http://212homes.com Guide to Apartments in NYC Fri, 30 May 2008 15:45:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At least one person was killed Friday and at least two others are severely injured due to a construction crane collapse in Upper Manhattan during the morning rush hour. Witnesses at the scene say that both the cab and the arm of the crane fell over 20 stories to the ground, ... http://212homes.com/index.php/apartments/6025/crane-collapses-falls-20-stories-1-killed.html While most of the nation deals with a housing slowdown and slump, Manhattan is seeing its highest prices ever. The average price of a Manhattan apartment in the first three months of 2008 was $1.7 million. This number is up 33.5% from the same period in 2007, according to brokerage firm ... http://212homes.com/index.php/apartments/6024/nyc-apartment-prices-hit-record-highs-slowdown-on-the-horizon.html Manhattan doesn't seem to be affected by the downturn in the housing market that is hitting the rest of the country. 2007 was a record year for apartment sales in New York City, sales jumped over 3 percent compared to 2006, selling about 18 days faster. The number of apartments that sold for ... http://212homes.com/index.php/apartments/6023/city-immune-to-housing-crisis.html The actor who plays Harry Potter in the movie series has just purchased a three-bedroom, 2,450-square-foot apartment overlooking the Hudson River. Daniel Radcliffe, who already owns a two-bedroom $4.3 million home in Manhattan, shelled out an amazing $4.9 million on this second New York apartment. Want pictures? Check out Radar. http://212homes.com/index.php/apartments/6022/harry-potter-buys-49-million-nyc-apartment.html Although it's not an apartment building, it is worth mentioning that the GM building is up for sale, and it could go for $3 billion - a record price for an office building. The General Motors building, 50-stories and constructed in 1968 is on the southeast corner of Central Park across ... http://212homes.com/index.php/apartments/6021/gm-building-up-for-sale.html The Washington Post today ran an article on the disappearance of grocery stores across New York City.  It's particularly timely, given that the one small store that was just literally around the corner from me, just closed down about 4 months ago.As real estate prices grow (and although they aren't ... http://212homes.com/index.php/apartments/6020/not-an-easy-trip-to-the-store.html Yes, I didn't leave off any zeros in that title - $14,000 was the sales price for UES studio apartment. Yes, UES Manhattan. New York. USA. Schoolteacher Matthew Thomas earned the right to buy the apartment in a lottery that makes a small number of apartments available to people with yearly incomes ... http://212homes.com/index.php/apartments/6016/ues-studio-goes-for-14000.html The NYC Department of Finance is being told to go back to the drawing board after city lawyers requested that it recalculate th method it used in determining the value of rental apartments, co-ops and condos. Now, the assessment notices sent out last month to residential owners are no longer valid, ... http://212homes.com/index.php/apartments/6015/city-will-tax-co-ops-at-lower-rate-apartment-assessments-to-rise.html The second-hand smoke lawsuit at Ansonia, a condominium on Broadway and 73rd Street, raises an interesting question for co-op boards across the city - should the number of lawyers in the building be limited? Aside from the obvious issues of dealing with the nuisance of second-hand smoke in co-ops, apartments and ... http://212homes.com/index.php/apartments/6014/smoke-lawsuit-has-boards-wondering-if-lawyers-should-be-limited.html Here are some of our best bets for apartment listings: http://212homes.com/index.php/apartments/6012/apartment-listings.html