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Greenpoint Got a Little Beach
7+ hour, 49+ min ago (28+ words) The sandy patch of Bushwick Inlet Park is only a portion of what was promised, but it's full of bird-watchers and sunbathers since opening this month....
The Hamptons Home Where Olivier Sarkozy Lived With Mary-Kate Olsen Is for Sale
1+ week, 5+ day ago (169+ words) Pre-divorce, Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy rode out the early pandemic in an ivy-covered, Bridgehampton mansion. Now you can see inside. The Bridgehampton compound that Olivier Sarkozy and Mary-Kate Olsen holed up in during the pandemic is for sale for…...
There's a Lot of Blue-Chip Slop for Sale at Frieze
1+ week, 6+ day ago (142+ words) A small-c conservative Frieze New York reflects a spooked art market still feeling its way out of the wilderness. Frieze, the biggest of the four art fairs opening this week alongside TEFAF, Independent, and NADA, is a balancing act: "Blue-chip…...
The Independent Art Fair's Massive New Home on the Lower East Side
1+ week, 6+ day ago (74+ words) For the first time, the Independent Art Fair moves to the Lower East Side's Pier 36, where designs by SO-IL and Diogo Passarinho create drama at the entrance and throughout the exhibition. In the early 1980s, a group of artists took over…...
Marble Dominated Milan Design Week
4+ week, 1+ hour ago (396+ words) Villa Pestarini's "rationalist" light-as-air, open-plan architecture features a mix of marble and wood floors and a sherbet-colored glass partition that closes off the living room from the entrance foyer. Here, the installation "Albini in Present Tense," curated by Patricia Urquiola…...
The Gate Guy Preparing for a Very Busy Season
4+ week, 20+ hour ago (201+ words) I like the motto on your website " "Have a GATE day! I'm working on "Have a GATE weekend! but I've gotta trademark "Have a GATE day! How many orders for new gates have you gotten so far? Last week I…...
The House Museum in Washington Heights
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (215+ words) A visual diary by Design Editor Wendy Goodman. The artist George Nelson Preston sometimes can't believe the characters he has crossed paths with in nearly nine decades of living in New York. Growing up in Sugar Hill in the 1940s, his…...
Where Have All the Normal Windows Gone?
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (102+ words) Single or double-hung windows were once the norm. But now new builds often come with casement or tilt-and-turn windows that don't come with screens. People across New York City are suffering quietly. "They're more beautiful, expansive, and visually arresting than…...
An Enormous Labubu Store Is Coming to Fifth Avenue
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (109+ words) Pop Mart, the company behind Labubu, appears to have signed a lease for a 7, 000-square-foot retail space on Fifth Avenue " right next to Swarovski and down the block from Rolex. How much Labubu can the city take? Last fall, the…...
A Gramercy Studio With Lovely Casement Windows for $725, 000
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (34+ words) This week, we've got range (a studio and a four-bedroom) 81 Irving Pl. , Apt. 11 A 45 W. 10th St. , Apt. 1 F 518 W. 134th St. , Apt. 21 256 Bergen St. , Apt. 2 F...