Battery Park City, hailed as Manhattan’s most suburban neighborhood, is seeing a wealth of change. New developments and condo conversions are peppering the planned, leafy neighborhood, separated from the rest of the city by the busy West Side Highway. The eco-friendly Visionaire and Riverhouse projects will join Rector Square and 333 Rector Street. Goldman Sachs [...]

Brookfield Properties’ earnings, hurt by a decline in home sales, fell in the second quarter by 43 percent, the company said today.
Profits declined to $45 million as of June 30, compared to $79 million in the same period last year. Revenues, however, rose 1.8 percent to $719 million, the company said in a statement.
Net operating [...]

Natalie Portman has listed her glassy West Village apartment at 165 Charles Street with an asking price of $6.55 million. She bought the unit in 2005 for $5.7 million. Dubbed as celebrity dorms, Richard Meier’s three glassy towers in the West Village have had a high turnover of big names. At 173 Perry Street, Paul [...]

If it seems like there’s a Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts on every block in New York City, that’s because there almost is. There are 186 Starbucks stores in Manhattan, making it the borough’s biggest chain, according to The Center for an Urban Future, which released a study called “Attack of the chains” that tallies all [...]

A 25-room mansion in Lenox Hill owned by developer Sherman Cohen that had been on the market for almost two decades has finally sold for $31.79 million.
The buyer, who was not identified, closed on the sale at 601-603 Park Avenue on July 23, according to city records published today.
The listing price on Streeteasy.com was $35 [...]

Since they started more than a year ago, sales at Belltel Lofts, the conversion of the former Verizon building in Downtown Brooklyn, have been, in a word, slow. Back in February, Prudential Douglas Elliman’s Terry Naini, who also owns a unit at Belltel, was hired to increase traffic at the building. And she did. Not [...]

The median home closing price for Long Island and Queens was $418,800 in June, up from May’s four-year record low of $399,000. The median price is still 9 percent below where it was in June 2007. Nassau and Suffolk counties’ median price for June was higher than May, but Queens decreased by $1,000. 
June’s median home-closing [...]

Part of Brooklyn Bridge Park will open by the end of 2009, including lawns of Pier 1, some entrances and a playground, but the rest is still a question mark. The 1.3-mile strip from Pier 1 to Pier 6 will cost more than $300 million, double the original cost, but so far there is only [...]

New York Congressman Charles Rangel held a press conference to justify his four rent-stabilized units at single Harlem building. Rangel said two of the three apartments he uses as a residence were already combined when he moved in, and when the adjacent studio apartment became available, he made it a home office. He added that [...]

The Daily News was allowed to take a peak at the Sloane Mansion, at 18 East 68th Street, which is listed at $64 million, one of the highest asking prices ever for a Manhattan home. The elaborate mansion was built in 1901 by Henry Sloane, and occupies 19,350 square feet with 30 rooms, 17 baths, [...]