On the market for the first time since 1998, this landmarked townhouse in the federal style is so money it doesn't even know it! According to The AIA Guide to New York, the Tabak Is Tribeca listing once... MORE >
New York has never been much for cobblestone and colonnade, vistas seeping historical vernacular and cocooning inhabitants in fantasies of a past continuum. Famously amnesiac, its building stock chronically provisional, New York offers a past that comes at us in fits and starts--a sideways glimpse, a shimmering peripheral vision at best. Mostly, though, we rehash it through our great municipal pastime, the blood sport of New York real... MORE >
There have been thousands of foreclosures in the city -- and thousands more to come! -- but none, that The Observer knows of, have involved a drug and alcohol rehab center, certainly not in the city's most expensive... MORE >
Ask most New Yorkers how they feel about the acres of construction scaffolding encircling the city's buildings, and they will respond with contempt. Short of keeping construction debris and rain off our heads, their main job is to annoy. Scaffolding blocks out the sun and the beautiful architecture. It makes jaywalking and tourist-passing all the more difficult. And now, it helps burglars break into... MORE >
Last week came the news that a prominent plot on Broadway, one of the last great development sites left in Tribeca, was to be auctioned off. Accompanying the sale was a new design for 5 Franklin Place that replaced a well-regarded one by Dutch starchitect Ben Van... MORE >
Can good design survive the recession? We may find out when, or even if, anything ever gets built at 5 Franklin Place in... MORE >
Celebrities--they're just like us, even when it comes to the city's interminable buildings bureaucracy. Even a local legend like Robert De Niro can't escape the Landmarks Preservation Commission's grasp, though in the end he got what he wanted. Then again, when doesn't the Godfather of... MORE >
Wall Street Plaza is a 33-floor building at 88 Pine Street that rises up beside the East River in Lower Manhattan. Famed architecture firm Pei Cobb Freed and Partners designed the tower in the late 1960s, and the building now houses the firm's offices. The owners say that this fact-that it boasts the signature I.M. Pei touch-makes the building "iconic." So iconic, in fact, that to allow a newsstand in front of it would... MORE >
In 2007, Rohan Oza was named one of New York's Rising Stars in Crain's 40 Under 40 list. So, it's no surprise that just three years later—and still two years shy of his 40th birthday—the Zambia-raised, Britain-educated marketing magician has opted for a $5,272,600 tower loft in Tribeca with prime views of the New York starscape (himself excluded). Mr.... MORE >
The Fairchild, a 21-unit condo development at 55 Vestry Street, has ushered its fair share of boldface names through its north Tribeca doors—James Gandolfini is an investor, and, according to the New York Post, casual open-house hunters have included mega-couples such as Jessica Alba and husband Cash Warren and Brazilian bombshell Adriana Lima and NBA beau Marko... MORE >
Manhattan real estate is an extreme thing. One morning the entire facade of a vacant five-story Tribeca walk-up will crumble, and four months later that building’s owner will put his Central Park brownstone on the market for well over $10 million. After 71 Reade Street’s collapse during the Buildings Department’s Construction Safety Week in late April, The Times reported that owner Aharon Vaknin had been fined thousands over his walk-up’s stucco facade.... MORE >
Back in March, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons posted a report indicating that while the demand for plastic surgery procedures was down because of the recession, injectible beauty products like Botox were faring... MORE >
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Brown Harris Stevens announced today that the four condos that comprise Tribeca's 40 Walker Street, a former textile factory built in 1849, have hit the sales market. Broker Reid Price has the exclusive. The three full-floor two-bedrooms and the three-bedroom penthouse range in asking price from $2.795 million to $6.995 million.... MORE >
Just north of the Financial District, ironically enough. According to a Forbes magazine analysis, the zip code 10013, which covers most of Tribeca (as well as some of Soho, Little Italy and Nolita) is the most expensive within New York City and the 14th most expensive nationwide. ... MORE >
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