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No-Fee Apartment of the Week: $4,920 two-bedroom in Clinton

Lucy Cohen Blatter — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:18:00 +0000

This over 1,000-square-foot two-bedroom at 560 West 43rd Street has generously sized rooms. The listing even says it's convertible into a three-bedroom.

This over 1,000-square-foot two-bedroom at 560 West 43rd Street is ideal for theater nuts.

South Harlem to Midtown East: Moving for a great elementary school

Jessica as told to Marjorie Cohen — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:58:35 +0000

Why would I want to move from a reasonably priced two-bedroom apartment in South Harlem, upstairs from my best friend and her family, overlooking Morningside Park and across the street from a recently built playground?

There was only one reason and it was a powerful one: the opportunity to live across the street from PS 59, one of the best elementary schools in NYC (recently relocated to a state of the art building on 57th between Second and Third Avenues), where my daughter will go to kindergarten.

StreetEasy’s Most Wanted: Flying solo

Sara Alessi — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:57:00 +0000

This $875,000 one-bedroom, one-bathroom prewar co-op on West 11th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue sports 15-foot ceilings, a wood-burning fireplace, renovated kitchen and bathroom and a washer/dryer.

Striking out on your own? You might want to check out the four one-bedrooms that made this week's edition of StreetEasy’s Most Wanted--the 10 sales listings StreetEasy users saved more often than any others this week.

Let's start with a one-bedroom, one-bathroom co-op (pictured) on West 11th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues listed at $875,000. Prewar details include exposed beams, exposed brick, a wood-burning fireplace, hardwood floors and 15’ ceilings. An in-unit washer/dryer rounds out the perks of this space.

Real Estate Want: A master bath grand enough for Lady Grantham

Julie Inzanti — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:53:56 +0000

On a cool spring night you can watch a roaring fire while you soak in this stand-alone tub in your Hamilton Heights townhouse.

This $2.99 million Hamilton Heights limestone townhouse was build in 1897 and has all of the old-world charm you'd expect from the Gilded Age…

There are 8 grand fireplaces, a grand parlor and plenty of other grand rooms with soaring ceilings and original woodwork.

But there is one room in particular that will make you feel like aristocracy. The master bathroom! (Yes, there is what appears to be a working fireplace in there, too.)

A landlord speaks -- about what's behind that incomprehensible lease

Craig Roche — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:27:34 +0000

Lessons from a Small Landlord is a new bi-weekly column penned by a real-life NYC landlord whose pseudonym is Craig Roche.

In an ideal world without lawyers, apartment leases would be very short: “Tenant promises to pay $X per month for the use of the apartment, and landlord and tenant promise to behave reasonably.”

Plenty of tenants rent apartments or shares this way, but usually they know each other first. In the real world, for everyone else, lawyers write 10 pages attempting to codify what "reasonable" means.

The mid-lease rent hike, the most important accessory for your million dollar apartment, and more

Sara Alessi — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:56:00 +0000

StuyTown renters get mid-lease rent hikes up to $1,100/month (NY Daily News)
This is why the most important thing to buy when you move into a million-dollar apartment is blinds (NY Post)
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Your Celebrity Neighbor: Tory Burch

Sharon Krum — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:39:45 +0000

WHO: Starting at her kitchen table, Tory Burch built a fashion company now worth $3 billion. Who says women can’t kick ass in business?

WHERE: The CEO and designer of the "Tory Burch” brand lives in an apartment inside the Pierre Hotel at Fifth Avenue and East 61st Street. We're guessing that the annual tab for that is, oh, a touch higher than the median Upper East Side rental price of $2,800, as calculated by StreetEasy.

Uprise Art: Making art collection more affordable and accessible for New Yorkers

Leah Hochbaum Rosner — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:23:45 +0000

Summer Girls 1 by Leif Huron, a New York-based photographer, is one of a few hundred original artworks currently available for purchase ($1,250, or $50/month) on Uprise Art.

Shortly after graduating from Columbia University in 2006, Tze Chun noticed a strange phenomenon among her friends: Even the ones pulling in six-figure salaries had nothing on their walls but ripped movie posters, if anything.

"I Love Franklin Avenue": A blogger's-eye-view of the Cobble Hill/Williamsburgzation of Crown Heights

Julie Inzanti — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:10:16 +0000

Nick Juravich moved to Crown Heights in 2008 to work as Brooklyn Coordinator for the New York Road Runners' Mighty Milers Program, a youth health and fitness program. That job had him walking, running, biking, and riding subways all over Brooklyn, and he started a blog--I Love Franklin Avenue--as an effort to make sense of his new home.

Room for Improvement: A kitchen that makes sense, cheaper parking for residents and more

Mayra David — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:57:00 +0000

Expensive parking, overheated bedrooms, and kitchens that don’t make sense for the act of cooking. Five New Yorkers share their apartment-life wants: