This morning, real-estate brokerage firm Eastern Consolidated announced that the retail condo at 17 Orchard Street– otherwise known as homebase of The Fat Radish– was sold. The 2,500…
How an Apartment Guru Saved My Tiny Home from the Clutches of Clutter
Some people can work wonders in small quarters. (Remember that beautifully organized, itty-bitty kitchen-shower apartment?) I am not one of those people. I’ve lived in a 350-square-foot Lower…
The Astor Place Cube Returns Next Month
It was a year and a half ago that the Astor cube got boxed up and carted away, and the city hasn’t been the same…
‘Skid Row No More’: These $6.5M Units Are Replacing a Bowery Salvation Army Shelter
While low-income tenants at 83-85 Bowery have been fighting tooth and nail to stay put in their rent-stabilized tenements, just up the street it’s easy…
Facing Pressure From Pols, Dr. Jays Mogul Backtracks on Evicting Bowery Tenants
Landlords are on notice–yesterday Steve Croman was charged with 20 felony counts and using illegal tactics to push tenants out of his buildings. Today Public…
Landlord Steve Croman Charged With Criminal Fraud and Pushing Out Tenants
Just a month ago we followed faith leaders and tenants as they tried to meet their landlord, Steve Croman of 9300 Realty (and honoree on The Village…
Owner of Bowery Bank Building to Pay $7 Million for Art Tax Evasion
Aby J. Rosen, owner of the gloriously graffitied Germania Bank building at 190 Bowery (soon to be outfitted as a high-end office building for fashion agencies…
Los Sures, a Time Capsule of Bygone Williamsburg, Gains Wider Distribution
Couldn’t get enough of Los Sures, the time capsule documentary of life in Puerto Rican Williamsburg back in 1984? You weren’t alone. The film, originally…
Meet Fabrice Grinda, the Minimalist in the $6 Million LES Penthouse
As he rang in 2015, Fabrice Grinda, a 41-year-old tech entrepreneur from France, took stock of his life. He’d been living out of suitcases for…
New Supertall Joining Extell on the Waterfront Draws Resident Ire
The area known as Two Bridges, below the Lower East Side, melting into Chinatown and hemmed in by the waterfront, has long been defined by its…