53 East 77th Street

Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts 12/1 5:39A Zeynep Turan

Building Name 53 East 77th Street Architect Henry Rutgers Marshall and built in 1900-01, altered by Pleasants Pennington in 1926-27 Year(s) Built 1900-01 Project Information: A modified neo-Spanish Renaissance style residence altered by Pleasants...

950 Park Avenue

Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts 12/1 4:54A Zeynep Turan

Building Name 950 Park Avenue Architect J.E.R. Carpenter Year(s) Built 1919-20 Designation Park Avenue Historic District Project Information: A Renaissance Revival apartment building designed by...

Map: See where the city’s newly popular 99-unit buildings are going

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 11/30 11:33P Eddie Small

New York developers learned a new favorite number this year: 99. The amount of buildings real estate firms planned with exactly 99 units skyrocketed in 2025 as companies attempted to navigate the rules and requirements of the 485-x affordable...

H&M to close two Manhattan stores in January

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 11/25 7:47A C. J. Hughes

Retail chain H&M will shutter two Manhattan locations in late January and lay off 62 employees from the stores, according to state layoff filings. The stores, located in the Upper East Side and Financial District, were underperforming, an H&M...

Japanese firm buys SoHo luxury rental building

CrainsNewYork.com (Arts) 11/24 10:09A Eddie Small

Another Japanese firm has scooped up a multifamily property in Manhattan as the country's renewed surge of interest in the New York asset class continues. Hanshin Juken, a real estate firm based in Fukushima, has purchased 212 Lafayette St. in...

870 Fifth Avenue

Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts 11/24 3:19A Zeynep Turan

Building Name 870 Fifth Avenue Architect William I. Hohauser Year(s) Built 1948-49 Designation Upper East Side Historic District Extension Project Information: A Modern style apartment house designed...

779 Fifth Avenue

Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts 11/24 3:12A Zeynep Turan

Building Name 779 Fifth Avenue Architect Schultze & Weaver and Buchman & Kahn Year(s) Built 1926-27 Designation Upper East Side Historic District Project Information: A neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic...

Upper East Side co-op bounces from one real estate clan to another

CrainsNewYork.com (Media & Entertainment) 11/19 8:41A C. J. Hughes

An Upper East Side spread has passed from one real estate family to another.   The estate of Christiane MacArthur, a French former model whose in-laws owned Midtown office towers and much of Florida, sold a 3,500-square-foot co-op on Fifth Avenue...

Japanese firm scoops up Kips Bay apartment building for $10.4M

CrainsNewYork.com (Arts) 11/19 7:15A Eddie Small

A Tokyo-based real estate firm purchased a multifamily building in Kips Bay for $10.4 million, showcasing Japanese companies' continued interest in New York properties and the strength of the city's market-rate residential developments. Norbil...

Hackensack Meridian, Johns Hopkins target drug-resistant fungal infections with $35M accelerator

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 11/18 11:33P Ethan Geringer-Sameth

Hackensack Meridian Health and Johns Hopkins University are launching a consortium with big pharma to expedite the development of treatments for drug-resistant fungal infections. The group received a grant from the National Institutes of Health...

Former NY Gov. Spitzer pitches luxury Upper East Side tower

CrainsNewYork.com (Hospitality and Tourism) 11/18 11:33P Julianne Cuba

One of New York's disgraced former governors made a rare public appearance Tuesday when he made the case for his new luxury development on the Upper East side. Eliot Spitzer resigned from office in 2008 after getting caught in a prostitution...

Billy Joel sells lower Manhattan pad to his daughter

CrainsNewYork.com (Arts) 11/18 6:35A C. J. Hughes

The Piano Man has unloaded a NoLita home to a familiar face. Pop music icon Billy Joel sold his 1,600-square-foot condo on Elizabeth Street to his daughter Alexa Ray Joel, also a singer-songwriter, for $4.5 million, according to a deed that...

Upper East Side homeless shelter once opposed by Zabar’s heir sells for almost $15M

CrainsNewYork.com (Media & Entertainment) 11/14 7:53A Julianne Cuba

A contentious Upper East Side homeless shelter once fought by the heir to gourmet grocery store Zabar's has sold to new owners for just under $15 million, records show. Manhattan-based real estate firm Apex Investments, through the entity 91st...

Chetrit's felony case for tenant harassment highlights rent-stabilized tensions

CrainsNewYork.com (Arts) 11/12 11:33P Aaron Elstein

In 2000 real estate investor Meyer Chetrit and a partner bought Park West Village, an 850-apartment complex on the Upper West Side. The seller was Leona Helmsley, New York’s “Queen of Mean,” who famously said “Only the little people pay taxes”...

Medical scrubs brand Figs to open first New York store on Upper East Side

CrainsNewYork.com (Arts) 11/11 11:33P Julianne Cuba

The medical apparel brand Figs is slated to open its first brick-and-mortar location in New York on Manhattan's Upper East Side on Saturday.   Founded in California in 2013, Figs started as a digital-only direct-to-consumer brand and opened its...