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My Doomed Hunt for a House in the Rockaways

I was ready to buy a home in a neighborhood I loved. Was I delusional?
  1. This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings Not one but two full Tudors.
  2. Arthur Sulzberger Jr. Is Moving to Morningside Heights The former New York Times publisher bought a $2.45 million condo in the Robert A.M. Stern–designed Claremont Hall.
  3. Apple-Picking With Your Luxury Building Sounds Miserable Developers are trying to make adult field trips a hot new amenity for renters.
  4. Two Balconies and a Grand Courtyard on E. 78th for $500,000 And a Brooklyn Heights two-bedroom co-op that doesn’t require board approval.
  5. Bill Ackman Is Getting Out of the Beresford The hedge-fund billionaire is selling two units for a total of $20 million.
  6. The Trump Luxury Bump All-cash buyers in Manhattan seemed to be feeling pretty good last week, setting a seasonal high for contracts signed.
  7. The Black Hole on Columbia Heights An Italianate mansion mysteriously left to rot on Matt Damon’s Brooklyn Heights block.
  8. A Reckoning for the Dilettante Real-Estate Agent Professional brokers are hoping new industry rules might cull the amateurs.
  9. Good-bye to the Broker Fee The City Council voted today to stop your landlord from passing his expenses on to you.
  10. A Clinton Hill One-Bedroom With an Ideal Layout for $685,000 And a handsome little studio that made us reconsider the Financial District.
  11. A Former Arts Colony With a Saltwater Pool in Woodstock And a David Henken retreat in the woods for less than a million.
  12. ‘I Don’t Think There’s Anything in This Apartment That Wasn’t Custom’ This Noho duplex on the market is full of clever interventions.
  13. A Kips Bay One-Bedroom With Brownstone Charm for $595,000 And a Greenwich Village studio with lovely built-ins and a Murphy bed.
  14. The Weird Worth of 40 Wall Street Donald Trump’s most troubled real estate could soon become a slick machine to curry favor with the president.
  15. Elon Musk Wants a Big Love Compound The billionaire has so far bought three neighboring mansions in Austin to house his 11 children and at least some of their moms.
  16. What Might Be the Nicest $700,000 One-Bedroom in Brooklyn And a Harlem two-bed that almost feels too affordable to be true.
  17. The Phone-Detox Amenity At the all-electric 505 State Street, residents are asked to unplug.
  18. Chobani House Is Coming The company is leasing every floor of 360 Bowery and carving out part of it as a laboratory for nonprofits.
  19. Douglas Elliman CEO Howard Lorber Is Out — But Why Now? Head of the brokerage for more than two decades, Lorber faced criticism for his handling of complaints against Tal and Oren Alexander.
  20. Raffi Is Selling His House The musician and activist’s Salt Spring Island three-bedroom has wood beams and ocean views and is going for $1.875 million.
  21. A Fitting End to the Saga of Rudy Giuliani’s Apartment “America’s mayor” always wanted a penthouse. Now the Georgia election workers he defamed own it.
  22. How to Look at Zillow With John Wilson A landlord’s offer spurred the documentarian and HBO host to go on a listings deep dive.
  23. A Wonderfully Sprawling Lenox Hill Three-Bedroom for $849,000 And a charming Woodside one-bedroom with a delightful little price.
  24. An ‘Italian Hill Town’ for Biohackers and Crypto CEOs Welcome to Esmeralda.
  25. A Golf Simulator Is Never Far Astroturf, projector screens, and men in deep concentration over their swings are taking over Manhattan (and some of Brooklyn).
  26. An Inn From 1807 With a Separate Carriage House in Stone Ridge And a stunning post-and-beam home with warm stone and river views in High Falls.
  27. A Hidden Artist’s Complex Behind Spring Street A screenwriter recruited friends to fix up a tenement in Nolita. In the half-century since, it’s housed artists, editors, and Laila Gohar.
  28. The Fight Over the Chrysler Building Is Getting Weird Aby Rosen’s RFR claims Cooper Union’s handling of student protests drove away tenants. Where is all of this heading?
  29. No One Wants to Live Near TikTokers From Dumbo to the West Village, brokers say hordes of content creators are giving clients cold feet.
  30. The Panic About the Parapets A new regulation about roofline walls is making brownstone owners anxious. Does it apply to them? Can they get out of it? Are they being exploited?
  31. The Via Carota Chefs Are Selling Their West Village Apartment Jody Williams and Rita Sodi’s kitchen is appropriately stunning.
  32. Jonathan Safran Foer’s Ditmas Park Mansion Just Listed for $35,000 a Month It has a saltwater pool out back.
  33. The Nantucket Buyers Betting Against Losing It All A waterfront house might last for two years or ten. These homeowners are willing to take the risk.
  34. A Frank Lloyd Wright Homage in Chappaqua Plus a four-bedroom Catskills A-frame cabin renovated by a food critic.
  35. An Abandoned Red Hook Building Redesigned for a Cookbook Author An open kitchen on the top floor meant Jessie Sheehan could perfect her recipes and look out onto the New York Harbor.
  36. A Chelsea One-Bedroom With a Pool for Under a Million Plus a loftlike Park Slope one-bed with tin ceilings and two working fireplaces.
  37. The Apartment That Cereal Milk Built Is for Sale Christina Tosi and Will Guidara are selling their Chelsea floor-through for $5.895 million.
  38. You Need to Earn More Than $200,000 a Year to Buy in New York City Which is actually slightly lower than last year.
  39. Derek Lam Is Selling His Gramercy Park Apartment The fashion designer is listing his place — which he completely redesigned — at a nearly $1 million loss.
  40. So Far, the New Broker-Fee Rules Are Good for Sellers As for whether housing prices go down, don’t bet on it.
  41. A Crown Heights Three-Bedroom With a Roof Deck for Under a Million Plus some very appealing red pocket doors in Park Slope.
  42. A Peacock Enclosure in Greenwich and Other Things We Dug Up This Week A new series on all the small but notable things we noticed from our sweep of real estate listings
  43. Ian Schrager Is Selling His Dumbo Loft For nearly the same price he bought it for seven years ago.
  44. A Clinton Hill One-Bedroom Plus Office for Under a Million Plus a true three-bedroom in Red Hook and a loftlike one-bed on the Lower East Side.
  45. What Even Is a Buyer’s Market These Days? And are we in one yet?
  46. The Flatiron Will Go Condo Plans have been revealed for a conversion to 60 very nice apartments, some of them pointy.
  47. An Upper West Side Studio That Can Pass for a One-Bedroom for $469,000 Plus a Horatio Street studio with a lovely shared garden and a Turtle Bay one-bedroom with a Juliet balcony.
  48. Everything We Know About the Federal Lawsuit Against RealPage The company is accused of running a nationwide “scheme with landlords to break the law.”
  49. A Converted Church With 30-Foot Ceilings in Hudson And the mid-century home of Robert Sherman, a longtime classical-music radio host.
  50. A Concert Pianist’s Duplex Penthouse With a Huge Private Terrace The acoustics at the Upper West Side studio building have regularly drawn pianists and opera stars.
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