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Rangers’ star Jacob Trouba nets Tribeca condo for $6.7M

Posted: 22 Jan 2022 12:13 PM PST

He shoots, he scores! New York Ranger defenseman Jacob Trouba has shelled out $6.7 million for a Tribeca condo, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. The Michigan native will be moving into a building with a history of hosting celebrities, including “Don’t Look Up” star Jennifer Lawrence, SNL alum (and Austin Powers himself) Mike Myers and multi-talented musician and actor Justin Timberlake, who sold his penthouse in the building for $29 million earlier this month,

John Legend and Chrissy Teigen selling penthouse apartments in Nolita

Posted: 22 Jan 2022 11:15 AM PST

Legend has it they’re going to sell. Celebrity super-couple John Legend and Chrissy Teigen are looking to sell two apartments they own in Nolita, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. According to the newspaper, the “All of Me” crooner and his cookbook-author wife are looking for $18 million for the two penthouse apartments in the Brewster Carriage House, a 19th-century built landmark. The two contiguous apartments were purchased by the couple in 2018 and 2020

Floating real estate: Colin Jost, Pete Davidson buy Staten Island Ferry boat

Posted: 22 Jan 2022 10:30 AM PST

They’re on a boat. “Saturday Night Live” regulars Colin Jost and Pete Davidson — arguably the two most-famous Staten Island-bred comedians ever — have purchased a decommissioned ferry boat that for years floated them to and from Manhattan. The more than half-century-old John F. Kennedy, which plied the waters between South Ferry and St. George since 1965, was purchased by the duo — along with comedy club owner Paul Italia — for around $280,000 at

Suburban Chicago horse farm could be put to pasture

Posted: 22 Jan 2022 10:00 AM PST

The owners of a 35-acre horse farm in suburban Wheaton, the town’s largest private estate, have a simple answer for a group that wants to buy and preserve the land: Neigh. The DuPage County Forest Preserve District this week voted to negotiate with the farm’s long-time owners, the Bolger family, the Chicago Tribune reported. They’ve tried to buy the Gladstone Ridge farm twice before, in 1988 and 1998. Each time, then-owners Vincent Bolger and Helen

Atlanta’s wealthiest – and whitest – neighborhood continues effort to secede

Posted: 22 Jan 2022 09:00 AM PST

The City of Buckhead? Residents of Atlanta’s wealthiest and whitest neighborhood are doubling down on efforts to secede from the city and create an independent police force, alarming local officials who worry about population loss and reduced tax revenue, according to the Wall Street Journal. Critics say a split would divide the region along economic and racial lines and perhaps politically as well. The Republican-led state legislature is taking up legislation for a referendum on

Vicky Ward breaks down New York State’s Trump investigation

Posted: 22 Jan 2022 08:24 AM PST

If you don’t have time to read through state Attorney General Letitia James’ recent filing to the Supreme Court of New York State on her investigation into former President Donald J. Trump’s real estate practices (and alleged shenanigans), you’re in luck: journalist Vicky Ward has broken all down for you. In her latest Substack post, the “The Liar’s Ball” author questions whether or not Trump crossed the line when he allegedly exaggerated claims about the

Cincinnati agency buys 200 rental homes, elbowing out investors

Posted: 22 Jan 2022 08:00 AM PST

A Cincinnati agency can now add landlord to its title. The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority agreed last month to pay $14.5 million for 195 houses throughout Cincinnati and surrounding Hamilton County, aiming to thwart investors and keep renters in their homes, according to the Wall Street Journal. It aims to fix them up and sell them to low- and middle-class tenants. The agency outbid more than a dozen investment firms to pick up

Lloyd’s of London may exit “Inside Out” home after three decades

Posted: 22 Jan 2022 07:00 AM PST

Lloyd’s of London, the 300-year-old insurer that takes on complex risks from ships to oil rigs and the legs of soccer players, is pondering whether to bail out of its famed London headquarters now that flexible working seems here to stay. The world’s largest commercial insurance firm said it could move out of its “inside-out” building home of 36 years, according to the Daily Mail. “As we adapt to new structures and flexible ways of