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What Really Brings People Back to the Office? The Easiest Commute.

 Forget the rock-climbing wall. People just want an easy commute. By Kim Velsey
  1. The Ultimate Start-up Office Is for Sale Kickstarter’s 29,000-square-foot Greenpoint space is a fossil of how we once worked.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  2. No Water? No Subdivision. The end of Arizona’s desert sprawl may be near. It’s a good first step.
    By Alissa Walker
  3. The Trouble With 23 Cornelia Street Some brokers are skeptical that Taylor Swift’s onetime rental can fetch its $18 million asking price.
    By Kim Velsey
  4. Why Are There So Many Bathrooms in the Houses on Selling Sunset? Brokers explain the deranged bed-to-bath ratio of ultra-high-end listings.
    By Kim Velsey
  5. Pickleball Is Taking Over Empty Bed Bath & Beyonds The sport’s rising empire is replacing defunct retail space in malls across the country.
    By Clio Chang
  6. JPMorgan Chase Bets Big on the Revival of Midtown If you build it, 270 Park says, they will commute.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  7. A Sale and a Suicide on East 12th Street After a private-equity firm bought an East Village apartment complex, one of the tenants jumped. Neighbors say he was right to be paranoid.
    By Bridget Read
  8. Owner of Flatiron Building Buys Flatiron Building Jeffrey Gural got it on the second try and saved a bunch of money in the process.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  9. One of the Last Gilded Age Mansions on Fifth Avenue Is for Sale A Wall Street divorce brings it back on the market at $72.5 million.
    By Kim Velsey
  10. How to Turn a Church Full of Cats and Raccoons Into a Coveted Wedding Venue “It was a very non–New York City wildlife smell.”
    By Clio Chang
  11. Century 21 Is Back After three long years, the luxury-bargain flagship reopened. The faithful turned out.
    By Clio Chang
  12. MrBeast Is Building a Hype Neighborhood The viral stunt philanthropist is buying up a cul-de-sac in his hometown for friends and family.
    By Clio Chang
  13. Miranda Priestly’s House Is for Sale Upper East Side, seven bedrooms and a private basketball court, $27.5 million. That’s all.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  14. The Market for Disney Adults With Millions to Spend “I recently showed a house with 20 hidden Mickeys that came with a spreadsheet of where to find them.”
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  15. Chaos and Betrayal on Day One of Bed Bath & Beyond’s Closeout Sale “They tricked everyone.” At the Chelsea megastore, customers raged at the lack of deals.
    By Clio Chang
  16. A Rare Corner Loft in SoHo A divorce turned an art studio into a full-time apartment with an uptown feel.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  17. One of the Last Private Townhouses on Washington Square Park A Greek Revival on “the Row” where Edith Wharton once lived.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  18. Long Island NIMBYs May Be Winning Housing Fight Lawmakers fighting for the “right to a suburban quality of life” could weaken Hochul’s density plan.
    By Clio Chang
  19. Is $63 Million Too Much for Logan Roy’s House? Marcia and Connor make one of the quickest deals in history.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  20. Manhattan Is Awash in Empty Therapist Offices Post-pandemic, Realtors are finding them next to impossible to fill.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  21. Everything We Know About 270 Park Avenue The JPMorgan Chase supertall is scheduled to open in 2025.
    By Diana Budds
  22. Your Chance to Combine Two Gilded Age Apartments An upstairs duplex has never been on the market; the downstairs suite had the same owner for 35 years. They both listed this week.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  23. A Tribeca Penthouse Where a Man Was Once Allegedly Stuffed in the Floor The apartment is being sold through bankruptcy procedure, and the board is “beyond excited that a new owner is coming in.”
    By Adriane Quinlan
  24. Compass Gets Upstate Curious The mega-brokerage poached the team behind every black house on the market in Catskill.
    By Clio Chang
  25. Brad Pitt Traded Mansions With Aileen Getty The actor’s $33 million Hollywood Hills estate was too big, the oil heiress’s too small.
    By Clio Chang
  26. Paul Schrader’s Very Paul Schrader Days in Assisted Living The screenwriter recently moved into the Coterie to stay close to his wife. He’s never been busier.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  27. Yet Another Chance to Buy the Flatiron Building The 2nd-place bidders did not want it after all.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  28. The Girl Scouts Open Their Own Version of The Wing The vibe is more slime-making and Minecraft than girlboss.
    By Clio Chang
  29. Good-Cause Eviction Keeps Dying in Court Cities across New York tried to put a bandage on their housing crises. Then came the lawsuits.
    By Clio Chang
  30. The Flatiron Sale Was a Flop A mystery buyer backed out, and the second-place bidder doesn’t want to pay.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  31. A Greenhouse in the Sky Above West End Avenue The apartment also has an outdoor shower and a 1,400-square-foot terrace.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  32. Your Landlord Might Be a Baby Parents are buying investment properties for their infants.
    By Molly Osberg
  33. ‘The Floor Just Dropped and Then Started Bouncing’ Talking to someone inside One Vanderbilt when the 93-story midtown tower began to shake.
    By Clio Chang
  34. Who Wants to Buy the Flatiron Building? It goes up for auction today. Here’s what you could get for a couple hundred million.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  35. Deals, Deals, Deals on Los Angeles Megamansions! Brokers are trying all kinds of gimmicks to beat an April 1 transfer tax on homes above $5 million.
    By Alissa Walker
  36. BjornQorn Opened a Skate Rink The space will also be a production facility for its nutritional-yeast-dusted offerings.
    By Clio Chang
  37. Darien, Connecticut, Bought an Island The town may build pickleball courts.
    By Clio Chang
  38. Everything We Know About the Tiny Sliver of Australia in the Oscars Gift Bags It is supposed to be a symbol of land conservation. Also there are 30-day refunds.
    By Clio Chang
  39. Christian-College Students Got Eviction Notices at Their Luxury Dorms King’s College is reassuring students that tenant protection laws will keep them housed.
    By Clio Chang
  40. ‘Like College or Camp for Rich People’ The lifestyle managers hosting mezcal classes and meditation hour at the city’s amenity-packed bubble buildings.
    By Bridget Read
  41. Dumbo Is Displeased With Its Giant New Building “Olympia looks like a cruise ship. Meanwhile it’s literally positioned next to one of the greatest landmarks in all of the United States.”
    By Adriane Quinlan
  42. A24 Buys Cherry Lane Theatre Another studio rescues an endangered venue.
    By Clio Chang
  43. The Wing’s Office (and Furniture) Is for Sale The East Village landmark was listed for $22.5 million.
    By Clio Chang
  44. Vigorous Smudging Almost Burned Down Bernie Madoff’s Penthouse At least according to former owner and Pokémon magnate Al Kahn.
    By Clio Chang
  45. A Duplex Opens Up in a Coveted Artist’s Studio Building It has a Juliet balcony and a library with a rolling staircase.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  46. Meghan and Harry Have Been Evicted And Frogmore Cottage has reportedly been handed over to Prince Andrew.
    By Clio Chang
  47. Is Anyone Tipping Their Landlord? Probably not. And yet people keep asking!
    By Clio Chang
  48. Los Angeles’s Conflicted Hype-House King Developer Danny Fitzgerald would like it if celebrities would stop partying in his celebrity party houses.
    By Molly Osberg
  49. Rupert Murdoch Is Returning to Hampshire House Three decades and two wives later.
    By Clio Chang
  50. A Trailer in the Hamptons Sells for $3.75 Million Neighbors include a hedge-fund billionaire and the co-founder of Vitaminwater.
    By Clio Chang
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