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Aston Martin’s First Residential Project Makes Landfall In Miami

July 5, 2019

The building is designed to look like a windsail ASTON MARTIN RESIDENCES MIAMI This week the first residential building project for luxury car manufacturer Aston Martin saw the initial few hundred drum loads of cement being poured for its 66-story building in downtown Miami. In partnership with G & G Business Developments, Argentina's largest global property developer run by supermarket magnate German Coto, the building will bring 391...

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Six-Hour Waits: The West Village Is New York’s Hottest Dining Hood

July 3, 2019

New openings such as Pastis and Bar Pisellino are making the West Side the best side.   Source: Bar Pisellino     The West Side of Manhattan should be dead to the food world. When the landmark restaurant Barbuto shut its garage doors at the end of May, it seemed to announce the end of real Village dining, where dishes like roast chicken with salsa verde and smashed potatoes had...

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Best Spots to View Macy’s 2019 Fourth of July Fireworks in New York and New Jersey

July 2, 2019

The "Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Show" is back to provide another grand display of fireworks. The best spot to watch it live and in person is from the East River. Here's some more spots to watch. 1 of 9 Getty Images The best spot to watch the 4th of July fireworks live and in person is from the East River. (Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images) 2 of 9 Getty Images If being afar to take it all in is more your styl...

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Manhattan Home Sales Surge Ahead of Mansion Tax Hike

July 2, 2019

Buyers flooded the market, reversing a downturn in sales and prices that has plagued the city for at least a year and a half   A tax hike went into effect Monday on home sales of $2 million or more. GETTY IMAGES Home sales in Manhattan spiked in the second quarter, as eager consumers rushed to make a deal before an increase in the city’s mansion tax went into effect on Monday, acco...

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Madrid Luxury Home Prices Accelerate Upward 8 Percent in 2018

July 2, 2019

Global real estate consultant Knight Frank is reporting that the average home price in Madrid declined 30% in peak-to-trough terms following the financial crisis of 2008, but now sits 46% above the market low reached in Q3 2012. The recovery of Madrid's prime residential market gathered pace at the end of 2016 and since early 2017 Knight Frank's Madrid Prime Residential Index has outperformed our 43-city average with luxury prices accelerating ...

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Richest Cities In The World: The Top 10 Cities With The Most Billionaires

July 2, 2019

New York has been the most popular city for billionaires for five years in a row. Photographer: Craig Warga/Bloomberg © 2015 BLOOMBERG FINANCE LP People with ten-digit fortunes can live pretty much anywhere they want. As it turns out, many like the same spots. Of the 2,153 members of the 2019 Forbes World’s Billionaires List, 551 live in just 10 of the world’s 1,860 cities. Billionaires living in this relative handful of locations po...

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LA tests wavy bike barrier to protect cyclists from passing cars

July 1, 2019

Research suggests a solid white line isn’t enough to shield riders The lane delineator was installed for the CicLAvia event Sunday.  Photo courtesy LADOT Bicyclists traveling along a three-block stretch of Venice Boulevard Sunday enjoyed a little extra protection from passing cars. Just in time for a Mid-City CicLAvia open streets event, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation installed an undulating metal barrier dubbed “The Waveâ...

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NYC Pride March 2019: Parade route and street closures

June 29, 2019

  Everything you need to know about the city’s biggest celebration of its LGBTQ community Photo by Steven Ferdman/Getty Images NYC Pride is here! And this year—the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising—is a big one for New York’s LGBTQ community: The city is hosting WorldPride, a massive, monthlong celebration of the LGTBQ community around the globe. Millions of visitors are expected to descend upon NYC for the festiv...

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Hamish Bowles Takes in the Best of Madrid, Past and Present

June 27, 2019

  Photo: Hamish Bowles Madrid really is the city that never sleeps, as I discovered when I hied thither for the opening festivities for Balenciaga and Spanish Painting, curated by Eloy Martinez de la Pera, which opened last week at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. I raced from the plane for a splendid paella lunch chez photographer Gorka Postigo with Rossy de Palma and her daughter Luna, Spanish Vogue’s efferves...

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New home sales in Spain soar in the last 12 months

June 27, 2019

Spanish luxury real estate agency Lucas Fox witnessed sales of new homes triple in the period from January to April 2019, compared to the same time last year. Lucas Fox said the upsurge in new homes transactions is largely due to a significant increase in sales by its Barcelona office, with the number of sales completed during the first four months of 2019 almost eight times more than in the same period last year. This is also down to the fact t...

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