You see them up all over the city - scaffolding, sidewalk sheds, and other indicators that facade work is being carried out overhead. But what leads up to the erecting of these structures? What do building inspectors look for when they exam…
Category: Buildings
Last April, The Cooperato r ran a piece about the most expensive home ever sold in New York City: a condo purchased by Dell Computers founder and CEO Michael Dell for $100 million at One57, a Central Park-adjacent skyscraper develope…
In the heart of a re-conceived and reborn urban community on a prime development site in the Court Square section of Long Island City is Corte . An 85-unit condominium building now nearing completion, Corte is poised to bring a unique S…
It’s pretty much impossible these days to walk anywhere in New York City -- Manhattan in particular -- without walking under scaffolding, otherwise known as sidewalk sheds. Made up of steel pipes and heavy-duty plywood, the 'sheds' are set …
When it comes to cracking down on condo owners who illegally rent out their units through short-term home-sharing site Airbnb, the city means business. Citing a Wall Street Journal article, The Real Deal reported Monday tha…
From now on, an Upper West Side condo building will no longer be called 'Trump Place.' The New York Times reported last week that the name was removed from the facade of 200 Riverside Boulevard following a battle involving the cond…
Manhattan's Billionaire's Row is going to get a little bit crowded. Curbed reported this past Monday that developer Extell Development Company announced that it has officially launched sales for the supertall Central Park Tower developm…
Talk about an education in real estate: recent condo developments on the Upper East and Upper West sides have coincidentally both involved the displacements of two schools at their respective construction sites. At East 85 th Street and…
Housing Development Fund Corporation (HDFC) cooperatives were set up some 40 years ago as a means of establishing home ownership opportunities for low-income residents in New York City. The program also served to help the city stabilize nei…
Last April, The Cooperator published an update on the conversion-to-condo project currently underway at Manhattan's famed Waldorf Astoria hotel. The precarious financial situation of Anbang Insurance Group , the Chinese company tha…