The National Association of Realtors is out with its "hotness" index, analyzing buyer demand with housing supply indicators -- and this New York area tops it. ... Read full Story
Rents across the U.S. may have been falling for nearly two years, but five large coastal metros stood out last month as having the nation's least affordable rental markets—including one of Florida's hottest tourist destinations. ... Read full Story
YIMBY captured photos of 270 Park Avenue's exterior LED strips undergoing testing, offering a preview of how JPMorgan Chase’s 1,389-foot-tall Midtown East headquarters will eventually look illuminated at night. Designed by Norman Foster of Foster + Partners and developed by Tishman Speyer, the 60-story supertall skyscraper will yield 2.5 million square feet of office space with a capacity of 15,000 employees, and will become the tallest structure in New York completely powered by hydroelectric energy. Adamson Associates is the architect of record for the project, which occupies a full city block bounded by East 48th Street to the north, East 47th Street to the south, Park Avenue to the east, and Madison Avenue to the west. ... Read full Story
By New York YIMBY | Max Gillespie | 5/14/2025 7:31 AM
Weill Cornell Medicine has officially opened its new $260 million student residence hall, named the Feil Family and Weill Family Residence Hall, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The 16-story building, located at the northwest corner of East 74th Street and York Avenue, will house 272 students and includes 163 studio apartments, seven one-bedrooms, and 51 two-bedroom units, all with full kitchens. ... Read full Story
The affordable housing lottery has launched for The Hart, a nine-story residential building at 1038 Broadway in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Designed by Marvel Architects and developed by CAMBA Housing Ventures, the structure yields 95 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 18 units for residents at 60 to 90 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $57,498 to $131,220. ... Read full Story
Permits have been filed for a 12-story mixed-use building at 215 West 76th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Located between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway, the lot is two block south of the 79th Street subway station, served by the 1 train. Aleksandr Finkelshteyn of 2160 Broadway, LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
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The hollowed-out, cast-concrete marvel at the corner of Third Street and Third Avenue in Brooklyn is iconic to the Gowanus neighborhood. ... Read full Story
The building's developers are calling it a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity for tenants seeking rarefied air and even rarer space. ... Read full Story
Home prices climbed in nearly every one of America's top-dollar housing markets — but 10 cities stood out for having the nation's highest median sales prices. ... Read full Story
The unusual and wonderful Prospect Park South mansion once called a “Colonial Revival on steroids” returned to the market on Monday with a major facelift. ... Read full Story
Façade installation has reached the crown of THE 74, a 32-story residential tower at 201 East 74th Street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Pelli Clarke & Partners and developed by Elad Group, which purchased the property for $61 million in April 2022, the 420-foot-tall structure will yield 41 condominium units and a collection of amenities. SLCE Architects is the architect of record for the property, which is alternately addressed as 1299 Third Avenue and located on an interior lot facing Third Avenue with two small panhandle extensions to East 74th and 75th Streets.
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Work is complete on 272 Greene Avenue, a four-story single-family residential building on the eastern edge of Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Designed by Switzerland-based Inès Lamunière in collaboration with Matthias Müller’s Brooklyn-based MuNYC Architecture, the structure spans 2,700 square feet and includes a rooftop terrace and an off-street parking space. The building stands on a 1,313-square-foot property at the corner of Greene and Classon Avenues.
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By New York YIMBY | Max Gillespie | 5/13/2025 7:01 AM
Haussmann Development has closed on the $7.5 million purchase of a 10,166-square-foot plot for the development of a new residential building at 16-20 Convent Avenue in West Harlem, Manhattan. Designed by architect Nickolas Kazalas, the ten-story structure will yield 75 apartments with 15 reserved for residents earning 60 percent of the area median income (AMI). ... Read full Story
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 24, 2025 is:
limn \LIM\ verb
Limn is a formal verb most often used especially in literary contexts to mean "to describe or portray," as in "a novel that limns the life of 1930s coastal Louisiana." It can also mean "to outline in clear sharp detail," as in "a tree limned by moonlight," and "to draw or paint on a surface," as in "limning a portrait."
// The documentary limns the community's decades-long transformation.
// We admired every detail of the portrait, gracefully limned by the artist's brush.
"... the story of Ronald Reagan's jelly beans is not simply about his love of a cute candy. It speaks to how he weaned himself from tobacco, judged people's character, and deflected scrutiny. It limns the role of the sugar industry and food marketing. And it demonstrates how food can be a powerful communications tool. Reagan's jelly beans sent a message to voters: 'I like the same food you do, so vote for me.'" — Alex Prud’homme, Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House, 2023
Did you know?
Limn is a word with lustrous origins, tracing ultimately to the Latin verb illuminare, meaning "to illuminate." Its use in English dates back to the Middle Ages, when it was used for the action of illuminating (that is, decorating) medieval manuscripts with gold, silver, or brilliant colors. William Shakespeare extended the term to painting in his poem "Venus and Adonis": "Look when a painter would surpass the life / In limning out a well-proportioned steed …" Over time, limn gained a sense synonymous with delineate meaning "to outline in clear sharp detail" before broadening further to mean "to describe or portray." Such limning is often accomplished by words, but not always: actors are often said to limn their characters through their portrayals, while musicians (or their instruments) may limn emotions with the sounds they make.