These beautiful micro apartments show how limiting square footage forces many to magnify their creativity when designing small spaces By Dan Avery January 23, 2023 When you consider that the average price for a Manhattan condo was more than $2,000 per square foot last year—and nearly $2,800 per square foot in the luxury market—thinking small can have real appeal (as well as necessity). Some owners simply want a pied-à-terre for the occasional jaunt into the city. Others are m

BY ORION JONESJAN 5, 2023 7:00 AM From left: The Solaire in Battery Park City; Extell’s Brooklyn Point in downtown Brooklyn; the Skyline Tower in Long Island City; The Cortland NYC; Extell Development’s Gary Barnett; Related Companies’ Stephen Ross (Getty, Extell Development, Google Maps, Jim.henderson, CC BY-SA 4.0 – via Wikimedia Commons) New York condo developers were riding high in the first half of last year as the city’s flourishing housing market, boosted by historical

What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2022? New Empire Corp. was extremely active over the past year with the recent acquisitions of 58-01 Queens Blvd. in Woodside and Flatbush development sites located at 757-767 Flatbush Ave. and 21 Lenox Rd. While it is hard to pick just one notable accomplishment to single out, I extremely proud that our 208 Delancey building was recognized as a best-selling project in Manhatta

Marketproof created three categories – towers, midsize, and boutique – to highlight the buildings that inked the most contracts in 2022. We created a fourth category, “top deals,” to recognize those developments that closed the largest deals of the year. Congratulations are in order to the teams at The Solaire, The Cortland, 208 Delancey, and Aman New York Residences for their #1 finishes in each of their respective categories. Although it did not move enough inventory to m