Posts Tagged ‘Midtown/Midtown West’

Lunching With Gehry: The WSJ’s Metropolis blog asks the…

August 4th, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

2010_8_gehrycaf.jpgThe WSJ’s Metropolis blog asks the most important question to date regarding Condé Nast’s eventual move to the World Trade Center: Who’ll inherit the company’s Frank Gehry-designed cafeteria in Times Square? It cost over $30 million to build, and while one commercial broker called it a “highly sought-after amenity,” he’s “not sure someone is going to rent that space just because Gehry designed the cafeteria.” A spokesman for the Durst Organization on potential suitors: “Who knows?” [Metropolis]

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Advertecture Wars: In perhaps further evidence of the…

August 4th, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

timessquarebillboards_ql.jpgIn perhaps further evidence of the rise of NIYBYism, the latest anti-advertecture campaign comes not from within the city but from Amsterdam. Dutch student Justus Bruns wants to replace Times Square’s billboards with artwork, and he’s used his website to raise enough money for airfare to New York. But since most Times Square billboards are already leased long-term, we hope he didn’t bring much advertecture-killing artwork with him on the plane. [DNAinfo]

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First Word: New Midtown Hotel Can’t Ease Our Planet Hollywood Pain

August 3rd, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

2010_8_237west55.jpgSteve Cuozzo dropped some bombshell revelations in his Post column today, including Planet Hollywood pulling up the stakes on its Times Square location (we’ll just have to point tour groups to Red Lobster now). The Cuozz also provides a little hope for a forlorn square block of Midtown that knows the pain of the credit crunch all too well. That big glassy skyscraper at 250 West 55th Street still isn’t happening, but at 237 West 54th Street, developer Joseph Moinian is looking for partners to turn a vacant five-story building he owns into a 400-room boutique hotel. We hate to see a nice arched facade wind up as rubble, but David Letterman could always use a new place near the office to bring his mistresses.
· Moinian eyes hotel partner [NYP]
Photo via PropertyShark

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Gave ‘Em the Boot: Carnegie Hall Kicks Its Last Remaining Artists Out

August 3rd, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

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After years of court battles, press coverage, celebrity anger and verbal assaults from senior citizens, Carnegie Hall is finally getting its wish: Turning the live/work artist studios above the historic concert hall into new offices and classrooms. The Associated Press reports that the last two rent-stabilized holdouts, Elizabeth Sargent and 98-year-old Editta Sherman—who famously demanded a $10 million buyout, then said “they’ll have to drag me out”—have struck agreements and will soon move out. They’ll both head to Midtown apartments where their rent will be subsidized by Carnegie for the rest of their lives (Sherman was paying $650/month). They’re not pleased. Said Sargent, “I’d rather live in these rundown rooms than any new apartment in a glass tower.”

The Carnegie Hall Corp. and its main benefactor, former Citigroup CEO and current 15 Central Park West penthouse resident Sandy Weill, didn’t wait around for the last tenants to leave to start the renovation. The AP describes the current look of the place:

The old stone-and-cast-iron staircases and some original walls will survive, according to architectural plans for the towers obtained by the AP.

What’s left inside is just a shadow of the bustling labyrinth of corridors, stairways and studios where modern American dance took its first steps, created by choreographers like George Balanchine and Martha Graham.

Debris now spills down a stairway leading to a rooftop studio. “SAVE” is scrawled on a wall in red, with a line to guide workers when they chop off a ceiling and skylight built in the 1890s.

Though the towers will be rebuilt to accommodate an expanding music education program, not everyone is convinced that Carnegie Hall has the best intentions in mind. Said one studios supporter: “They’re erasing every piece of our cultural history, and it’s not all for the children. It’s for Sandy Weill events.” C’mon, buddy, that’s what 15 Central Park West’s private dining room is for!
· Elizabeth Sargent, Last Carnegie Hall Towers Resident, Kicked Out [AP via HuffPo]
· Carnegie Hall coverage [Curbed]

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CurbedWire: Classic Haus Hits the Market; Plaza Listing is Too Honest

August 3rd, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

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SCARSDALE—We don’t get up to the wilds of Westchester very often, but when everybody’s favorite 20th-century German architecture movement comes calling, the CurbedWire answers! On the market is 39 Penny Lane, eight bedrooms and 6,000 square feet of Bauhaus goodness designed in 1937 by Paul M. Doering, who studied at the Bauhaus school and came to the U.S. when Hitler shut the institution down. Bonus fun fact: According to a press release, the house was once owned by soap star Gillian Spencer! Surely that means something to someone. Asking price: $1.85 million. More pics on the listing, but we’ve got a foyer shot after the jump. [CurbedWire Inbox]

MIDTOWN—“I thought the good people at Curbed might enjoy this one,” a tipster writes, and we do enjoy anything related to the Plaza. “It is a 1200 sq ft 1-bedroom in the Plaza listed at the improbable price of $5.1 million. The listing states: ‘The apt is specious and faces Central Park.’ According to the OED via Google: spe·cious/ˈspēSHəs/Adjective 2. Misleading in appearance, esp. misleadingly attractive: ‘a specious appearance of novelty.’ I for one appreciate the broker’s unintentional honesty!” [CurbedWire Inbox]

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On the Racked: Nolita’s Fancy Duane Reade Opening Soon; Lost in Forever 21

July 29th, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

And now, the latest from Racked, covering shopping and retail from the sidewalks up.

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1) Nolita: The new Duane Reade flagship at Lafayette and Spring opens Saturday, and it looks like the empire-minded drugstore chain kept the gilded moldings and marble staircase that first sparked its interest in the space.

2) Harlem: Harlem’s new H&M store (remember: cornice) officially opens tomorrow. For those who line up at 10 a.m., there are freebies like t-shirts, gift cards, and meetings with stylists. Everyone else will have to content themselves with $3 dresses.

3) Midtown West: Apparently even a team of four experts can’t know all there is to know about the new Forever 21 in Times Square, though they did know more than the salespeople, who didn’t recognize the clothes they were carrying.

· Racked [ny.racked.com]

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Do-Overs: Plaza Penthouses Getting Rid of That ‘Attic-Like’ Feeling?

July 28th, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

2010_7_plazawindows.jpgBack during the heyday of lawsuits at The Plaza, mysterious Russian financier Andrei Vavilov attempted to get out of his contract for two penthouses in the landmark hotel (pre-Lehman price tag: $53.5 million) by claiming the developers didn’t live up to their promises. One of his biggest complaints was that instead of “unobstructed floor to ceiling windows” giving him fantastic views of Central Park, his penthouses had tiny windows and low ceilings that made the spaces feel “attic-like.” One of those attics, the subject of a different Plaza lawsuit, just ended up in the hands of Picasso-poking casino magnate Steve Wynn for $23 million (it’s not like he can see out of those windows, anyway), but maybe Vavilov had a point: The Plaza’s condo board now wants to make some changes to the added penthouse level.

The Post’s Lois Weiss reports that the board has filed in application with the Landmarks Preservation Commission outlining several cosmetic nips and tucks. For example, the board “wants to dump some of the glass on the penthouse roof and replace it with copper and tile,” and also “change the windows on the vertical wall of the glass addition — presumably to make them more ‘user’ friendly.” The changes would affect three penthouse units, including the Wynn abode, and the LPC will discuss the matter in September. No need to clean out the attics for the construction crews quite yet.
· Facelift eyed for Plaza roof [NYP]
· The Plaza coverage [Curbed]

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Knick Goes Hotel: Times Square’s Knickerbocker building and the…

July 27th, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

2010_6_knickerbocker.jpgTimes Square’s Knickerbocker building and the adjacent lot sold last month after the Dubai government’s investment arm defaulted on the mortgage, but the plans for the two sites were unknown. Their future is now a little less murky: the Knickerbocker building at 1466 Broadway will be converted from office into 400-room hotel, but the owners haven’t decided what to do with the empty lot next door. Stay tuned. [NYP; previously]

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Checking Out?: The 18-story Midtown office building at…

July 26th, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

2010_7_1414sixth.jpgThe 18-story Midtown office building at 1414 Sixth Avenue was slated to be converted into a “six-star” inn from boutique hotel mastermind Ian Schrager, but like many planned six-star projects, the financing is now a bit of a mess. The WSJ reports that a real estate investment firm is angling to hijack ownership of the building after buying up all the debt. It might even go back to being a cubicle farm, in which case we’re going to have to drop the astronomy thing. [WSJ; previously]

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Eater Tastings: Fedora Transfer OK’d; Mad Men Hangouts; A $69 Wiener; More!

July 23rd, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

This week’s top dish from Eater NY, Curbed’s restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog…

1) Chelsea, East Village, Midtown: How about some tasty reveals? Signage is up (above) at the Tenth Avenue location of East Village pizza mecca Artichoke, and the plywood is down at the Bowery diner from the team behind hipster ground zero Freemans. Meanwhile, the new restaurant in the Setai Fifth Avenue from star Italian chef Michael White has a name. Secret revealed right here.

2) Greenwich Village: Community Board 2 has approved the takeover of classic West 4th Street restaurant Fedora by ultra-hip restaurateur Gabe Stuhlman. Original owner Fedora Dorato is still saying her goodbyes. Stop by! Meanwhile, a rent hike from landlord NYU has done in another Village institution, Ennio & Michael.

3) Upper East Side: Bloomingdale’s area tourist trap Serendipity will sell a $69 “haute dog” made with foie gras that will be certified as the world’s most expensive hot dog.

4) NYC: With Season 4 of the ’60s-set show premiering Sunday, Eater revisits some restaurants and bars featured on Mad Men. Some are even still around!

· Eater NY [ny.eater.com]

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Checking In: Glitzy Hotel Makeovers Coming to Battery Park City, Murray Hill

July 23rd, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

2010_7_embassy.jpgEver since Goldman Sachs cut the ticker tape on its new Battery Park City HQ, the investment bank has been working to upgrade its next-door neighbor, the Embassy Suites complex at 102 North End Avenue, which Goldman also owns. Restaurateur Danny Meyer was courted to apply his Midas touch to the dining scene, and now the Downtown Express reports the Embassy Suites itself will become a Conrad Hotel in late 2011. The Conrad chain is an upscale subsidiary of Hilton, and a Hilton rep told the paper that Lower Manhattan’s “relatively low supply of luxury hotel rooms” (take that, Ritz-Carlton, Gild Hall and W!) provided a good opportunity for the company to swoop in. You go, BPC! Just remember to watch your heads during all this excitement.

Meanwhile, in the Murray Hill/Midtown environs, it looks like the new Gansevoort Park will get some competition from another big name in the boutique biz. BD Hotels, the company led by Ira Drukier and Richard Born (of Chambers, Maritime and Greenwich hotels fame) has purchased the vacant 17-story former Salvation Army building at 145 East 39th Street, The Real Deal reports. The building dates back to 1918 (F. Scott Fitzgerald lived there for a spell back when it was the Allerton Hotel) and was designated a city landmark in 2008. It was controversially emptied out by the Salvation Army to facilitate a sale. BD Hotels snatched it up for $28 million and plans to open it as a hotel by the end of 2011, following a renovation that should remove all traces of salvation.
· Conrad Hotels to replace Embassy Suites in BPC [Dowtown Express]
· BD Hotels buys Salvation Army Midtown tower for $28M [Real Deal]

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All Aboard at Moynihan Station: According to the Post, the first…

July 23rd, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

According to the Post, the first phase of converting the Farley Post Office into Moynihan Station will kick off in October. That’s soon! The $267 million first leg will include expanding a connecting corridor between Penn Station and Farley. The full job, which will turn the landmark into a grand Amtrak station that will relieve congestion at Penn Station and make frownie-faced preservationists forget all about that gorgeous old Penn Station that was torn down (OK, maybe not) is expected to be finished in 2016. [NYP]

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Celebrity Real Estate: Inside Tommy Hilfiger’s Finished Fixer-Upper at the Plaza

July 22nd, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

[Photos by Douglas Friedman, via Harper's Bazaar]

It might be best forgotten that Tommy Hilfiger wanted to unload (for $50 million!) his 18th and 19th-floor fixer-upper duplex at the Plaza only two years ago. Because now the fixing up is finished, and the Hilfiger family seems pretty happy with the place, if the smiley slideshow in Harper’s Bazaar is anything to go by. Tommy tells the magazine he and wife Dee “had a vision to create an old-world atmosphere complementing the old-world Plaza,” and they shopped together for furniture to go with their 20-piece Andy Warhol collection. Our lawyers wouldn’t let us swipe all the photos, but in the gallery above, check out what the Hilfigers have done with those tiny windows and the dome.
· Pictures of Tommy Hilfiger’s New York City Apartment at the Plaza [Harper's Bazaar]
· Floorplan Porn: Tommy Hilfiger’s $50 Million Fixer-Upper [Curbed]

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Starchitecture: High Line’s Culture Shed is a Robot in Disguise

July 21st, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

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The announcement of Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Culture Shed (note: real name) on West 30th Street along the High Line arrived not with a bang, but with a meh. We blame the photo of the model, which is still the only visual of the arts space that’s been released, and lacks the whimsy of the firm’s renderings of the High Line, Lincoln Center renovation and the crazy thing with the bubble on top. Because we’re slow, PSFK had to annotate the photo to show us why the Culture Shed is, in fact, cool. And it is! Big sliding canopies! Wheeee! PSFK thinks it may be “NYC’s first transforming building,” so the big lingering question is whether it will end up as an Autobot or Decepticon.
· Culture Shed: NYC’s First Transforming Building? [PSFK]
· Renzo! Scofidio! It’s an Architecture Double-Reveal Friday! [Curbed]

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Rental Reveals: Amenities at New Luxury Rental Tower Include Fire in the Sky

July 21st, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

On a day when we’ve already received word of a new Soho building charging rents starting at $12,000 per month, the $20,000 53rd-floor penthouses at the Beatrice suddenly seem like a, well, perhaps “bargain” isn’t the right word. Less-accountant-scaring? We’re learning more about this Beatrice-over-an-inn-but-don’t-call-it-the-Beatrice-Inn as developer JD Carlisle gets ready to fill the upper half of the Sixth Avenue skyscraper with residents (the bottom floors are Kimpton’s Eventi hotel). The separate residential lobby is at 105 West 29th Street, and apartments have hardwood floors, washers and dryers, granite countertops and deep-soaking tubs (select residences get the glass-enclosed showers). Yawn. What we want to know is where we can par-tay with our Bea boys!

That would be the 54th floor, which will have 6,300 square feet of amenities, including a big “Cloud Lounge” and a 2,600-square-foot terrace with some pretty spectacular views of the river-to-river kind. The Cloud Lounge (above) will have billiards, a fireplace, a kitchen and WiFi access, and hopefully a Paul Sevigny DJ night. There’s also a gym on the 25th floor in addition to the doorman, concierge, parking and valet services. Sounds not unlike the hotel right below, but reservations up here start at $2,750 per month.
· The Beatrice [beatricenyc.com]
· The Beatrice coverage [Curbed]

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DraperWire: For all the Mad Maniacs out…

July 21st, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

2010_7_ddrapes.jpgFor all the Mad Maniacs out there, City Room has a cool piece on the new offices of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. When the new season kicks off on Sunday, the fledgling ad firm will have taken up at—SPOILER ALERT!—the Time & Life Building on Sixth Avenue. That’s right, the “Mad Men” are no longer on Madison. In context, it makes perfect sense. The sleek tower opened five years before the time depicted on the show, and would have been “the perfect location for an upstart firm nurturing an image of being cutting edge.” [City Room]

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On the Racked: Times Square’s Crazy Billboard; Model Mourns Restaurant; More!

July 20th, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

And now, the latest from Racked, covering shopping and retail from the sidewalks up.


[Levi's CONTROVERSIAL (OK, not really) plan to hang a sign on a landmarked Meatpacking District building.]

1) Times Square: Just when you thought Times Square couldn’t get any more frightening, the new megastore from tween outfitter Forever 21 puts up a billboard that is actually “high-tech surveillance equipment.” You have been warned.

2) Nolita: Houston Street oldtimer Café Colonial is gone, replaced by high-end label Rag & Bone. What’s going in the restaurant’s former kitchen? A shoe section!

3) Williamsburg: Model Agyness Deyn is pretty broken up about the rumored shuttering of beloved ‘Burg restaurant Relish. Though maybe she’s just shedding the tears to lose a few extra lbs.

· Racked NY [ny.racked.com]

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Real Estate Sold: Somebody Finally Buys Something at Midtown’s Cassa

July 20th, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

cassafacade.jpgThe 57-unit, rich foreign buyer-seeking, Enrique Norten-designed Cassa NY condo/hotel seemed like it would be a tough sell at around $2,000/square foot. And that was before it raised its prices. But 40 percent of the building sold under its first brokerage, and now the deals are starting to close. Two sales appear to have hit public record so far. One is PH3, which was never officially listed but which has sold for $4.25 million. The second is 39C, which sold for $895,000 but which was, at least at one point, listed for $1.353 million. Has there been some serious behind-the-scenes discounting at Cassa? Or were these sales—the buyers are hidden behind two different LLCs but have the same lawyer—a package deal? The building is known to be a fan of multi-unit buys.
· Sale: 66-70 West 45th Street PH3 [ACRIS]
· 66-70 West 45th Street #39C [ACRIS]
· Cassa NY coverage [Curbed]

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Rats!: Our rodent overlords are making their…

July 20th, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

Our rodent overlords are making their way rapidly downtown: according to a StreetEasy message board poster, “an Army of Rats” now lives in front of Midtown’s The Link. “Maybe they are filming a horror movie in the building,” suggests the poster. It really wouldn’t surprise us. [StreetEasy; previously]

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Flashbacks: Remembering a Hotel Pennsylvania Not on Death Row

July 19th, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

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Travel website users have turned Hotel Pennsylvania horror stories into a competitive sport, but go back about a hundred years and you’ll find Hotel Penn photos of a different type: architecture porn! With the poorly kept up—but still highly profitable—Midtown hotel facing the wrecking ball, we’ve been occasionally hearing from loyal fans of the McKim, Mead & White-designed colossus. One just sent along an Architectural Review story on the hotel from March 1919, urging us to “see what glories once were, and help us Save Hotel Pennsylvania.” Indeed, t’was glorious. Check out the PDF below, as well as a less glorious but more recent lobby shot from a TripAdvisor user.

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Original Hotel Penn 1919
· Hotel Pennsylvania coverage [Curbed]

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Bright Lights, Big City: Five New Buildings That Light Up Our Lives, and Just Won’t Stop

July 19th, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

You can call New York City architects and developers plenty of things, but “Seinfeld fans” is not one of them. Poor Jerry and Kramer were driven temporarily insane by the glowing red menace of a single Kenny Rogers’ Roasters sign, but now the trend is to turn entire buildings into huge Lite Brite boards, adding Broadway glitz to neighborhoods that in some cases are nowhere near Times Square. Will the neighbors become a sleep-deprived zombie army hellbent on revenge? It’s too soon to tell, but we’re sitting on a cache of rifles just in case. Here are five shining examples of what we’re talking about:

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5) Gansevoort Park: Sure, there’s a Gansevoort hotel with “light columns” in the Meatpacking District, but that’s pretty restrained for the circus that is MePa. The huge color-changing glowstick on the chain’s new hotel on Park Avenue South is, shall we say, more distracting. We’ve seen the light show previewed, and this latest look comes from MadParkNews. “Mad” may be a theme when the nightlife-loving hotel opens this month.

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4) Eventi: This 54-story hotel/apartment tower is livening up (or lighting up) a Sixth Avenue no-man’s-land just south of Midtown and north of Chelsea, so most folks probably won’t have an issue with the illumination sensation. However, the threat of the rotating lights being projected onto Sixth Avenue makes us want to take a moment to remind taxi passengers to buckle up.

3) The Metropol: It takes a lot to stand out in Williamsburg, where new buildings spring to life like kudzu. It takes…blinding, wavy LED patterns covering an entire facade. Yes, the Burg’s strangest apartments/movie theater hybrid is a mind-blower, which might be why it hasn’t yet found its audience. Brownstoner recently noted that the building, at 136 Metropolitan Avenue, was sold, and the nine condo units have gone rental.

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2) Murano: When a new condo building has a moat, and that’s only the second strangest thing about it, we know we’re in a brave new world. That world is called Long Island City, where the Murano’s “light clock” located halfway up the building changes colors every hour, thanks to some LED magic. Get ready for a sudden outbreak of UFO sightings along the L.I.E.

1) Hotel Hell: The three neighboring budget hotels next to the Port Authority designed by architect Gene Kaufman all have some quirky features, including the funhouse-on-acid effect seen in the video clip above. This is really the only one in the bunch that has seen a notable level of backlash (hence the “Hotel Hell” nickname), but if you can’t build something crazy like this next to an ugly bus station in Midtown, well, then the lightbulb that lives inside all our imaginations has gone dark forever. Er, sorry, we’ve been staring at the colors too long.

Any more? Leave ‘em in the comments, or send pics to tips@curbed.com.

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Eater Tastings: New Plan for Bowery’s Amato Opera Includes Bar, Theater; More!

July 16th, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

This week’s top dish from Eater NY, Curbed’s restaurant, bar, and nightlife blog…

1) East Village: Shuttered and sold Bowery icon the Amato Opera will come back as a “new bar/restaurant/theater experience” from the owners of the V Bar mini-chain. More details (think magicians) right here.

2) Union Square: This week in Union Square T.G.I. Friday’s news: ribbon cuttings! stils! politician no-shows! greenmarket?

3) Midtown: The Times Square Shake Shack is so young, yet is already exhibiting the characteristics of its older brothers. Crazy line alert!

4) Greenwich Village: When the gastropubs of West 8th Street (lookin’ at you, Rabbit in the Moon) start adopting Miami club tactics, it’s time for us all to look deep within ourselves and ask the important question of what it all means. We miss the Shoe District!

· Eater NY [ny.eater.com]

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Name Games: The developers of the Beatrice-over-inn luxury…

July 16th, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

2010_7_bea.jpgThe developers of the Beatrice-over-inn luxury rentals tell The Real Deal the project’s name has nothing to do with the dearly departed West Village hotspot the Beatrice Inn. It was named after someone’s grandmother. Adorable. As for rents in the Sixth Avenue skyscraper, they’ll range from $2,700 per month to over $20,000 per month. Amenities include getting to live above a food court staffed by replicants. [Real Deal; previously]

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Real Estate Sold: Plaza Apartment Takes $2.4 Million Loss After Two-Year Try

July 15th, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

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Not every apartment at the Plaza can find its Prince Charming Steve Wynn. Among the less fortunate is #1609, which sold in February 2008 for $14,740,466. Its buyer, an LLC, attempted a flip only a few months later, listing the place for $18,000,000. It’s been sitting on the market collecting PriceChops ever since, hitting a low of $13.9 million last October. The sale has finally closed, and the seller was even more willing to negotiate: the LLC-masked buyer paid only $12.35 million in one of the few deals where the words “only” and “$12.35 million” go together.

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· 1 Central Park South #1609 [StreetEasy]
· Sale: Plaza #1609 [ACRIS]
· Plaza coverage [Curbed]

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On the Racked: Calvin Klein Covers Up; Abercrombie Line Out of Control; More!

July 15th, 2010    Posted in Manhattan Homes Real Estate News
 

And now, the latest from Racked, covering shopping and retail from the sidewalks up.

1) Lower East Side: Rivington Street icon Economy Candy was closed for a few days to replace the floors. They were pretty darn adorable about it.

2) Noho: Maybe he’s tired of the backlash? Calvin Klein’s newest Houston Street billboard drops the sex in favor of a random pattern of red dots. Oh, that can be unlocked by smartphones to reveal a video clip of models frolicking? That sounds more like it!

3) Midtown: Has the Bedbugs scandal hurt business at Abercrombie & Fitch at all? It’s safe to say it hasn’t, bros.

· Racked [ny.racked.com]

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