You're Invited to NYC Grows - 04/24/10 11:23 AM

     NYC Grows 
 
     Sunday, April 25, 2010     10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

     Union Square Park, Manhattan     14th Street to 17th Street and Broadway
       Rain or Shine
 
 
New York Restoration Project (NYRP) and the NYC Parks Department, along with presenting sponsor Organic Gardening magazine, invite New Yorkers to this annual, FREE outdoor festival that promotes community gardening, tree planting and care, urban farming and sustainable living.
NYC Grows is FREE and open to the public and will feature activities for all ages, including:
Gardening and tree-planting workshops Organic cooking demonstrations Greenmarket with locally grown … (5 comments)

Doorman Building Worker Strike Deadline Tonight - 04/20/10 01:04 PM
Buildings throughout NYC are preparing for a doorman building strike. Residents are being issued security passes and strike packages and signing up for volunteer building duties. Negotiations between the Realty Advisory Board and local 32BJ have resumed this morning. The contract covering 30,000 building workers expires tonight at 11:59 pm.The union has been running ads featuring doormen and porters with Headlines: "Its Hard Getting by in New York.....and Only Getting Harder"  and ads with the headline: 50 YEARS OF SERVICE

Robocalls featuring actress Cynthia Nixon have been calling apartment residents urging them to stand with building workers.
 
The following statement can be … (9 comments)

Pomander Walk: The Upper West Side's Best Kept Secret - 04/18/10 11:30 AM

One of the Upper West Side's best-kept secrets is a tiny Tudor village tucked between Broadway and West End Avenue. Pomander Walk was built in 1921 to resemble the London set of a hit play of that era called Pomander Walk.
The Pomander Walk enclave of European-styled townhouses runs a full block on the Upper West Side. The townhomes align a narrow block which stretches from 94th to 95th Street between West End Avenue and Broadway. There are 27 Tudor-styled townhomes, with 63 co-operative apartments behind the exclusive gated enclave. 
 

An urban oasis with English gardens, Pomander Walk … (16 comments)

Murray Hill Historic District Tour - 04/17/10 11:08 AM

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Greenwich Village House Tour - 04/17/10 10:42 AM
 

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Governors Island: A Treasure in the Middle of New York Harbor - 04/12/10 08:45 AM
City and State Release Governors Island Park and Public Space Master Plan for 87 Acres of Open Green Space

(images courtesy: West 8 / Rogers Marvel Architects / Diller Scofidio + Renfro / Mathews Nielsen / Urban Design +.)

City Will Have Primary Responsibility to Develop and Operate the Island Governors Island is one of the nine waterfront destinations that comprise NYHarborWay. The nine destinations are Hudson River Park, The Battery, Ellis Island, Statue Liberty Island, Atlantic Basin, East River Esplanade, Governors Island, and Brooklyn Bridge Park. All of the sites are accessible by ferry, and except for the … (7 comments)

Upper West Side First Quarter 2010 Market Report: - 04/10/10 11:01 AM
 
Bidding wars in the 1st Quarter of 2010 - Two Bedrooms in Demand
Buyers are buying because they need a place to call home, and not for investment purposes.
 
RESALE:  UPPER WEST SIDE
West Side co-ops had solid median price increases versus last quarter, including a 17% climb in two-bedroom median price.
Compared to last year, all bedroom categories are down in median price, except two-bedrooms. But with more sales of larger apartments, overall median price still increased 11%. Resale condos increased 4% in median price from a year ago, but decreased 4% in average price per square foot, … (5 comments)

Wordless Wednesday: Spring is in the Air - 04/07/10 03:01 PM

Spring Is In The Air as Macy's Herald Square is transformed into a wonderland of spectacular gardens where magic reaches new heights and floral fantasies take flight! This year's show features 10 different garden environments, including Palm and Topiary gardens, and over 30,000 different varieties of exotic trees, flowering plants and brilliant color as far as the eye can see.

 
iPhone photos courtesy of:
Mitchell Hall, Associate Broker, The Corcoran Group
Apartment and Townhouse listings by email
How much is your Manhattan apartment or townhouse worth in today's market?
©Mitchell Hall 2010
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Futuristic Subway Station Opens on Upper West Side of Manhattan - 04/06/10 07:47 PM
The subway station of the future opened on the Upper West Side

96th Street Subway Headhouse now open. Entrance in the middle of Broadway

The subway station is still under construction

The headhouse is to be completed by September, the entire station won't be completed until next year

The Broadway Mall Community Center
Old building accross the street originally built as public restroom
The station is the 27th busiest in the subway system, with an average weekday customer count of 34,000, not including transfers. It first opened on October 27, 1904, as part of the city's first … (8 comments)

Riverside Boulevard: Manhattan's Exciting New Neighborhood - 04/03/10 11:55 PM
Riverside Boulevard is perhaps the most exciting new community in Manhattan. The new west coast extends along the Hudson River from West 59th Street to West 72nd Street on 92 waterfront acres, formerly occupied by the Pennsylvania Rail Road yards.
Donald Trump bought the property back in the 1970's. After a few failed proposals for the Riverside South property including the world’s tallest building at 152 stories named Television City, hoping to entice NBC as prime tenant, in 1991 Trump and a coalition of community and civic groups agreed to reduce the project’s size by 40% to 8.3 million square feet.
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