Summer is almost in full swing and New York is heating up. As the temperatures rise, we want to know how New Yorkers are staying cool — specifically, with water. For an upcoming New York Times story about cooling off at home, we’re looking for the many creative ways people escape the blazing sun. From…
Natale Adgnot didn’t always see the appeal of owning a cabin in the woods. For years, her husband, Sebastien Adgnot, browsed listings for rustic homes in upstate New York and New Jersey from the couple’s apartment in Brooklyn. “But my wife told me, ‘There’s no way I’m going to spend my weekends in a lake…
I was at my station, a folding table dressed up with a burlap cloth, checking in visitors at a Garden Conservancy Open Days event maybe 10 years ago and answering questions from those who had already explored my garden, when I saw someone across the yard taking a photograph. But of what, I wondered —…
Tiburon | $3.295 Million A 1974 house with three bedrooms and three bathrooms, on a 0.3-acre lot with views of San Francisco Bay Almost every room in this home has access to outdoor space, and the expansive deck offers views that stretch to the Golden Gate Bridge and Angel Island. The property is a five-minute…
This week’s properties are a four-bedroom in Norwalk, Conn., and a five-bedroom in White Plains, N.Y.
Manhattan | 269 West 72nd Street, No. 14D Upper West Side Co-op $425,000 A roughly 450-square-foot studio with an entry closet, a windowed kitchen, a dishwasher, a windowed bathroom, window-unit air-conditioning and a hall storage closet, on the 14th floor of a 16-story prewar building with a live-in super, a bike room, a waiting list…
Choosing a good bed frame and mattress is important, but there’s something else that matters nearly as much: The way you dress your bed. Your sheets, pillows and other bedding — and the way they’re arranged — can have a big effect on how appealing your bed is and how good it feels to climb…
Q: I’m a shareholder in a large co-op in Queens. The lease prohibits odors from traveling from one apartment to another, but doesn’t include a smoke-free policy. My elderly downstairs neighbor lives in a rent-stabilized apartment and can no longer go outside to smoke. My bedroom smells like her ashtray, and I have been sleeping…
Saint-Nicolas Parish | €893,000 ($970,000) A five-bedroom loft-style apartment with a private patio in a three-unit building Formerly a commercial storage hanger and now a five-bedroom loft-style apartment, this home is in the Saint-Nicolas parish of the Saint-Genès neighborhood, about two miles south of Place de la Bourse in Bordeaux’s city center. Bounded by the…
Adam Neumann has been doing some downsizing. For several years, the maverick co-founder of what was once the most valuable American start-up, WeWork, has been offloading luxury estates almost as prodigiously as he once stockpiled them. Gone is the 12,000-square-foot manse on 27 Marin County acres with the guitar-shaped living room and three-story water slide….
