• Gravesend’s new condo record is courtesy of a home-grown
developer,
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    Gravesend’s new condo record is courtesy of a home-grown developer

    An $8 million sale doesn’t typically raise eyebrows in Brooklyn’s Gravesend neighborhood.  The enclave, home to a tight-knit Syrian-Jewish community, has become known for its single-family homes that often trade for millions of dollars, as wealthy local families swap expensive homes like trading car

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  • WATCH: Author Michael Gross on billionaire playground St.
Barts,
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    WATCH: Author Michael Gross on billionaire playground St. Barts

    For an island that doesn’t even span 10 square miles, St. Barts has taken on an outsized importance in the world of luxury living.  It’s what Michael Gross — bestselling author and “premier chronicler of the rich and the jet set” — writes about in his new book “Treasured Island: St. Barts and Its Ba

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  • Long Island man convicted in $4.7M Harlem deed theft
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    Long Island man convicted in $4.7M Harlem deed theft scheme

    A jury found Joseph Makhani guilty of stealing the deeds of two Harlem brownstones with a combined value of nearly $4.7 million, the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James announced on Wednesday. The AG indicted Makhani, 63, twice — in 2021 and 2023 — for deed theft at 107 West 118th Stre

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