East Harlem
Bjarke Ingels's undulating East Harlem rental is close to topping out
The building will eventually stand 11 stories tall and bring 233 apartments to the neighborhood.
East Harlem rezoning wins City Planning approval
With the confidence of City Planning, the rezoning will now move onto the City Council for its final vote.
What $1,450/month gets you in NYC right now
See what $1,450 rents you in neighborhoods like Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Astoria, and East Harlem.
$3.9M East Harlem townhouse is neighborhood’s most expensive sold home
The four-bedroom townhouse bested the area’s previous $2.24 million record.
African burial ground site in Harlem will get affordable apartments, memorial
City council voted to approve the project’s zoning application and will allow a mixed-use project to rise.
East Harlem rezoning faces mounting public opposition
Local residents expressed concerns that the new projects would rapidly escalate rents and eventually displace them from the neighborhood.
New York statue of doctor who experimented on black women eyed for removal
Dr. J. Marion Sims performed examinations on enslaved black women between 1845 and 1849.
East Harlem rental rising 68 stories is close to being approved
The full block project on East 96th Street will bring three schools, and 1,100 apartments to the neighborhood.
East Harlem rezoning proposal loses another key backer
On Thursday morning Gale Brewer announced that she could not support the de Blasio administration’s rezoning proposal in its current form.
First look inside Karim Rashid’s Day-Glo East Harlem rental
Get a peek at the apartments within the designer’s quirky, brightly colored building on Pleasant Avenue.
In Harlem, two new buildings offer up affordable apartments from $913/month
The projects bring a combined 24 units of affordable housing to the neighborhood.
Far Rockaway rezoning inches forward with City Planning approval
The proposal needs to be approved by the City Council before it can be put to action.
Bjarke Ingels’s undulating East Harlem rental begins its ascent
Gotham East 126th Residential will bring 233 rentals to the neighborhood come 2018.
Plan to relocate East Harlem playground to make way for massive rental rankles residents
Two state senators are pushing forward bills that would end the use of the Marx Brothers Playground at East 96th Street—they’re supposedly doing this at the request of the City Council and the de Blasio administration.
City will accelerate construction of 2,400 affordable East Harlem apartments
Just one percent of the city’s newly created affordable apartments over the last three years were in the neighborhood.
Uptown rental with Harlem Renaissance-inspired art hits the market
The project features a total of 60 market-rentals that come in studios through three-bedrooms, and many of them have outdoor space.
East Harlem rezoning effort is officially underway
In the first step of the ULURP, Community Board 11 now has 60 days to review the city’s proposals, following which this will head to the borough president’s office, followed by the City Planning Commission, and finally the City Council.
East Harlem, Bed-Stuy shatter records for priciest homes
A record is anticipated in East Harlem, and one is set in Bed-Stuy, for the neighborhoods’ most expensive homes.
68-story rental tower approved by East Harlem’s community board
If it moves forward, the building will be a mixed-use project that will house three schools and retail space along with a mix of 1,100 affordable and market-rate apartments, all spread across 1.3 million square feet.
East Harlem and Staten Island will get 100 new public art murals
Following the success of the Lower East Side’s 100 Gates Project, the public initiative will head to two new neighborhoods.
Affordable rentals in East Harlem's latest luxury building now up for grabs
Amenities at the rental include a rooftop terrace, a fitness center with outdoor space, bicycle storage, an on-site laundry room, and parking as well.
More than 700 affordable apartments, African Burial Ground memorial, will rise at East Harlem bus depot
The city has announced plans to convert a former MTA bus depot on East 126th Street and First Avenue in East Harlem into approximately 730 apartments and a permanent memorial for the historic African Burial Ground.
Karim Rashid's colorful East Harlem rentals up for grabs from $2,500/month
The designer’s Day-Glo building on Pleasant Avenue is coming along, and occupancy is expected by April.
Affordable East Harlem development will have 655 passive house rentals
The nearly block-large project will bring amenities like a supermarket, YMCA, and health care facility to the neighborhood. It will also oust four community gardens from their sites, before offering them a new home within the development.
East Harlem’s onetime Day-Glo balcony building is on the rise
Which of these things is not like the others? That’d be Karim Rashid’s 329 Pleasant Avenue, now on the rise in East Harlem.
In Harlem, a sleek one-bedroom in a new building seeks $693,000
A one-bedroom in Harlem’s new Aurum building, described as a "harmonious synthesis of thoughtful design," is on the market for just shy of $700,000.
East Harlem readies itself for fully-affordable, 400-apartment complex
The project will rise right next to the existing Lexington Garden I development located on the eastern half of the block bound by East 107th and 108th Streets and Lexington and Park Avenues.
East Harlem rezoning could add 3,500 apartments to neighborhood
The rezoning concerns a 95-block stretch that is generally bounded by East 104th Street on the south, East 132nd Street to the north, Second Avenue to the east, and Park Avenue to the West.
Extell’s Harlem Pathmark-replacing project finally takes off
Real estate experts told Crain’s that Extell could build up to 613,605 square feet of residential space at the site if it adhered to the city’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing policy. That translates to about 600 apartments.
Bjarke Ingels’s undulating East Harlem rentals get new renderings
Construction has commenced on the latest NYC project designed by starchitect Bjarke Ingels, a rental building being developed by the Blumenfeld Development Group in East Harlem. Wednesday's groundbreaking ceremony came with a slew of new renders.
Proposed East Harlem rezoning could add 30-story buildings to the neighborhood
The area under consideration stretches from Second Avenue to Park Avenue between 104th and 125th Streets, and from 126th Street onward it stretches west to Fifth Avenue and north up to 132nd Street. Plans also call for transit improvements.
Over 1,700 NYCHA apartments plagued by gas woes
Thousands of residents of NYCHA-run apartments are currently without gas through the city, and the measures the Housing Authority is taking to compensate are inadequate, tenants say.
Adorable Harlem townhouse with conversion potential wants $3.5M
It could be converted into a pretty sweet single-family home
In East Harlem, condos with Central Park views ask from $680K
Heritage Real Estate Partners’s upscale East Harlem condo launched sales over the weekend from $680,000. Wedged between East 103rd and 104th streets along Park Avenue, 11 of the building’s 72 condos are now up for grabs.
A 16-story apartment building will rise on Metropolitan Hospital Center’s parking lot
The public hospital has filed plans to construct a Dattner Architects-designed tower at 1880 First Avenue that will house 153 apartments.
Durst finally closes on massive Harlem development site for $91M
The property, located at 1800 Park Avenue, at the intersection of East 125th Street and right across from the elevated Metro-North train station, was once primed for residential project with about 700 apartments, courtesy of Ian Bruce Eichner.
East Harlem bus depot on burial ground will give way to memorial
Last week, the city’s Economic Development Corporation announced in the City Record, its tentative plans for the site and they include 730 apartments spread out over 655,215 square feet, aside from the memorial.
These NYC neighborhoods had the highest rents this summer
New York City is still the second most expensive city in the country to live in, but rents for one-bedrooms creeped up every so slightly throughout the city this summer. Read on for the most and least expensive places to rent now.
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Map: Harlem's 10 most expensive homes for sale right now
This list features a mix of condos, multi-family townhouses, and single-family townhouses, but what's predominant is Circa Central Park with at least four apartments there making the listing including an over $8 million five-bedroom unit.