Speechless Sunday - 7/31/11 - Sunset on the Upper West Side - 07/31/11 09:47 AM

Sunset on the Upper West Side of Manhattan between the two art deco towers of the Normandy, the Hudson River, New Jersey and beyond. The Normandy built in 1938 and designed by the esteemed architect Emery Roth is a landmarked building on Riverside Drive between 86th and 87th Street divided into two wings North and South with separate elevator vestibules. The Normandy is a full service coop. Available apartments range from an alcove studio to a 3 bedroom from $449,000 to $2.5 million.
 
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Mitchell Hall, Associate Broker, The Corcoran Group
Manhattan Apartment Seller Manhattan Apartment … (9 comments)

Largest Apple Store - Grand Central Terminal in The Big Apple - 07/25/11 08:22 PM

Courtesy of MTA
Apple has signed a ten year deal with New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority to open the largest Apple Store yet within Grand Central Terminal.
Apple will pay the MTA (Metropolitan Transit Association) $800,000 in rent annually for the station's north and northwest balconies, nearly three times as much rent as Charlie Palmer's Metrazur restaurant (named after a commuter train that once ran along the Cote d'Azur en route to Monaco) was paying. In ten years, Apple's rent will go up to a million dollars annually. Apple will be paying to refurbish the space, and must work with … (44 comments)

Speechless Sunday - July 24, 2011 - Mazel Tov! - 07/24/11 12:25 PM

B'nai Jeshurun - 257 West 88th Street on the Upper West Side is the second oldest synogogue in Manhattan
While hundreds of people have been waiting to get married this morning at the Marriage Bureau on Worth Street, B'nai Jeshurun was at the forefront of the fight to make this a reality. Five years ago, congregants formed a Marriage Equality Hevra, a term meaning "community," to join the campaign for the passage of gay marriage as part of the synagogue's social justice initiative.

The synagogue has been administering same sex commitment ceremonies since 1991 but today New York State … (6 comments)

Pop Up Chapels of Love - New York Making History on Sunday - 07/22/11 02:12 PM

Number of Couples Married on Sunday will be Highest in NYC History
Data Collected Since July 5th Shows Number of Couples Seeking to Marry on Sunday Could be Four Times More than the All-Time Single Day High in New York City.
This Sunday, starts an historic new chapter in New York State. Any couple, regardless of sexual orientation, can be married in New York and have that marriage recognized by the state they call home.
From the very start, this has been an issue of equality, fairness and respect. It has been about recognizing that all of us are equal … (7 comments)

Wordless Wednesday: The Busker of Morningside Heights - 07/20/11 11:02 AM
 
Morningside Heights is the academic quarter of New York City. It stretches irregularly from north of 96th Street to about 125th Street between Morningside Park and Riverside Park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Morningside Heights is home to Columbia University, Barnard College, Union Theological Seminary, Jewish Theological Seminary, Bank St. College of Education and Manhattan School of Music.
Nick Moyer, the Busker of Morningside Heights can be seen on accordian, trumpet and baking dish near Columbia University at 103rd street subway station.

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Congress: Make Higher Loan Limits Permanent? - 07/13/11 07:56 AM
Back in June, I wrote a featured post: Urgent No More High Balance Conforming Loans for Manhattan. The post was to inform buyers and sellers about the end of High Balance Conforming loans in expensive housing markets such as Manhattan.
Effective October 1, 2011 the temporary emergency legislation Congress enacted in 2008 that raised the limits on conforming loans in expensive housing markets like NYC (Manhattan) expires and is not expected to be extended. In October the amount will be lowered from $729,750 to $625,500 for a High Balance Conforming Loan.

In an article by Alan Zibel in yesterday’s Wall … (5 comments)

New York Leads Nation in Rising Home Prices - 07/06/11 11:22 AM
New York led a second consecutive month of U.S. housing price gains, according to the May Housing Price Index released by CoreLogic and reported by Adam Fusfeld in The Real Deal Nationwide home prices rose slightly in May compared to April, but remained far below their levels a year ago. Including distressed sales, prices rose 0.8 percent compared to April, but were stuck at 7.4 percent less than May 2010. Excluding distressed sales, the year-over-year decline was just 0.4 percent.  New York showed the strongest gain of any state in the country, as home prices rose 4.4 percent in May compared … (10 comments)

 
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