Penelope Cruz Lists Los Angeles Home for $3.7M" alt="Penelope Cruz Lists Los Angeles Home for $3.7M" />

Oscar-winning Spaniard Penelope Cruz has put her three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bathroom Los Angeles home on the market for $3.695 million. The actress listed the property for lease at $14,500 a month in 2008 and still has the Sunset Strip-area spread listed as an available venue for location shoots. The Real Estalker ... Continue Reading »

Darryl Strawberry Slides Into Manhattan Party Pad" alt="Darryl Strawberry Slides Into Manhattan Party Pad" />

Darryl Strawberry is moving to Manhattan, apparently to tend to his sports-themed restaurant in Queens which sources say is slated to open this summer. After one-upping Donald Trump this spring on "Celebrity Apprentice" and firing himself from the show on grounds of exhaustion, the former all-star Yankees and Mets hitter ... Continue Reading »

Eleanor Roosevelt's $14M NYC Townhouse Perfect for Bush Twin" alt="Eleanor Roosevelt's $14M NYC Townhouse Perfect for Bush Twin" />

Eleanor Roosevelt's four-bedroom Upper East Side townhouse is on the market for a stately $14.5 million. The former first lady lived between 1956 and 1958 in the building on 62nd Street, which is flanked by Second and Third avenues. For that price tag, we would hope to at least have an eagle's view of the Manhattan skyline, ... Continue Reading »

New York Butler's $8.4 Million Inheritance Includes 2 Dakota Apartments" alt="New York Butler's $8.4 Million Inheritance Includes 2 Dakota Apartments" />

Last week, a butler wrestled a rooftop farm in Queens for media dominance and won. That butler was Indra Tamang, the Nepalese man who served actress Ruth Ford for 30 years, and who upon Ford's death inherited approximately $8.4 million worth of her estate: including a collection of Russian surrealist art.and two cushy ... Continue Reading »

Rent Hike for New Yorkers; Affordable Housing for Artists" alt="Rent Hike for New Yorkers; Affordable Housing for Artists" />

This week brought sobering news for rent-stabilized tenants, a dash of hope for broke artists in the form of affordable housing, and more places to rent, in the future, in Brooklyn's Red Hook. The Rent Guidelines Board -- a nine-person panel that dictates what goes down (or up) in New York's rent-stabilized housing -- ... Continue Reading »

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