For sale: the childhood home of president-elect Donald Trump. And since last Wednesday, the owners can expect to get a lot more money for it, as DNAinfo reports. The 5-bedroom brick & stucco Tudor is located in the affluent Jamaica neighborhood in Queens. Trump lived here until he was four years old and recalled many…
Seniors in a Brooklyn assisted living facility are finally receiving their settlement money from a prominent developer, DNAinfo reported. Hayma Deitsch, a real estate developer who is turning Prospect Park Residence, on Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, into luxury apartments, completed the payment of $3.35 million to five elderly women who refused to leave their…
A storied New York Orthodox synagogue, just blocks from the Empire State Building, is looking to its future, but says a report that it may build a gleaming 19-story ‘SynaCondo’ is wrong. The – Congregation Beth Israel was founded by immigrant German Jews in 1890 on Manhattan’s W. 35th Street, around the block from its…
The leading rabbinical school of Conservative Judaism will sell development rights at its historic Upper West Side property, and plans to use the proceeds to build a new library and conference center. The Jewish Theological Seminary of America is contacting bidders to offer two residence halls and air rights to its main campus, a total…
Getting tired of your windowless closet, better known as a New York apartment? Or maybe you’ve decided to give your roommate — or uninvited guests (mice I’m looking at you) — some space and are on the market for a new home. Well, if you have a spare $26 million to drop on a new…
And the record for most expensive co-op ever sold in New York City goes to… Nassef Sawiris. The richest man in Egypt, reportedly worth roughly $7 billion dollars (and ranked as 193rd richest person in the world by Forbes) has purchased 960 Fifth avenue, previously owned by the late billionaire Edgar Bronfman, Sr., who died…
A few years ago, someone who wanted to move to Sderot for “quiet” would have been dismissed as a lunatic. But Carole Arazi is serious. She’s selling her home up in Tel Aviv, and is in the process of looking for one in this Israeli town, located less than a mile from Gaza. Yes, we…
In the two cities I call home, New York and D.C., real estate is the stuff of enduring conversation. Discussing who lives where and in what kind of habitat — condo, co-op, private home or rental apartment — never seems to grow stale. Nearly as compelling a topic, or so it seems to me, is…
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