540 W 28 +art is an artistic lifestyle building thriving in the heart of the New York art gallery district. On a Thursday night residents could easily roam the streets steps from their apartment and stumble on four or five gallery openings serving cheap alcohol of all sorts. You to can peruse the upcoming and already established artists on display for the quirky and diverse art starved crowd. If you haven’t experienced this New York scene I highly suggest it. You never know who you might run into.

+art, a condo …

200 11th Avenue has been under construction for awhile now. The units in this building are almost all sold. According to StreetEasy the only remaining condo that is not in contract yet is #5S, which is a beautiful 3 bedroom 3 1/2 bathroom unit with your own private garage and car lift. Thats right people this is the famous “Sky Garage” building. You can own this luxurious space for only $5,950,000.
The most recent purchaser in this ground breaking building is the interior designer to the stars Jamie Drake. He forked …

It has been years with discussions and rumors about the expansion of the Whitney Museum. As I am sure you all know the new Downtown Whitney Museum will be located as a anchor to the already exciting High Line. New York Magazine reports that the new space will be home to a scheduled sculpture garden, research library, roof deck, auditorium, cafe and much more. The museum designed by architect Renzo Piano will be another classic New York hub in the art world. Just picture living in close proximity to works …

New York real estate, like all other areas of the economy, has suffered the negative effects of the recession. Yet it sometimes has seemed that niche, high-end properties have been immune to the recession. In the past a name brand location, developer or even interior designer has been able to keep prices afloat. This however no longer holds true in the current market climate. This the past week, several high profile celebrities sold their New York condos for, sometimes drastically, reduced prices. It seems that even with the cache of …

Former boy bander Lance Bass is saying bye bye bye to his old home and putting down new roots at the Chelsea Mercantile. According to an article in the New York Times, the N’Sync star also looked at a few other apartments, including one at 456 West 19th Street before settling on an his Chelsea abode.
“He loved the apartment,” said Robby Browne, a senior vice president of the Corcoran Group, who was Mr. Bass’s broker. “And he especially loved the common charges.”

The common charges noted above are, apparently, among the …

Good news for landlords, and bad news for renters – The Real Estate Group of New York’s most recent market report, for the month of April, was released today, and it shows that things are, however slowly, picking up. According to TREGNY, rents have gone up 1.1 percent since March, and happily, for the first time in a long time, they’re up 0.27 percent from this time last year. Now, don’t get your knickers in a knot just yet, because TREGNY tempers the good news with the bad – vacancies …

The sunshine’s out in full force today, and this morning, an email from CB2 hit our inbox, inviting us to check out their wide selection of outdoor furniture. Don’t mind if we do, CB2! Sadly for us, our current home doesn’t include any sort of terrace (though it does include a good deal of common outdoor space). We’re hoping that next time we hit the pavement for our house hunt, we’ll find a place with an outdoor space that belongs to us, and us only, because we’ve placed the following …

How do you track how many people enter a public park?  In the case of New York’s newest park, the Highline, the answer was to guess.
The next generation of New York city public parks arrived in the form of Highline Park last June, a mile-and-a-half-long park elevated several stories above the ground.  There are places to sit and soak in the rays, a stand where local vendors can apply for a temporary 29-day concessionaire permit to sell food and drinks, and a stunning array of flowers and trees lining an …

It’s our third week into the fabulosity that is HGTV’s new show, Selling New York, and finally, we encountered someone worth of the word fabulosity: New York fashion designer Indashio. On last night’s show, Indashio, feathered cap on head and wishlist in hand, was determined to find a perfect new live/work space. His budget was $15,000 a month for a rental apartment, and he was hoping to find something bigger and better than his current 2 bedroom/2 bathroom abode. On Indashio’s wishlist? A high floor. A room for his studio. …

We love celebrity real estate – while the paparazzi give us shots of the celebs filling up their cars and chowing down on fries, it’s rare that we get to see the homes of famous folk. Doing so feels private and therefore, somewhat sneaky. That being said, we couldn’t resist the chance to take a peek into The Bounty Hunter’s Gerard Butler’s Chelsea home.

For more photos, pick up the newest issue of Architectural Digest, on newsstands now.

If there’s one thing we love about our current home, it’s that we drag ourselves home, ragged and exhausted, from a raucous Saturday night out, the building is so quiet one could hear a pin drop. Such is not the case at new building Ohm, which, to the horror of uptight upper class denizens everywhere, is offering a club-like atmosphere in the lobby. Ohm, which is located on the corner of 11th Avenue and 30th Street. An area rife with nightclubs, the Chelsea/Clinton border doesn’t exactly need another place to …

Even in a recession, New York City always manages to stand up straight, both literally and figuratively. While other cities have pretty much halted their new construction, New York is chugging along. New properties hit the market all the time – and we’ve compiled the places that we predict will be the best buildings of 2010.
10. 100 11th Avenue
Developer: Cape Advisors, Inc.
Architect: Jean Nouvel
Marketing: Corcoran Sunshine
Price Range: Starting at $3.6 million
A new development in Western Chelsea, 100 Eleventh Avenue is an eco-friendly building offering one to four bedroom residences with …