Goodbye, Glitzy Condo Pitches

The recession halted many condominium projects in New York City, but some are back on the market with a new look and new prices.




Habitats: Caretakers of a Vanishing Little Italy

An 1899 town house on East 116th Street, owned by a performance artist and her husband, is a time capsule of a neighborhood’s Italian-American heyday.




Streetscapes | Grand Central: Covering Its Tracks Paid Off Handsomely

With Grand Central Terminal, there is a network of fragments of what was conceived as Terminal City, a unified matrix of development atop the new real estate created when the tracks and railroad yards were covered.




Living In: Hudson Square

Variously known as West SoHo and the South Village, Hudson Square has luxury residential buildings, interspersed with a fair amount of commercial space.




The Appraisal: Client to Broker: Clean My Windows!

In today’s market, some New York brokers say they have never encountered so many demands from their clients, or so much hostility.




Big Deal: Liam Neeson Sells Manhattan Co-op

The actor sold his two-bedroom apartment on Central Park West for $1.35 million.




Housing Fades as a Means to Build Wealth, Analysts Say

Many economists believe that the days of banking on an asset that could only rise in value are gone for good.




The Hunt: A Lot of Laundry, and a Little Luck

Piles of laundry and mobs of people no longer plague a couple who left Manhattan for Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.




Mortgages: New Online Help From Fannie Mae

A new Web site for struggling borrowers has information in two languages, and explanatory videos.




In the Region | New Jersey: A Chill in High-End Alpine

In one of the country’s costliest ZIP codes, activity and prices have declined.