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The Nondescript Condo Building Where Jeffrey Epstein Kept His Victims

 Along with prime ministers, professors, and the moms of powerful friends in town to see the Frozen musical. By Kim Velsey
  1. This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings I went to Chelsea. (I laughed. I cried.)
    By Nora DeLigter
  2. A Modernist House in Weston With a ‘Puppy Spa’ And a charming, remarkably affordable lake house in Canaan.
    By Clio Chang
  3. An East Village One-Bedroom With Great Light and a Spa Bathroom for $620,000 And a two-bed in Bed-Stuy with a balcony and extra half-bath.
    By Katie McDonough
  4. ‘The Most Amenitized Building Brooklyn Has Seen’ The new owner of the Bossert Hotel promises a pool, a Pilates studio, and a private dining room, among other perks.
    By Kim Velsey
  5. I Want to Buy a Brownstone With My Best Friend And have no idea where to start. Please tell me everything.
    By Clio Chang
  6. A New Buyer for the Chrysler Building? Tishman Speyer, which previously owned the building’s ground lease, is reportedly in talks to buy the skyscraper back.
    By Kim Velsey
  7. A Two-Bedroom in Hudson Heights With Lovely Leaded Windows for $650,000 And a roomy one-bedroom at the Osborne with pocket doors and views of Carnegie Hall.
    By Katie McDonough
  8. Will Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Make Everyone Else’s Go Up? Surprisingly, housing experts for and against the mayor’s proposal agree on one thing.
    By Clio Chang
  9. The Biggest New Store Opening of the Past Year Is … TJ Maxx The brand’s new Herald Square location will take over the Gap space that’s been vacant since 2020.
    By Kim Velsey
  10. The New Downtown ‘It’ Building Is 80 Clarkson the must-have address for the ultrawealthy? Or is it just clever marketing?
    By Kim Velsey
  11. A Grand One-Bedroom on Prospect Park West for $799,000 And an Upper West Side one-bedroom with a terrace.
    By Katie McDonough
  12. When Your Friend Becomes Your Landlord For most, the fantasy of group dinners and communelike living quickly devolves.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  13. Shane Hollander’s Architect Speaks On building the cottage, viral fame, and how Shane and Ilya’s all-glass retreat really is quite private.
    By Clio Chang
  14. A Charles Gwathmey With Waterfall Views in Kent And a Kingston Queen Anne with original details intact.
    By Clio Chang
  15. A Prospect Heights Two-Bedroom With a Nicely Updated Kitchen for $825,000 And a wall of windows on West 90th Street.
    By Katie McDonough
  16. The Foreclosure Sale Everyone’s Watching Why Zohran Mamdani, Tish James, landlords, and tenants across the city are hyperfocused on the Pinnacle sale.
    By Clio Chang
  17. The First Alexander Brothers Accuser Has Died The recent death of 45-year-old Kate Whiteman is under investigation.
    By Bridget Read
  18. The Carl Icahn Connection to a New ICE Detention Center Opening Upstate An LLC connected to the former Trump adviser owns the warehouse being converted to hold up to 1,500 detainees.
    By Clio Chang
  19. Compass Just Became the World’s Largest Brokerage. Now What? Don’t expect lower fees or broker commissions.
    By Kim Velsey
  20. The Queen Anne With a Porte Cochere on Park Place In a neighborhood of stately prewar apartments and landmarked brownstones, No. 1094 stands out.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  21. A Clinton Hill One-Bedroom in a Former Seminary for $895,000 And a properly huge one-bedroom on West End Avenue.
    By Katie McDonough
  22. The Bay Ridge Condo Scammer Has to Pay Up Developer Steven Wu was ordered to return more than $4 million to the 20 Chinese immigrant families he conned.
    By Clio Chang
  23. Fort Greene’s Butter-Yellow Country House Is Slated for Demolition The 1860 mansion will be replaced by a five-story apartment building, according to permits filed.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  24. My Neighbor Has a Hoarding Problem and I’m Freaking Out About Mice I don’t want to see them evicted, but is there anything I can do?
    By Clio Chang
  25. How Mamdani Gets His Rent Freeze He’s got the numbers. What now?
    By Clio Chang
  26. The Mansion on West 80th Where Mary-Louise Parker Rented For decades, the owners of 323 West 80th Street took in wayward actors, aspiring musicians, and a rotating cast of models.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  27. What Construction Workers Found Gutting the Flatiron Building A feature no one knew about could come back to life when the building re-opens as a condo.
    By Kim Velsey
  28. A Corner One-Bedroom in a Former School for $899,000 Plus a Murray Hill one-bedroom near Bryant Park with more than one bathroom and plenty of built-ins.
    By Clio Chang
  29. The Artists Who Bought a Park Slope Tenement for $100,000 And turned the dark railroads into Soho-style lofts with a gallery downstairs.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  30. ‘Concrete Hand Grenades,’ Ghost Floors, and More Supertall Drama The year in skyscrapers.
    By Kim Velsey
  31. 2026 Will Continue the Good Streak for Luxury Buyers Those who need mortgages might find it tough, though.
    By Kim Velsey
  32. Curbed’s 10 Most-Read Listing Stories of 2025 Including a 27-room Park Avenue maisonette, a Hamptons modern by an I.M. Pei architect, and the Upper East Side Bubble House.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  33. A Two-Bedroom, 2.5-Bath Duplex in Murray Hill for $900,000 And a classic prewar right across from the Brooklyn Museum.
    By Katie McDonough
  34. The Music Hall of Williamsburg Is Losing Its Lease One of the last aughts-era holdouts on North 6th will close at the end of 2026.
    By Clio Chang
  35. The Celebrity Real Estate That Languished, Sold, and Foretold a Divorce in 2025 Amy Schumer and Lily Allen sold, Sabrina Carpenter bought, and Ben and Jen lingered.
    By Clio Chang
  36. The New, Weird Luxury Studio How the big-kitchen, big-bathroom, big-window trend took over the rental market
    By Kim Velsey
  37. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos Have a Backyard Spaceship Now It is possibly a sauna.
    By Clio Chang
  38. A Windsor Terrace One-Bedroom With Giant Windows for $699,000 And an intriguing studio just steps from Central Park.
    By Katie McDonough
  39. Round Swamp Farm Helped Kill a Hamptons Affordable Housing Project A 79-unit workforce housing project was canceled after a petition started by the owner of the boutique farmstand gathered nearly 3,000 signatures
    By Kim Velsey
  40. The End of a 3-Story Experiment in Design and Retail The owners of R & Company are selling their White Street triplex in Tribeca.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  41. My Landlord Is 94. Can I Ask Her for a Lease That Will Outlive Her? I’m not trying to be morbid, but I really want to stay in my apartment.
    By Clio Chang
  42. A Stylish Compound on 149 Acres in Coxsackie And a peaceful retreat John Storyk built after finishing Electric Lady Studios for Jimi Hendrix.
    By Clio Chang
  43. A Chelsea One-Bedroom With Pool-and-Sauna Privileges for $950,000 Plus a large two-bedroom on East 12th Street with excellent light.
    By Katie McDonough
  44. Charlie Parker’s Townhouse Is for Sale The home, with a remnant of the birdcage wallpaper the jazz musician put up, is asking $7.2 million.
    By Kim Velsey
  45. Alec Baldwin Is Once Again Trying to Sell His Hamptons House After saying he’d never leave his sprawling seven-bedroom in Amagansett, he and Hilaria just put it back on the market for $21 million.
    By Clio Chang
  46. An LLC Tied to Leon Black Has Bought the Woolworth Mansion It paid $38 million, far less than the initial $90 million asking price.
    By Kim Velsey
  47. The Luckiest Boy on Greene Street How a commercial-real-estate heir stumbled into Loft Law–protected status and a possible $4 million windfall.
    By Clio Chang
  48. When the Decor Scares Away Homebuyers Brokers on the clients who insist on keeping their magenta walls and creepy paintings.
    By Kim Velsey
  49. The Grand Central Oyster Bar Brownstone An architect who would become renowned for his dramatic archways tested some of his early flourishes on West 78th Street.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  50. The Serial Dine-and-Dasher Owes Eliot Spitzer $40,000 in Back Rent Would-be influencer Pei Chung, held at Rikers for leaving at least ten restaurants without paying the bill, is also being evicted.
    By Kim Velsey
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