Walkabout: America’s Best Bad Actor, Corse Payton, 2
(Corse Payton, Etta Reed Payton and servant, backstage at their theater, 1903. Photo: Museum of the City of New York) In our last post, we met Corse Payton, self-billed as “America’s Best Bad Actor.” He More...
Last Week’s Biggest Sales
1. PARK SLOPE $2,600,000 587 5th Street GMAP P*Shark We liked this limestone home when it was HOTD back in September 2011. We said: “The parlor floor is gorgeous and the two-story extension results in a very More...
Walkabout: America’s Best Bad Actor, Corse Payton
Does anyone remember the Saturday Night Live sketches by Jon Lovitz featuring his “Master Thespian”? Mr. Thespian was an outrageous ham, over enunciating everything, indicating broadly, affecting a bad upper-crust More...
Past and Present: 89 Gerry Street
A Look at Brooklyn, then and now. From the collection of the Museum of the City of New York comes this wonderful photograph of small business in Brooklyn, from 1924. The photograph is of the White Silver Wet Wash More...
Now Renting in Williamsburg: 227 Grand Street
Rental units are now on the market at 227 Grand Street, the formerly stalled Karl Fischer project in Williamsburg. Aptsandlofts.com is marketing one-, two-, and three-bedroom units priced between $3,300 and $5,000 More...
Argentinian Celebs Buy Northside Piers Penthouse
Nicolás Repetto, an Argentinian newscaster, purchased a penthouse unit at Northside Piers, according to public records filed on Friday. Repetto is one half of a Buenos Aires power couple, as his wife, Florencia More...
373 Wythe Avenue Still Chugging Along
Here’s an update on a never-ending, Karl Fischer-designed project at 373 Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg. Construction workers demolished the one-story commercial building previously there in 2009. Then, construction More...
80 Met in Williamsburg is Officially Sold Out
It took some price cuts, but the Steiner-developed 80 Met condo in Williamsburg is now officially sold out, according to a press release sent out today. As of March, the 123-unit development was 90 percent sold More...
A Tour of the Wythe Hotel, Open Today
Today is the grand opening of Williamsburg’s Wythe Hotel, the $32 million dollar project to transform a historic industrial building into an upscale hotel. It’s also the grand opening of Andrew Tarlow’s More...
Rental of the Day: 300 Graham Avenue
This studio apartment at 300 Graham Avenue has the feeling of an artist loft, without the price tag to match. The exposed brick and beams are matched with some newer finishes, as well as amenities like a gym, laundry More...