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What you want for the holidays - For the active DIY-er (1) - Money Magazine

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Put an end to one of your biggest frustrations: burrowing through your toolbox for gear. An open-topped tool bag keeps supplies organized and accessible. This basic model has 15 small pouches, plus loops for larger tools, and a compartmentalized tray for keeping screws, hooks, washers, and other doodads sorted and at the ready.

Developers dodge blow with FHA - Crain's New York Business

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Last week, developers across the city dodged what could have been a lethal blow when federal authorities decided against tightening a loan program that has become a lifeline for many of them.

Developers dodge blow with FHA - Crain's New York Business

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Real Estate 2001: Neighborhood Profiles

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Once dismissed as a postcollege dormitory for frat types bunking up to save a buck, the Upper East Side, east of Lexington Avenue, has morphed into a neighborhood of nesting professionals. "Once people had the money for more space, they either moved closer to the Park or to the suburbs," says Citi Habitats vice-president Gordon Golub. "Larger apartments were vacant for many weeks—often months—at a time." But once crime rates dropped and the New Economy hit, landlords recognized a demand for more space and began combining smaller apartments into larger ones and rapidly converting rentals into condos.

Real Estate 2001: Neighborhood Profiles

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Once dismissed as a postcollege dormitory for frat types bunking up to save a buck, the Upper East Side, east of Lexington Avenue, has morphed into a neighborhood of nesting professionals. "Once people had the money for more space, they either moved closer to the Park or to the suburbs," says Citi Habitats vice-president Gordon Golub. "Larger apartments were vacant for many weeks—often months—at a time." But once crime rates dropped and the New Economy hit, landlords recognized a demand for more space and began combining smaller apartments into larger ones and rapidly converting rentals into condos.

Living In - Astoria, Queens - In Astoria, Queens, Everyone’s Invited to This Block Party - NYTimes.com

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IF one wanted to encapsulate everything that defines Queens into a single neighborhood — and who wouldn’t, really — the result might very well be Astoria.

8.5 Bathrooms, Seven Bedrooms, $1 M. Off | The New York Observer

There is one school of thought that says uptown luxury Manhattan real estate brokers typify a dying breed of pristine professionalism, and another that considers them a terrifying swarm of overpowered and underprincipled bullies. The truth is in between: High-end New York City real estate is a wonderful and strange little world of artfully ambitious salesmanship.

Take the new Rushmore condo on Riverside Drive, where well over 30 buyers are reportedly fighting to get out of their contracts for new apartments. One executive who was going to buy two condos for $6.9 million, for example, sued over the developer’s closing deadline, certificate of occupancy and construction defects, according to a Real Deal article.

But when you look at the floor plan for the building’s 7,200-square-foot duplex—a gorgeous floor plan, a poetic floor plan—you’d never guess that anything could even potentially ever be wrong here. The maid’s bedroom leads to the kitchen, to the breakfast area, and to the family room, which opens up—through double doors—to a palatial dining room/living room. That takes you to the multimedia room, then to the cellar, to the study and the guest room, to the walk-in closet and then, beautifully, back to the maid’s room.

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Ask an Expert: Mortgages, Part 3 - Real Estate Q&A Blog - NYTimes.com

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What should you do if you lose your job or come into a financial crisis and find you cannot make mortgage payments? Should one plan for such a contingency and if so, how?

Born Rich | A Preview of Bravo’s ‘NYC Prep’ - The Moment Blog - NYTimes.com

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