Location: How’s business? Do uptown interior designers have their own recession? Mr. Drake: I think the interior design industry, like every industry, has been affected—and affected majorly. … Projects that were in the middle, people have not stopped—but we’re all conc...

Once it was mildly annoying, or at least completely boring, to hear that a Fifth Avenue co-op had passed from a recently deceased septuagenarian business tycoon to a slightly younger septuagenarian business tycoon. But now, considering how icy and morose the real estate market is, it's a reason to r...

It’s very easy to resent someone with a multimillion-dollar luxury condo in the once-genuine East Village, especially if after a few years he puts it back on the market for more than three times what he paid. But the photographer Gregory Colbert , with his black-and-gray ponytail waving around as ...

On Feb. 12, after seas of silk-scarved, shiny-shoed, power-suited real estate brokers shuffle into the Pierre’s ballroom, the colossal real estate brokerage Prudential Douglas Elliman will name its broker of the year. Just as it’s been since Dottie Herman and Howard Lorber bought the company in ...

For the past 30 years, a man named A. Justin Sterling has run the Sterling Institute of Relationship, where he teaches men to embrace their inner brutishness. His $500-per-weekend male-bonding seminars culminate, according to an old Post story, with males “frolicking naked, beating drums, leaping ...

In October, as high-end real estate sales in Manhattan slowed to a desperate crawl, an accepted offer at Kitty Carlisle Hart's old penthouse duplex at 1185 Park Avenue made the Upper East Side feel, briefly, good about itself again. After all, the co-op--with 10 rooms, four bedrooms, five bathrooms,...

Nearly a year after getting the lordly honor of listing Brooke Astor's iconic duplex at 778 Park Avenue, Corcoran's Leighton Candler has lost the listing, according to her Web site. Last March, agents from both Brown Harris Stevens and Sotheby's came to audition for the listing with their brokerages...

By January 1996, the billionaire Les Wexner hadn’t spent two months in his 21,000-square-foot stone mansion on East 71st Street, even though he had bought the place seven years earlier, his protégé Jeffrey Epstein told The Times. Never mind that it had been outfitted with a hidden lead-lined bat...

One day our grandchildren will ask what the 2000s New York City high-end real estate bubble looked like, and we will shown them this, thanks to Lev Leviev. [Curbed] The Port Authority says the World Trade Center is coming along just great. Seriously. [GlobeSt] The Z train's not really dead, but toda...

For some reason, when big brokers leave one brokerage for another, it can be a minor event in the little world of high-end Manhattan real estate. (For example, according to the writer Steven Gaines, when Michael Shvo left Prudential Douglas Elliman--because of what was essentially a fight over an an...