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Last June, a month after the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced that it would be adding 1,000 jobs to its Manhattan headquarters within a year and spending $400 million to buy […]

Workmen are putting the finishing touches on a major renovation of the auditorium in the Society for Ethical Culture's building at 2 West 64th Street. The renovation, which started last […]

Two blocks from the Hudson River, in the western portion of SoHo known as Hudson Square, the site where an abandoned warehouse once stood is now well along toward becoming […]

Construction of a 27-story glass and concrete building has begun at the northeast corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue -- on a lot vacant for more than a decade […]

AS home prices have floated upward in the last decade, the dollar threshold for what are called jumbo mortgages has also risen, from $133,250 in 1986 to $333,700 this year. […]

The Duane Library, built in 1928 on the campus of Fordham University in the Bronx, is undergoing a $12 million renovation and is scheduled to open in mid-May, almost two […]

Construction is under way on a 12-story building on West 90th Street that will house both the Stephen Gaynor School, which teaches children with learning disabilities, and dance studios for […]

'NOBODY trusts contractors,' said Jim Quinn -- a contractor himself -- the co-owner of Thomas Murphy Associates in Port Washington, N.Y., which has been in business 15 years, 'and the […]

The first building to win Landmarks Preservation Commission approval since the establishment of the Gansevoort Market Historic District last September has been designed, in the words of its architect, Morris […]

At 55 West 13th Street, a 90,000-square-foot building constructed in 1891 has variously housed manufacturing activities, a warehouse and a Bon Marche department store. Largely abandoned in the 1970's, it […]

Spurred in part by the prospect of zoning changes that would allow construction of taller residential buildings, the price of empty lots in Harlem has almost doubled in the last […]

The newest rental building on the Avenue of the Americas in Chelsea is scheduled for completion by the end of the year, a 38-floor tower that will be the fifth […]

For years after it was built in 1890, the building with a prominent tower at West 135th Street and Convent Avenue in Harlem was used to distribute water from the […]

The Center for Jewish History is reaching upward for storage space for its growing archive of documents, adding six floors to double the size of one of the four buildings […]

JESSICA BACAL, a lawyer in Katonah, N.Y., represented a buyer last week who was closing on a $1 million-plus house with a $765,000 mortgage in Westchester County. In reality, though, […]

A sprawling new $12 million train maintenance building scheduled to begin operating next year in Hoboken is unusual both for its function and for a design that emphasizes the independent […]

THE first regularly scheduled cruise ship to call at the Port of Key West arrived in 1969. But not until 1984, when the city upgraded its dilapidated dock at Mallory […]

A gleaming white Class A office complex is nearing completion just off the Hutchinson River Parkway in the Pelham Bay section of the Bronx, part of it built on the […]

Borders Books & Music, which lost its downtown store in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, has returned to the area with a new store in […]

Construction is under way on 150th Street between Tinton and Union Avenues in the South Bronx on 13 single-family three-bedroom row houses sponsored by Habitat for Humanity. The houses will […]

A U-shaped condominium that will enclose landscaped gardens and offer three styles of apartments is nearing completion on a West Village block. The building's tallest components, 14-story towers, face West […]

'HOME improvement,' according to a research report issued in February by Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies, 'has become the great national pastime.' The report said that in 2001, the […]

A handful of cruise ships have canceled or rerouted Asian cruises because of concerns about severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. The Crystal Harmony, for example, canceled its Asian program […]

A former parking lot in SoHo is on the way to becoming a nine-story residential building, to be completed next spring. The building, at 25 West Houston Street, will have […]

In August and September of last year, the Empire State Building saved a total of $48,000 in air-conditioning costs by switching between steam and electricity to supply chilled water throughout […]

APPLICATIONS for mortgage refinancings have continued at record levels in recent weeks, buoyed by the attraction of low interest rates that have brought homeowners back to the table to arrange […]

In East Harlem at the corner of 126th Street and Park Avenue, the transformation of a white three-story building is nearing completion. Already, the building stands out, both because its […]

Occupants of the nine-story condominium rising atop an existing building at 47 East 91st Street, at Madison Avenue, will not have to go far to find an ATM machine or […]

The Community Preservation Corporation in Manhattan has provided financing throughout New York and New Jersey for adding and preserving 93,000 affordable housing units over almost three decades. But last summer […]

Mortgages that conform with Islamic religious law, which forbids payment or receipt of interest, have been difficult to obtain in the New York area until recently. That is changing, as […]

AS home values have soared in recent years and interest rates have fallen to their lowest levels in decades, record numbers of homeowners have refinanced their mortgages. While homeowners refinance […]

UNTIL about three years ago, all 25 floors of the 750,000-square-foot building at 520 Eighth Avenue, between West 36th and 37th Streets in the garment district, were filled with manufacturers, […]

Construction of a seven-story, 110,000-square-foot glass and steel office building is to begin next March on the blockfront on the north side of Houston Street between Crosby Street and Broadway […]

MORTGAGE rates in the last couple of years have been consistently low, with costs of 30-year fixed-rate loans in recent weeks down to their lowest point in more than 30 […]

A 77-unit apartment building now rising in Harlem is on a different schedule than its developers had originally expected, and it is a co-op rather than the rental they had […]