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
Late actress Shannen Doherty's longtime Malibu property has officially sold for $7.65 million, weeks after it was revealed that the dwelling had come under offer. ... Read full Story
Construction is about to go vertical at 1482 First Avenue, the site of a 30-story residential tower on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Hill West Architects and developed by Alchemy-ABR, the 395-foot-tall structure will span roughly 161,000 square feet and yield 89 rental units. Eighteen of the apartments will be rent-stabilized for residents earning 80 percent or less of the area median income (AMI). The project will also include nearly 1,500 square feet of commercial space. Paris Forino is the interior designer for property, which is comprised of two conjoined interior lots by the intersection of First Avenue and East 77th Street. ... Read full Story
The affordable housing lottery has launched for 275 20th Street, a five-story residential building in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn. Designed by Nikolai Katz Architect and developed by Yitzi Salamon, the structure yields 51 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 13 units for residents at 40 to 100 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $38,778 to $135,700. ... Read full Story
Permits have been filed for a nine-story mixed-use building at 200 Ashford Street in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Located at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Ashford Street, the lot is near the Cleveland Street subway station, served by the J train. Eric Brintauch under the Martin Abdul is listed as the owner behind the applications. ... Read full Story
A study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) analyzed US Census Bureau, property, and income tax records for more than 3.4 million families. ... Read full Story
SpaceX will debut on the Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker SPCX, in what is expected to be the largest initial public offering in Wall Street history, targeting a $135 share price and a valuation of nearly $1.8 trillion. ... Read full Story
“Game 3 of the World Series was a stone-cold thriller, with peaks of high drama and longueurs of exquisitely tense tedium ...” — Steve Rushin, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2025
Did you know?
You’ve probably come across long, tedious sections of books, plays, or musical works before, but perhaps you didn’t know there was a word for them. The French borrowing longueur has been doing the job for us since the late 18th century. As in English, French longueurs are tedious passages, with longueur itself literally meaning “length.” An early example of longueur used in an English text is from 18th-century writer Horace Walpole, who wrote in a letter, “Boswell’s book is gossiping; ... but there are woeful longueurs, both about his hero and himself.”