NYC’s AIDS Memorial debuted on December 1, in a triangular park adjacent to the hospital at the forefront of the epidemic. The site of the memorial is symbolic, but it’s also representative of the epidemic’s fraught relationship to NYC real estate.
Jimmy Choo co-founder Tamara Mellon may still be trying to sell her palatial Upper East Side penthouse, but that hasn’t stopped the designer from snapping up another enviable pad.
As Manhattan real estate continues to break historic sales numbers, top brokers are anxious about a growing crisis in constructing housing for non-billionaires. There are plenty of "over-priced" luxury homes, but that’s not what is needed.