Rents in Brooklyn have skyrocketed to an average of $3,035 in July, up 8.2% from July of last year.
The average rent in Manhattan was $3,822 in July, up 1.7%.
Brooklyn luxury units — those priced in the top 10% of the market — led the surge, with the average rent in this segment hitting $6,007, up 8.8%.
On Tuesday, the online retailer announced the start of Amazon Art, where customers can buy original and limited-edition art from more than 150 dealers and 4,500 artists, ranging in price from a $10 screen print by the up-and-comer Ryan Humphrey to a $4.85 million painting by Norman Rockwell.
Amazon, which worked with Sotheby’s for a short-lived experiment selling art on the Web in 1999, will now vie with other, more established competitors in the online marketplace, including Artsy and Artnet.
A group of rap-star wannabes blew a $130,000 marketing loan on drugs, first-class airplane tickets and cross-country trips to entertainment festivals — where they weren’t even performing, a new Manhattan lawsuit claims.
While Bronx-based Da YoungFellaz, who have rhymed with Talib Kweli and Snoop Dogg, boast on their Web site that they “haven’t just sat around and waited for fame to land in their lap,” their legal adversaries tell a very different story.
StigmaSound, a Manhattan recording studio, says YoungFellaz Joseph Aguiar, Johnny Aguiar and Brett Officer blew through their first $25,000 loan, meant to rocket the group “toward A-level stardom in the entertainment industry,” in just three months by last October.
“The defendants used loan money . . . for illegal purchases of marijuana,” the Manhattan Supreme Court suit alleges. Read More
At age 17, Ronnie Fields was one of the top basketball prospects in the world, until a near fatal car crash changed his life forever. This is the story of one man’s journey to the edge of darkness, and how he emerged on the other side a legend.
Detroit — Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr announced Monday that he has contracted with Christie’s Appraisals, the New York-based international auction house, to appraise the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts. The city of Detroit is in $18 billion dollars worth of debt and Christies will have the appraisal completed by fall. Sources estimate the DIA holdings to be worth close to $2 billion.
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Preachers of L.A. gives a candid and revealing look at six boldly different and world renowned mega-pastors in Southern California, who are willing to share diverse aspects of their lives, from their work in the community and with their parishioners to the very large and sometimes provocative lives they lead away from the pulpit.