The home of the city's first native-born architect -- the designer of City Hall and Hamilton's Grange -- just sold...in 11 days. / 3 comments
Plus: Harrison Street townhouse for sale; guessing why there were no Tribeca Film Festival Drive-In screenings this year; Poets House's Brooklyn Bridge walk; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council open studios; Yasuo Nomura exhibit.
Courtesy of StreetEasy, these are the properties whose sales were recorded by the city in the past seven days (ending 5/11/13)—including one of the old townhouses on Harrison Street.
Including a view of 84 White; progress at Franklin Place; TOAST gallery (with water tower show); bookstore moving; Organic Modernism; Collect Pond Park; Walker office moving?; Broadway and Duane. Plus: Moving sale; Gina La Fornarina; Brookfield food. / 4 comments
"What's the story behind that cute row of houses on Harrison Street, west of Greenwich? I always wonder as I walk to work." —A. / 2 comments
Plus: Garbage garage ruling; Frites 'N' Meats truck's propane tanks; Harrison Street townhouse price jump; trees cut down; gas leak in BPC; Trump Soho denied plaza seating.
Plus: Native American food truck; Tribeca teacher is an Oscar nominee; Compose interview; Marc Forgione loses; massage-parlor fire; Bouley rumor; Hudson Square tenant; Todd Hase Furniture sale; Harrison loft sale. / 1 comment
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