Greatest Real Estate Finds

[robberbaron4u]

1903 "Southern Colonial" sited on a full city block replete with pool and outbuildings, $600,000. Renovated at a cost of $1M in the early 1970s with recent mechanical updates.

[Lotus-eater]

The Stahl House in Photos

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The L.A. Case Study House architect Pierre Koenig designed for C.H. "Buck" Stahl and his wife, Carlotta, is now available for $25 million.

 

 

Edited November 29 by Lotus-eater

[BSR]

16 minutes ago, Lotus-eater said:

The Stahl House in Photos

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The L.A. Case Study House architect Pierre Koenig designed for C.H. "Buck" Stahl and his wife, Carlotta, is now available for $25 million.

 

 

I get that it’s historic and beautiful and all, but $25 million for 2,200sf?!  *gulp*

[Lotus-eater]

26 minutes ago, BSR said:

I get that it’s historic and beautiful and all, but $25 million for 2,200sf?!  *gulp*

Just get a 50-year mortgage.

[mike carey]

17 minutes ago, Lotus-eater said:

Just get a 50-year mortgage.

Or two, and make it 100 Years of Solitude.

[MikeBiDude]

3 hours ago, BSR said:

I get that it’s historic and beautiful and all, but $25 million for 2,200sf?!  *gulp*

You’re paying for the view.

[Luv2play]

4 hours ago, BSR said:

I get that it’s historic and beautiful and all, but $25 million for 2,200sf?!  *gulp*

I take it there’s no grass to cut. So that’s something. 

[Lotus-eater]

4 East 79th Street in Photos

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The palatial $68 Million Gilded Age townhouse in New York City was the site of a brutal murder in 1915.

 

 

Edited December 5 by Lotus-eater

[+ azdr0710]

for fun, I tried to find the lowest-priced SFR (single family residence, not land, condo, or townhouse) for sale in legendary zip 90210.....this might be it??.....a 3/2 with 2055 sq. ft. on 0.16 acre listed at $3.4M.......after going thru the 68 pictures, you'll see why the listing realtor uses classic realtor-speak phrases (all caps!) like "POSSIBILITY IS ENDLESS", "BRING YOUR SOPHISTICATION, YOUR IMAGINATION", "YOU ARE CREATING YOUR OWN "MASTER PIECE (sic)"..... obviously, a fixer-upper and that's ok.....noble of the agent to not hold back on the pictures!!.....ohh, annual property tax is $40K+......

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/713-N-Doheny-Dr-Beverly-Hills-CA-90210/20520013_zpid/?

 

 

Edited December 5 by azdr0710

[+ azdr0710]

and #2 cheapest in 90210 is this 2882 sq. ft. on 0.46 acre unabashedly being marketed as a tear-down.....no interior shots at all (!), but realtor is not so proud as to censor the unfinished roof work and the swamp for a pool.....$4.995M.....$60K property tax

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1150-Laurel-Way-Beverly-Hills-CA-90210/20522037_zpid/

 

Edited December 5 by azdr0710

[samhexum]

Legendary Architect Frank Gehry Has Died at the Age of 96

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The prolific Pritzker Prize winner was known for his sculptural, avant-garde buildings including the Guggenheim Bilbao

 

Frank Gehry, the prolific Canadian-born American architect whose experimental work expanded the aesthetic realm of design and caused the ‘Bilbao effect,’ died in Santa Monica, California on Friday, December 5. He was 96 years old.

Since establishing his architectural practice in Los Angeles in 1962, Gehry explored several areas of design interest and iterations of style throughout the long span of his career. His 1970s Easy Edges and Experimental Edges furniture lines, made of cardboard and fiberboard, were the first works to gain him national interest, as they explored ideas of affordable, sustainable, mass-produced seating during the United States’ environmental movement. However, it was the renovation he made to his own two-story bungalow in Santa Monica, California, giving it a sculptural exploded effect, that established his name in avant-garde architecture; first as an early member of the Deconstructivism movement and later, in 1989, as the winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, having just completed his first project in Europe, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. He was the sixth American to be awarded architecture’s most prestigious accolade.

Later in his life, Gehry worked with his son, the architectural designer Sam Gehry, to create a new Santa Monica home that could better accommodate his needs.

The interior of Gehry’s second Santa Monica home, which appeared in a 2019 issue of AD.

Gehry became an international star for his design of the Guggenheim Bilbao, an undulating titanium and limestone building that also cemented his architectural style. The 1997 project not only brought a major art museum to the quiet, impoverished Spanish city on the Nervión River, but it catalyzed an economic and tourism boom that transformed the town into a cultural destination. In 2001, journalist Robert Hughes coined the term “Bilbao Effect” to describe this rapid social and economic revitalization caused by Gehry’s structure. The project changed the history of contemporary architecture forever, convincing the governments of post-industrial towns of the monetary value of design and whipping them into a continued frenzy to secure their own architectural beacon.

 

The same year, the architect turned his sole proprietor firm into a partnership with several senior architects and continued to build his oscillating architecture in cities across Asia, Europe, and the United States. Signature projects include the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (2003), his first major project in the city; the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago (2004), the building previously known as New York by Gehry at Eight Spruce Street in New York (2011), his first skyscraper; the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris (2014); the Menlo Park campus for Meta (2015); and the LUMA Arles museum in France (2021).

 

The Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, designed by Gehry.

Gehry’s work has always focused on architecture as sculpture; to the Pritzker jury in 1989, he cited artist Constantin Brâncuși as more of an inspiration than many architects of the day. However, he didn’t consider his work all form-based and acknowledged that architecture had functional requirements that were inherently necessary too. “I approach each building as a sculptural object, a spatial container, a space with light and air, a response to context and appropriateness of feeling and spirit,” he once said. “To this container, this sculpture, the user brings his baggage, his program, and interacts with it to accommodate his needs. If he can't do that, I've failed."

 

Silicon Valley home designed by Gehry  

Circa 1993 High Sticking tall chairs designed by Gehry sit in the great room of his recent Silicon Valley project.

Born Ephraim Owen Goldberg in Toronto, Canada in 1929, Gehry and his family immigrated to LA in 1947. His mother, Sadie Thelma, was a Polish immigrant and his father, Irving Goldberg, was from Brooklyn. When Gehry first arrived in the United States he got a job as a truck driver and began taking night classes at Los Angeles City College. Soon after, he was accepted to study architecture at the University of Southern California and began working for Victor Gruen Associates, inventor of the modern shopping mall, after graduation. He was conscripted to the Army for a year and when he returned, he continued to Harvard Graduate School of Design for a master’s degree in city planning. In 1961, he moved his own young family to Paris for a year while he worked for architect André Remondet, and the following year, set down roots again in Los Angeles to start his own firm.

Beyond the Pritzker Prize, Gehry has been lauded with the Japan Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale prize for architecture (1992), the National Medal of the Arts (1998), the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal (1999), the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2002), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016).

Edited December 5 by samhexum
for absolutely NO @%!*ING reason at all!

[samhexum]

LOW COST APARTMENT AVAILABLE!!!

 

Mamdani to move into Gracie Mansion, giving up his rent-stabilized apartment in Queens

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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will move into Gracie Mansion and said he will miss cooking dinner, riding the elevator and hearing music in...

Mamdani to move into Gracie Mansion, giving up his rent-stabilized apartment in Queens.

[Luv2play]

On 12/5/2025 at 5:20 PM, samhexum said:

Legendary Architect Frank Gehry Has Died at the Age of 96

APPLE.NEWS

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The prolific Pritzker Prize winner was known for his sculptural, avant-garde buildings including the Guggenheim Bilbao

 

Frank Gehry, the prolific Canadian-born American architect whose experimental work expanded the aesthetic realm of design and caused the ‘Bilbao effect,’ died in Santa Monica, California on Friday, December 5. He was 96 years old.

Since establishing his architectural practice in Los Angeles in 1962, Gehry explored several areas of design interest and iterations of style throughout the long span of his career. His 1970s Easy Edges and Experimental Edges furniture lines, made of cardboard and fiberboard, were the first works to gain him national interest, as they explored ideas of affordable, sustainable, mass-produced seating during the United States’ environmental movement. However, it was the renovation he made to his own two-story bungalow in Santa Monica, California, giving it a sculptural exploded effect, that established his name in avant-garde architecture; first as an early member of the Deconstructivism movement and later, in 1989, as the winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, having just completed his first project in Europe, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. He was the sixth American to be awarded architecture’s most prestigious accolade.

Later in his life, Gehry worked with his son, the architectural designer Sam Gehry, to create a new Santa Monica home that could better accommodate his needs.

The interior of Gehry’s second Santa Monica home, which appeared in a 2019 issue of AD.

Gehry became an international star for his design of the Guggenheim Bilbao, an undulating titanium and limestone building that also cemented his architectural style. The 1997 project not only brought a major art museum to the quiet, impoverished Spanish city on the Nervión River, but it catalyzed an economic and tourism boom that transformed the town into a cultural destination. In 2001, journalist Robert Hughes coined the term “Bilbao Effect” to describe this rapid social and economic revitalization caused by Gehry’s structure. The project changed the history of contemporary architecture forever, convincing the governments of post-industrial towns of the monetary value of design and whipping them into a continued frenzy to secure their own architectural beacon.

 

The same year, the architect turned his sole proprietor firm into a partnership with several senior architects and continued to build his oscillating architecture in cities across Asia, Europe, and the United States. Signature projects include the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (2003), his first major project in the city; the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago (2004), the building previously known as New York by Gehry at Eight Spruce Street in New York (2011), his first skyscraper; the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris (2014); the Menlo Park campus for Meta (2015); and the LUMA Arles museum in France (2021).

 

The Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, designed by Gehry.

Gehry’s work has always focused on architecture as sculpture; to the Pritzker jury in 1989, he cited artist Constantin Brâncuși as more of an inspiration than many architects of the day. However, he didn’t consider his work all form-based and acknowledged that architecture had functional requirements that were inherently necessary too. “I approach each building as a sculptural object, a spatial container, a space with light and air, a response to context and appropriateness of feeling and spirit,” he once said. “To this container, this sculpture, the user brings his baggage, his program, and interacts with it to accommodate his needs. If he can't do that, I've failed."

 

Silicon Valley home designed by Gehry  

Circa 1993 High Sticking tall chairs designed by Gehry sit in the great room of his recent Silicon Valley project.

Born Ephraim Owen Goldberg in Toronto, Canada in 1929, Gehry and his family immigrated to LA in 1947. His mother, Sadie Thelma, was a Polish immigrant and his father, Irving Goldberg, was from Brooklyn. When Gehry first arrived in the United States he got a job as a truck driver and began taking night classes at Los Angeles City College. Soon after, he was accepted to study architecture at the University of Southern California and began working for Victor Gruen Associates, inventor of the modern shopping mall, after graduation. He was conscripted to the Army for a year and when he returned, he continued to Harvard Graduate School of Design for a master’s degree in city planning. In 1961, he moved his own young family to Paris for a year while he worked for architect André Remondet, and the following year, set down roots again in Los Angeles to start his own firm.

Beyond the Pritzker Prize, Gehry has been lauded with the Japan Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale prize for architecture (1992), the National Medal of the Arts (1998), the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal (1999), the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2002), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016).

I don’t think his work will stand the test of time. But then I will not be around to see if that bears out. 

[samhexum]

He’s been the NBA champ, a Finals MVP, and an All-Star nine times over, but the next box basketball star Giannis Antetokounmpo appears to be checking is the one for Brooklyn landlord.

The Milwaukee Bucks’ big man has reportedly purchased a two-building apartment complex at 111 Clarkson Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens for $14.1 million from Seth Brown and Richard Ludwig, the property’s developers. The 28-unit rent-regulated property sits just a block and a half east of Prospect Park, and current tenants have access to a handful of shared amenities, including a roof deck, a virtual doorman, a gym, and a pair of lounges. At the time of publishing, no apartments in the building were listed for rent, but a two-bedroom with one bathroom and a balcony went for $3,699 per month in October, according to Streeteasy.

It should be noted Giannis happens to be one of the NBA’s most opportunistic investors, launching the sports-focused venture capital firm Build Your Legacy last year. He’s also a stakeholder in multiple professional sports teams, like the MLB’s Milwaukee Brewers and the MLS’ Nashville SC, and owns properties, commercial and residential, all over the world. 

[Nue2thegame]

3 hours ago, samhexum said:

He’s been the NBA champ, a Finals MVP, and an All-Star nine times over, but the next box basketball star Giannis Antetokounmpo appears to be checking is the one for Brooklyn landlord.

 

 

 

He’s a big name for sure. 

[samhexum]

Housing lottery for Willets Point Commons officially opens – QNS

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The housing lottery for Willets Point Commons is officially open on HousingConnect.NYC.gov as of Dec. 12. 

Pricing for studio apartments starts at $486 per month for single applicants making between $20,469 and $34,020, and are capped at $4,244 for seven-member households with income totaling anywhere between $152,778 and $301,350.