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If you’re looking to live in a doorman building, the Upper East Side is the place to start your search. There are more doorman buildings on the Upper East Side than any other neighborhood. Interestingly, since many of the doorman buildings are of 1950s to 1980 “white brick” vintage, they are among the least expensive doorman buildings around!  To keep…

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Some people drop into Pier 9 for a couple of candles. Not Alex. He’s now painting the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling murals in his apartment, starting with the Creation of Adam over his bedroom.

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Lovely and recently renovated studio on tree lined block between Third Avenue and Second Avenue in the East 80s.

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Shareable apartments are getting tight. Shareable apartments in the better parts of the Upper East Side at an affordable price are even tighter.

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An Oasis on the Upper East Side. 2 BRs, wbfpl, wash/dry.Find out more about this unique No Fee apartment for rent on the Upper East Side, visit www.RDNY.com. Apartment ID: 314146

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A judge ruled last week that an Upper East Side renter could break her lease because her landlord failed to deal with her complaints about second-hand smoke.

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How\’d you like to pay just over a thousand bucks a month for a place on the Upper East Side—for your car? Yep, the four-figure parking spot has arrived, as of last week

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Newly listed on 8/8/10. This one\’s a bargain. Air conditioned, washer/dryer in the apartment, and a private back yard. One short block from Carl Shurz Park and Gracie Mansion.

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November 24th, 2009 Matt DiChiara   Christina Ambers, the famous hand and foot model, alleges that she and her husband (who was formerly employed as a doorman at the building where Ms. Ambers lives and now resides with her at that address) have been the victims of a hostile ostracization by the building’s workers and tenants. Attorney Joshua Price has…

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This is from The Sun on Aug 7, 2008: First Time Renters are leaving Uptown in Droves by Candaces Taylor I’ve extracted the best parts for you but you can read the full story by clicking here. And of course, RDNY.com has listings for all the buildings mentioned in the article. Move over, Normandie Court. The new go-to building for…

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Mark (the fellow who still hasn’t explained to me what Mount Vernon is doing in the Upper East Side) sent me a link to another old house in Manhattan: The Dyckman Farm House in Inwood. Here’s what the house looks like on their website: Wow. It looks like it’s on a cliff, looming high above Inwood. I wondered how the…

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I haven’t been inspired lately to add to this blog. Things have been quiet on the rental front, until I saw this eye-catching graph in the New York Observer: And here’s more not so good news from the article by Tom Acitelli: It’s on again: the spring hunt for Manhattan apartments, and, according to the numbers, this season should be…

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Sarah Jessica Parker, of Sex and the City, is on the cover of New York magazine this week. (Great photo by Andrew Eccles.) It’s an interesting article, and Ms. Parker points out the same thing that I thought was the least believable part of the series: those women had entirely too much time to hang with each other. I don’t…

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These numbers are from a bloomberg.com report by Sharon L. Lynch that also had info about sales. I’ve extracted only the rental data: Manhattan apartment rents climbed 5.5% in 2007 to an average of $3,310 a month for all sizes of apartments south of 96th Street. Vacancy rates remained around 1% for the third consecutive year. New properties with doorman…

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The Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers are eternal New Yorkers. They all were born over 100 years ago but their legacies resonate into the 21st Century. The Three Stooges were mainly the Howard brothers (born Horwitz), Lithuanian Jews who grew up in Brownsville, Brooklyn at the turn of the 1900s. Brownsville had a well deserved reputation as a vicious…

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