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This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings

 Theo Wenner’s palazzo, a six-bedroom in Ocean Hill, and a pair of especially-nice West Village rentals. By Nora DeLigter
  1. 2024 Will Be a Better Year for Homebuyers But not exactly great.
    By Kim Velsey
  2. Define ‘Penthouse’ From low-rises to tiny top floors in new developments, brokers are getting increasingly creative with their use of “PH.”
    By Clio Chang
  3. An $8,500-a-Month, Influencer-‘Renovated’ Two-Bedroom Pretty in the Pines is leaving her Central Park West apartment, and its peel-and-stick moldings, behind.
    By Kim Velsey
  4. When New York’s Biggest Private Landlords Are Columbia and NYU A new bill proposes the schools start paying taxes accordingly.
    By Clio Chang
  5. Kickstarter’s Greenpoint Office Is Becoming a Hype House A talent agency plans to turn it into a members-only campus.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  6. Ronald S. Lauder Sold His Tiny Philip Johnson Home The Rockefeller Guest House, which once stored its original owner’s art collection, was an off-market listing.
    By Kim Velsey
  7. The $3,500 No-Kitchen Apartment Getting by with a mini-fridge and hot plate used to mean cheap rent. Now it’s a “versatile” amenity.
    By Clio Chang
  8. The Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture Mansion’s Not-So-Secret Buyer City records haven’t posted yet, but that hasn’t stopped brokers from talking.
    By Kim Velsey
  9. The Landlords Are Merging Two organizations representing owners of rent-stabilized buildings across the city may be teaming up because one of them is going broke.
    By Clio Chang
  10. One of New York’s Most Secretive Real-Estate Families Goes Succession A lawsuit reveals squabbling and allegations of mismanagement among the heirs to Solil Management’s billion-dollar portfolio
    By Kim Velsey
  11. They’ll Never Leave This 5,800-Square-Foot Loft No matter how much money you throw at them.
    By Lane Brown
  12. Landlords Are Tanking Their Tenants’ Credit Scores An increasingly popular tactic to pressure tenants to pay rent on time.
    By Clio Chang
  13. Landlord King Charles Has Shady Methods He’s been secretly upgrading his portfolio with money from his dead subjects.
    By Clio Chang
  14. The ‘Airbnb Alternative’ Black Market New York’s Airbnb crackdown has driven hosts and visitors back to Craigslist and neighborhood listserves.
    By Kim Velsey
  15. Plaza Regret The prevailing wisdom is that you pretty much can’t make a bad real-estate investment in Manhattan. Plaza buyers might disagree.
    By Kim Velsey
  16. A Moody $399,000 Cottage in Phoenicia and an Updated Colonial Near Hudson Plus a mid-century charmer with a footbridge.
    By Curbed Staff
  17. Manhattan’s Trophy Apartments Are Gathering Dust There just aren’t enough billionaires, and no one wants to live in Hudson Yards.
    By Kim Velsey
  18. Stephen Sondheim’s Connecticut Home Is for Sale It’s still stuffed with his treasures: signed posters, a grand piano, and the show posters that showed his life’s work.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  19. Upstate Buyers Are Too Rich for Airbnb Now People making all-cash offers don’t need the extra income, and they don’t like to share.
    By Kim Velsey
  20. A Turn-of-the-Century Portrait Painter’s Studio in Gramercy Park There’s a 14th-century fireplace mantel, library ladders, and a loft space.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  21. Matt Drudge Lists Very Beige Miami Compound for $2.9 Million The secluded property promises buyers “FOREVER PRIVACY.”
    By Clio Chang
  22. Ken Griffin Is Building the Most Expensive House in the World And it will almost certainly get swallowed by the ocean.
    By Clio Chang
  23. The Union Square Duplex Where Taylor Swift Took the 1989 Polaroids Is for Sale The door marked up with lyrics is still there, preserved by the owner.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  24. There’s a West Village Frankenmansion on the Market It involves two 1840s townhouses and a former auto shop behind them.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  25. Rent Stabilization Isn’t Going to the Supreme Court This Time The justices declined to hear a case against rent regulation brought by New York landlord groups. But there will be others.
    By Clio Chang
  26. Battery Park City’s Early-Aughts Rentals Go Luxe A Robert A.M. Stern building, before and after big money changed the downtown buyer’s landscape.
    By Kim Velsey
  27. I Didn’t Know My Broker Was a Bot Renters hoping to meet Brook E. and Emily O. at that Greenpoint open house will be sorely disappointed.
    By Clio Chang
  28. Trump Doesn’t Own the Most Expensive Apartment That’s Ever Existed in NYC If a judge’s ruling stands, Trump, who committed fraud by exaggerating the value of his real estate, may even lose control of Trump Tower.
    By Kim Velsey
  29. Beverly’s Is Making It Permanent Beverly Nguyen’s roaming homewares pop-up signed a lease at 27 Orchard.
    By Clio Chang
  30. A Gramercy Park Apartment With Two Private Terraces (and a Key to the Park) The combined 11th-floor unit also comes with two kitchens.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  31. Zombie Renovations Are Coming Landlords are claiming that work completed decades ago is grounds to take a building out of rent regulation. What’s a tenant supposed to do?
    By Clio Chang
  32. A Classic West End Avenue Apartment That Became an Art Archive 58 years ago, the photographer Joel Meyerowitz rented an apartment to raise his family. It found other uses.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  33. Curbed September Report: Rainy Open Houses and Midtown East Still on Top Plus, the listings that brokers are obsessed with.
    By Curbed Staff
  34. Who’s Selling A Condo Staged With Tons of Acting Awards? Jeremy Strong, of course.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  35. A Sutton Place Penthouse That Just Won’t Move Lisa Perry’s pop art co-op has faced three price cuts in as many years.
    By Kim Velsey
  36. The Townhouse Where Ivana Trump Died Has Been Hard to Sell Will a $4 million price cut help?
    By Clio Chang
  37. Ask an Airbnb Host If You Can Rent Their Apartment With a little convincing, that soon-to-be de-listed garden unit could be yours.
    By Clio Chang
  38. Airbnb Hosts Are Feeling Abandoned As the city prepares to crack down on short-term rentals, the hosts say the company is out of its depth.
    By Molly Osberg
  39. Atelier Jolie Has Been Defaced The former Basquiat studio turned Angelina Jolie concept project has been painted pink.
    By Clio Chang
  40. ‘Just Befriend the Doorman and Don’t Arouse Suspicion’ E-bike riders are sneaking past their buildings’ bans with flattery (and sometimes deception).
    By Clio Chang
  41. Get Ready to Spend $5,000 on That Floor of a Brownstone “I get applications and people are making half a million a year in income. One person.”
    By Kim Velsey
  42. The Menace of the Megamansion Buyers who are turning multiunit buildings into single-family palaces have taken away hundreds of thousands of housing units.
    By Kim Velsey
  43. The Case of the $13.5 Million Price Gap Why did two nearly identical penthouses at 150 Charles sell for vastly different amounts?
    By Adriane Quinlan
  44. A Myron Goldfinger Mansion That’s Never Been on the Market The architect, who died this month, designed a unique pinwheel layout to give a family with teenagers enough privacy.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  45. Should Landlords Cover Broker Fees? Talking to a broker who thinks Chi Ossé’s new bill will be better for everyone involved.
    By Clio Chang
  46. Curbed’s August Report: An All-Cash Summer and Frenzied Open Houses Plus the most saved one-bedroom under $1 million.
    By Curbed Staff
  47. A Developer and a Landlord Go to War Over 22 Air Conditioners Extell’s Diamond District neighbor is trying to claim the air next door.
    By Kim Velsey
  48. Mad Montauk Art Neighbors A yearlong squabble over Warhol proximity has ended with a slap.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  49. They Tried to Make a ‘New Hamptons’ The New York Post chose the unsuspecting town of Atlantic Beach.
    By Clio Chang
  50. WeWork’s Own Office Leasing Apocalypse The company was struggling long before its grim announcement this week.
    By Kim Velsey
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