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Condos and Apartments at Manhattan's New MiMA Tower

Related Companies, the creator of Time Warner Center has announced a new condo and apartment tower in the middle of Manhattan. MiMA, a 63-story mixed-use glass tower features luxury rentals and condominium residences. Rentals are available on floors 7 to 50 and condo residences are offered on floors 51 to 63. The floor-to-ceiling glass windows offer stunning views of Manhattan in all its glory. Each apartment has stainless steel appliances, designer finishes and in-residence washer/dryer.

The building features modern glass exteriors by Arquitectonica, interiors by Rockwell Group, and Frank Gehry-designed theaters. It isn't just pretty, it's a little green, the building is set to exceed LEED Silver certification.

The key selling features is M Club, a mix of health, recreation and entertainment amenities for residents that means you might never have to leave the building to have a good time, get your work done, entertain, or even get your dog groomed. The 44,000-square-foot space has an 18,000 square foot private residents-only fitness center by Equinox with a heated indoor lap pool, boxing room, a full-size basketball and volleyball court, three outdoor terraces with private dining pods and barbecue facilities, party rooms and catering kitchens, outdoor and indoor screening rooms, and an Internet café and business center equipped with iMac computers and a coffee bar. There is also a club room and residents' lounge with a fireplace, game room with billiards and card tables and electronic gaming, and bicycle and resident storage. The urban dog care area, Dog City, is a professionally staffed pet spa with indoor and outdoor play areas offers grooming and training facilities, in-home feeding, walking services, scheduled play dates, and more.

Rentals start at $2,895 per month and studio residences will start at $695,000, one bedrooms at $950,000, and two bedrooms at $1.75 million.

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535 West End Avenue, Estate of the Day

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On the 16th floor of 535 West End Avenue in New York City you'll find this six-bedroom sprawler. The apartment is one of only two apartments in the building with private outdoor space. It has an approximately 1,800 square-foot wrap terrace that curves around the unit offering a real place to move around and get some air.

The over 6,600 square feet of interior space opens with a grand gallery off a private landing. The gallery leads to the oversized living room, formal dining room and the library. The kitchen has an adjacent den for dining or just hanging out.

The master bedroom suite has direct access to the terrace and is a private retreat with a sitting room, walk in closets and a pair of bathrooms with radiant heat in the floors. Across from the rear entrance, a staff room has river views and an en-suite bath. There is also a laundry room with a large side by side washer and dryer and soaking sink. The home has hardwood floors, large new windows, natural stone bathrooms and the latest appliances.

Building amenities include a garage, common courtyard, party room with catering kitchen, state of the art gym, recreation room, and a heated indoor swimming pool with mens' and womens' lockers rooms, each with steam room. This home is listed at $19.9 million by Lisa Lippman of Brown Harris Stevens.

Gallery: 535 West End Avenue

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Coco Rocha Drops The Price Of Her Gramercy Park Apartment

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

Young model Coca Rocha is looking to make a deal. The 22-year-old cover girl listed her two-bedroom apartment in New York's Gramercy Park-area back in August for $1.65 million. The unit on East 23rd Street is now listed at $1.59 million with Jared Seligman of Prudential Douglas Elliman. The NY Times reports that Rocha would like to sell so she and her husband, artist James Conran, can move to Brooklyn. They are looking for a loft in Williamsburg.

The corner apartment has two bathrooms and two outdoor spaces, a 464 square-foot planted terrace and a 67 square-foot balcony. A windowed kitchen with views onto the expansive terrace has stainless steel appliances The south/east exposures and oversized windows fill the kitchen and living room with light. The master bedroom has a large closet. Building amenities include a full-time doorman, concierge, residents' lounge with patio terrace, bike storage and a fitness center.

Gallery: Coco Rocha in Gramercy Park

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Carriage House Redux, Estate of the Day

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The listing says that this renovated carriage house on East 92nd Street in Manhattan is "a wow from the moment you enter" and I can see why. The 25-foot wide carriage house has had a gut renovation that took two years and created a very modern urban dwelling with the look of a sophisticated boutique hotel. The first floor has a great room with fireplace and a rear glass wall. Outside, the garden features an outdoor kitchen. The second floor living room has a fireplace and ceilings that soar over 18 feet. The third floor dining room has a terrace overlooking the garden. On the fourth floor you'll find three bedrooms and baths. The fifth floor is given over to a master suite with a fireplace, skylight, luxurious bath, huge dressing room, and a home office. The finished basement has a gym, bath, laundry room, and storage. A large commercial grade elevator and steel staircase help you navigate the home's many floors. It is listed at $19 million.

Gallery: Carriage House Redux

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Fashion's Night Out - A Smorgasbord of Events in NYC and Beyond

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Filed under: Events, Celebrity Shopping, Charity

Fashion's Night Out is coming right up -- it's this Friday, September 10. After its overwhelming success last year, this worldwide fashion fete is even bigger and brighter, and taking place in over 100 cities in America alone. This event does so much more than celebrate fashion. It helped to ease the stress the industry felt during the economic crisis and also benefits the New York City AIDS Fund with the sale of t-shirts and other FNO swag. Models, celebrities, industry-greats and die-hard fashionistas will all be coming together this Friday night to sip free champagne and cocktails, shop till late and dance their cares away -- all in the name of fashion.

For a full list of the events taking place around the world (and perhaps in your town?), visit fashionsnightout.com. As for us, we've had a host of enticing invitations cross our desk. Here is a roundup of some of the most extraordinary, open-to-the-public events you won't want to miss this Friday night:

Swarovski Style Event with Laura Lightbody
Madison Avenue and 58th Street
6:00 to 11:00 PM
RSVP: n/a

Head on up to Swarovski's Madison Avenue and 58th Street boutique where celebrity stylist Laura Lightbody will be on deck to reveal her super styling tips and share the inside scoop on this fall's most anticipated fashion trends. Shoppers will have a chance to sip champagne and enjoy decadent Vosges Haut-chocolat while the DJ keeps the party going, plus win Swarovski jewelry, snap up a free crystallized tattoo created exclusively for Fashion's Night Out and receive a crystallized lipstick case with any $100 purchase.

Piperlime Pop-Up Shop with Rachel Zoe and Project Runway
93 Mercer Street
6:00 to 11:00 PM
RSVP: n/a

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Industrial Design: Reconsidering Former-Factory Chic

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Filed under: Books, Real Estate Developments, By Design

We on Luxist love it when former industrial space is transformed into something luxuriously wonderful, whether it's a hat factory transformed into condos in Connecticut, a jam factory that became a super-cool hotel in Tasmania, or a textile mill that became a unique art and design center in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Recycling space that's just lying fallow makes good sense, but it's easy to forget that this gentrification is part of a larger economic story -- in fact, it's often the epilogue.

Check out The Atlantic Monthly's latest issue for a terrific article on Manhattan's urban landscape, Benjamin Schwarz's "Gentrification and its Discontents". It's mostly a consideration of two newer books, Twenty Minutes in Manhattan by architect Michael Sorkin, and Naked City, by urban sociologist Sharon Zukin, in the light of Jane Jacobs' classic book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities -- but my favorite part is when Schwarz points out that the late, great era of creative foment in lower Manhattan that these authors (and a great many others) lament now that it's been replaced by either hugely expensive housing or international brands, was a product of economic and industrial decline:

For instance, in railing against the passing of SoHo's exhilarating, creative days-characterized by "the mix of artists, crafts-people, small manufacturers, researchers [!], as well as of commerce oriented to their needs" (a few funky bars for the artists; places like the collectively run restaurant Food)-Sorkin joins in the lamentation for "the rapid decline of the city's industrial economy." He doesn't recognize that the SoHo he yearns for was precisely the product of that rapid industrial decline, which made economically available to artists and their hangers-on all those cool industrial spaces that in more industrially vibrant times would have been used by, well, industry.

He also points out that those former days of industrial productivity, now steeped in sepia nostalgia, weren't exactly halcyon. (Triangle Factory fire, anyone?) For example, The Henry Jones Art Hotel's pleasant atrium, pictured above, was a former jam factory floor. The original ceiling, though, was the height of that lower cross-beam -- in its original incarnation, it was hardly the light and pleasant space it is today.

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The Rockefellers on East 94 Street, Estate of the Day

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Every wonder how today's Rockefellers live? Today's townhouse listing on the Upper East Side of Manhattan gives us a chance to sneak a peek. The Real Estalker led us to the Sotheby's Realty listing for what is said to be the home of Mark and Renee Rockefeller. Mark is the youngest son of the late Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, who was the 49th Governor of New York and the 41st U.S. Vice President (under President Gerald Ford).

The listing the Real Estalker Mama refers to as a "kooky crib" certainly boosts some of the most lavishly interesting decor we've seen in a while. Say farewell to money-doesn't-shout beige, this is a home that has been designed with some very attention getting decor.

The 25-foot-wide townhouse is 6,420 square feet. It has five floors plus a full basement with a wine vault, laundry room and exercise room. The four-bedroom home has one of the most amazing libraries I have ever seen, especially if you are a connoisseur of dead things. It has gleaming lacquered walls with animal skulls in front of a black and white marble fireplace surround and exotic animal heads and fur pillows atop tufted couches. The home makes bold use of wallpaper prints, notice-me-now furniture and dramatic light fixtures. As the Real Estalker aptly puts it, "this is not your blue-blooded grandma's townhouse." It appears to be the sort of house one either adores or abhors. Public records show that "Maren Properties" (which is likely an abbreviation of Mark "Mar" and Renee "Ren") of 30 Rockefeller Plaza paid $10.8 million for the home in June 2005. The home was on the market in 2008 for $18.5 million but can now be had for $15.5 million.

Gallery: The Rockefellers on East 94th Street

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Zac Posen's New Housing Venture 16W21

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Filed under: Apparel, Real Estate Developments

It's a busy spring for fashion designer Zac Posen. Following up his Fall 2010 show, which was inspired by 1940s futurism, Posen brings his styles to the masses with his first ever Target fusion line with looks spanning from New York punk to old Hollywood glamor. And now, Posen extends his brand into the New York City housing market, completing the entire interior of a new luxury boutique residence in Flatiron, 16w21, which opens next month. The green condominiums set a new standard for design, integrating a studious level of attention to every detail of the building, highlighting the way that where we live influences how we live.

A stunning new ad campaign, "The Model Apartment," tells the story of one resident bachelor, a model man inside his model apartment, photographed and filmed inside a built-to-scale replica of the building itself. Click below to see a gallery of the ads, and view the videos here. The voyeuristic assemblage, following the model man through his bedroom, living room and kitchen, dives deep into the beautiful interiors, and sets the stage for a continuous story of how gorgeous design defines our lifestyles.

Gallery: 16W21

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Remaining Madoff Homes Already Discounted

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Bernie Madoff's last home may have sold strong, but it looks like the momentum is fading. His home in the Hamptons beat the listing price and ultimately moved for more than $9.4 million. Unfortunately for his victims, interest in his Manhattan penthouse and Palm Beach estate isn't as strong. The prices for both have been cut, as the Ponzi schemer moves from news to history. Both homes have been on the market for only two months.

The Manhattan home, on the Upper East Side, offers 4,000 square feet which the broker, Sotheby's International Realty, says is "perched atop a distinguished white-glove prewar cooperative." Originally offered at $9.9 million, the asking price has been slashed by $1 million. So, if you're looking for some new digs in the city, this should be perched atop your list. A 10 percent price drop after only two months in the game means that you could probably work the price down a little bit further. If you were a Madoff investor, think of it as recouping some of what was so wrongly taken from you.

The situation in Palm Beach, Florida isn't much better. The discount is only 7 percent, with the price plunging from $8.49 million to $7.9 million according to the Corcoran Group, which is handling the sale. This home is billed as "a return to classic Florida island living ... when Palm Beach was a less manicured tropical paradise." What does that mean? Does classical Florida island living have anything to do with defrauding the neighbors?

Madoff, now a resident of Butner, North Carolina, believed that the Manhattan apartment was worth only $7 million. He pegged the Palm Beach residence at $11 million.

When both properties move, the proceeds will go to Madoff's victims. Of the $65 million, roughly, that he took, $1.4 billion is said to have been recovered. Even when compared to the investor losses identified, $21.2 billion, it's but a drop in the bucket. The auction scheduled for Saturday may help a little bit, with Bernie's Mets jacket and Ruth's golf clubs going under the gavel.

Gallery: Bernie Madoff In New York City

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Leibovitz Picks up 30 Days (and Another Lawsuit)

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Filed under: Art

In the ongoing legal struggle between celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz and the art community's financial institution, Art Capital Group, the judge has decided to extend the clock. Though the photographer's payment is still due on September 8, 2009 (Tuesday), the next hearing with New York State Supreme Court Justice Bernard Fried won't occur until October 2. The experts, according to Bloomberg News, are chiming in that Art Capital Group is unlikely to declare Leibovitz in default, as that could push her into bankruptcy, which could cost the lender some cash and control over its own financial fate. Her real estate is estimated to be worth close to $40 million, and Art Capital Group puts the worth of her photo archive at above $50 million ... a bit higher now, thanks to the recent LeBron James shoot for Vanity Fair.

As if a lawsuit in state court weren't enough, Leibovitz may find herself in front of a federal judge, soon. Italian photographer Paolo Pizzetti filed the complaint, alleging that Leibovitz had hired him to take site-scouting photos and then used his product – without permission – in a LavAzza calendar, passing the photos off as her own. Specific sites shot include the Trevi Fountain in Rome and Plaza San Marco in Venice. The calendar was released last October. Pizzetti is looking for $150,000 per infringement and other unspecified damages. The Leibovitz camp has no comment yet, as it hasn't reviewed Pizzetti's filings.

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CitySpire Duplex, Estate of the Day

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Today's Manhattan's apartment is for those who really value outdoor space. The apartment is in New York City's tallest mixed-use skyscraper, CitySpire Center, located at 150 West 56 Street between 6th & 7th Avenues. This 65th floor duplex has a huge 1,800 square foot terrace. The apartment has five bedrooms. Building amenities include a doorman, concierge and a health club with swimming pool. The apartment itself is charming enough although the floorplan is a bit challenging. The apartment is basically horseshoe-shaped with no hallways so that the upstairs bedrooms don't have a lot of privacy but if you need space you can always head outside. The apartment is listed at $13 million. After the jump, this might just be the best terrace in the city.

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