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The James A. Bailey residence at St. Nicholas Place and 150th Street in Harlem, built in 1888 for the less flamboyant partner of the Barnum & Bailey team, is a three-ring circus of architectural elements: a Romanesque Revival tower, curvilinear Flemish gables, a high chimney adorned with Tudor roses, even a heraldic carving of a
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Q: A month before I sold my Upper Manhattan co-op, I discovered that I would have to pay a flip tax of 2 percent of the sale price at the closing. It’s a significant amount! When my wife and I bought the apartment in 2013, the seller paid $20 per co-op share for the flip
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Q: A month before I sold my Upper Manhattan co-op, I discovered that I would have to pay a flip tax of 2 percent of the sale price at the closing. It’s a significant amount! When my wife and I bought the apartment in 2013, the seller paid $20 per co-op share for the flip
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For most buyers, mortgages are the cornerstone of purchasing a home. Sometimes a second mortgage is necessary, too, to cover the down payment, for instance. But what happens if that second mortgage seems to have been forgiven but actually still exists? Introducing: the “zombie mortgage.” These aren’t creatures from the underworld, but mortgages that homeowners
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Modrany | $1.5 million (34.6 million Czech koruna) A three-bedroom loft with designated children’s areas in a reimagined aircraft parts factory from 1925 This three-bedroom loft-style apartment is on the ninth floor of a 14-story former aircraft parts factory built in 1925. The industrial building, in Prague’s southern Modrany district, has been renovated and transformed
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This is what happens if you stay put, and keep digging holes: An effort that begins innocently enough — planting a garden at home — may grow on you. And it could morph into an arboretum. Hortus Arboretum & Botanical Gardens, a 21-acre expanse in Stone Ridge, N.Y., with about 11 acres under cultivation, got
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Manhattan | 340 East 93rd Street, No. 6C Yorkville Co-op $589,000 A one-bedroom, one-bath, roughly 700-square-foot apartment with a pass-through kitchen, a large bedroom, ample shelving, and PTAC heating and air-conditioning, on the sixth floor of a 30-story doorman building with a live-in super, a residents’ lounge, a hot tub and sauna, a gym, a
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Catskill, N.Y. | $395,000 An 1860 brick rowhouse with two bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, on a 0.05-acre lot This house is a block from Main Street, putting it within easy walking distance of the village’s restaurants, bakeries and art studios. It is a 10-minute walk from the Avalon Lounge, a popular music
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Summer officially starts on Thursday, and this season is predicted to be hotter than normal — a heat wave across the country this week is expected to affect millions of Americans. In New York, the temperature is forecast to reach 96 degrees by Friday. On Monday, Chicago hit a record-breaking 97 degrees. More than just
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This story has been updated to include information about another lawsuit filed on Tuesday. For more than a decade, Oren Alexander was one of the biggest names in ultraluxury real estate in Miami and New York City. He helped to broker the record-setting 2019 purchase of a penthouse at 220 Central Park South, a deal
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