a California one-percenter bought a $49.9 million penthouse at Mandarin Oriental, Miami, located in the Brickell district. ... Read full Story
Work is nearing completion on Forte Living, an 18-story residential building at 205 East 110th Street in East Harlem, Manhattan. Designed by Studio V Architecture and developed by Fouerti Realty, the structure will yield 209 rental units, including 53 affordable homes, and ground-floor commercial space. The site is bounded by Third Avenue, East 110th, and East 111th Streets. ... Read full Story
By New York YIMBY | Max Gillespie | 3/20/2026 7:30 AM
Panepinto Properties has completed construction at 505 Summit, a 53-story residential tower in Jersey City, New Jersey. The mixed-use development brings 605 rental residences to the neighborhood, including studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom layouts, along with 3,200 square feet of retail space and a landscaped public plaza. New York-based HLW International designed the building, while Greystar will serve as property manager.
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The affordable housing lottery has launched for The Pecora, a 26-story residential building at 41-08 Crescent Street in Long Island City, Queens. Designed by Dan Ionescu Architects and developed by Watermark Capital Group, the structure yields 184 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 56 units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $117,703 to $227,500. ... Read full Story
Permits have been filed for a four-story mixed-use building at 4411 Avenue D in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Located between East 45th Street and Troy Avenue, the lot is closest to the Beverly Road subway station, served by the 2 and 5 trains. Simcha Ludmir of Nelson Capital Associates LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications. ... Read full Story
The saga behind the Tadao Ando-designed residence at 24844 Malibu Road reached its latest chapter on Thursday in Pomona, California. ... Read full Story
While family homes are often framed as the cornerstone of generational wealth, for heirs, a home’s condition and the cost of carrying it can quickly reshape what an inheritance is actually worth. ... Read full Story
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 22, 2026 is:
apotheosis \uh-pah-thee-OH-sis\ noun
Apotheosis refers to the perfect form or example of something, or to the highest or best part of something. It can also mean “elevation to divine status; deification.” It is usually singular, but the plural form is apotheoses.
// Some consider (however ironically) french fries to be the apotheosis of U.S. cuisine.
// Their music reached its creative apotheosis in the late 2010s, which is also when they won two Grammys.
“At its simplest level, Canada appears in American literature as a wilderness escape from a more urbanized United States. ... The apotheosis of this view of Canada as a wilderness getaway might be Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Two Campers in Cloud Country,’ subtitled ‘Rock Lake, Canada’ and written about a camping trip she and her husband Ted Hughes took through Canada and the northeastern US in 1959.” — Brooke Clark, LitHub.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Did you know?
Among the ancient Greeks, it was sometimes thought fitting to grant someone “god” status. Hence the word apothéōsis, from the verb apotheóō or apotheoûn, meaning “to deify.” (All are rooted in the Greek word theós, meaning “god,” which we can also thank for such religion-related terms as theology and atheism.) There’s not a lot of literal apotheosizing to be had in modern English, but apotheosis is thriving in the 21st century. It can refer to the highest or best part of something, as in “the celebration reaches its apotheosis in an elaborate feast,” or to a perfect example or ultimate form, as in “a movie that is the apotheosis of the sci-fi genre.”