• East End’s middle market steals spotlight in second quarter
sales,
The Real Deal

    East End’s middle market steals spotlight in second quarter sales

    Long Island’s East End may be known for its trophy estates, but it was the middle market that drove sales in the region last quarter. While activity in the Hamptons and the North Fork ticked down in the second quarter, homes above the market’s entry level but short of its upper echelons accounted fo

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  • “Housing for billionaires” is not the problem,
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    “Housing for billionaires” is not the problem

    Ben Kallos was upset. Not hostile, but definitely not happy. The former Council member had called this spring to object to my column about Hal Fetner’s failed attempt to build housing on a NYCHA site. This paragraph in particular bothered him: “Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other progressives are now pus

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  • NY Dirt: Mamdani remains bullish on
office-to-resi ,
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    NY Dirt: Mamdani remains bullish on office-to-resi 

    Office-to-residential conversions haven’t fallen out of favor with the mayor. Buckling columns at the former Pfizer headquarters in Midtown weren’t enough to deter the mayor’s pursuit of office-to-residential conversions as part of his broader housing plan for 200,000 units over the next decade. The

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