Real Estate and Housing (Residential)

November 12, 2019

What the Best-Dressed Doors Are Wearing

Giving tired cabinets an upgrade with new hardware is one of the oldest tricks known to decorators — and for good reason. It’s a surprisingly easy […]
October 26, 2019

While California Fires Rage, the Rich Hire Private Firefighters

LOS ANGELES — You can now add firefighting to the list of the ways that the wealthy are different from the rest of the world. The […]
October 18, 2019

The Return of Golden Age Design

Once the scaffolding comes down and construction crews move on, the new Beckford House and Tower condominium buildings now taking shape on Manhattan’s Upper East Side […]
October 15, 2019

Kristin Chenoweth’s Private Stage

For a dozen years, the Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth lived just off the Hudson River on the Upper West Side of […]
October 3, 2019

This House Throws the Hamptons a Curve

When Nina Edwards Anker was growing up, her family spent summers and weekends in a shingled cottage in Southampton, N.Y. An expansion of a carriage house […]
December 30, 2017

Inside the Hollywood Home of Social Media’s Stars. (Don’t Be Shy.)

Advertisement LOS ANGELES — On any given day, something crazy is likely to be happening at 1600 Vine Street, a 550-unit apartment complex in Hollywood. A […]
December 23, 2017

Who Wants to Buy the Most Expensive House in America?

Advertisement “This isn’t the first time two men have fought over me,” Rene Russo says in “Just Getting Started.” That’s about the funniest line in the […]
May 25, 2017

Summer in the Hamptons: Eleven Madison Park and Uber (Finally!) Are Coming to the East End

A year ago, over Memorial Day weekend, Donald J. Trump’s campaign team was in disarray, Hillary Clinton had yet to lock down the Democratic nomination, and […]
August 31, 2016

The Interloper on Avenue B

In the early morning hours of Aug. 7, 1988, Jerry Saltz, now the art critic for New York Magazine but then a struggling 35-year-old writer, stared […]
August 11, 2016

Social Q’s: May I Ignore Orders My Mother Says My Dead Nana Is Sending?

Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES My single mother, 65, is selling the house where I grew up. She told me the buyers asked if they could […]