Plus: Big sale at Scott Jordan Furniture in advance of its move; news from the World Trade Center mall; part of the Spring Street Salt Shed is not wearing well; "customer-service atrium" at the Department of Buildings; Milo Hess in a Seaport art show. / 20 comments
Taylor Swift has applied for a curb cut outside of 153 Franklin, the townhouse adjacent to the building where she owns the penthouse and a second-floor unit. / 2 comments
Someone has dramatically overpaid for #2N at 155 Franklin—and the evidence points, if lightly, toward Swift. (Update: Now the New York Post says "sources confirmed" it was her.) / 8 comments
Plus: Helmut Newton show in the dazzling lobby of 49 Chambers; loungewear pop-up in a 30 Park Place apartment; the history of a Pine Street building. / 18 comments
The three-story building at 153 Franklin sold in an off-market deal to a lawyer linked to the singer. / 2 comments
Courtesy of StreetEasy, these are the properties whose sales were "recorded" by the city in the past seven days (ending 11/03/12)—the sales may have taken place earlier.
Plus: Sushi of Gari Tribeca; Espasso branches out; Cuomo aide.
Plus: White-powder sender could be an eccentric; Meg Ryan keeps a-lookin'; Spruce Street School parents; kindergarten waitlists; WFC cottages; city buildings; Atera wine director bails.
Plus: Battery Park carousel and playground update; setback on Lispenard; Dominique Strauss-Kahn townhouse price reduced; Trump Soho auction; Condé Nast takes more of 1WTC.
Plus: School rezoning complaints; zombie-free Lower Manhattan; the Dominique Strauss-Kahn house drops its price; theater review; Thom Browne; 137 Duane sale.
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