For sale at 44 Laight: a 4,000-square-foot three-bed, 2.5-bath loft with a steel catwalk and tons of exposed stuff: bricks, ducts, cast-iron columns, wood beams, pipes, you name it. / 2 comments
Plus: Famous photographer sues upstairs neighbors over flood; Battery Park City resident complains about aggressive canvassing; sunglasses thief.
Who bought where, from whom—and for how much. (Includes a penthouse bought by a media honcho.)
Plus: European Wax Center confirmed; 44 Laight analysis; Tribeca girl protests SeaWorld at the Thanksgiving parade.
Who bought where, from whom—and for how much. Including: A fitness guru buys big and a liquor store looks like its future is hazy.
Plus: Au Mandarin to close; Maserati and Iran; Brooklyn Battery Tunnel renamed; World Financial Center rents. / 1 comment
Plus: The Woolworth Building's "no tourists" sign; the original Zuccotti Park protest; OBAO now open in FiDi; swapping lofts; a $7.50 cookie; film director Andrew Niccol; outdoor furniture indoors.
Hallelujah! Plus: Bringing stalled construction sites to life; dissecting a flip at 44 Laight. / 3 comments
Six sales were reported in the past week, from $770,000 to $5.7 million.
Seven sales—five for over $3 million—were reported in the past week. / 2 comments
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