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What We Know About the Sexual-Assault Lawsuits Against Oren and Tal Alexander

 Both Official founders Tal and Oren Alexander, along with Oren’s twin brother, have been accused of rape in three lawsuits. By Kim Velsey
  1. Broker Tal Alexander Is Accused of Rape in New Lawsuit The suit alleges that Tal, a co-founder of Official, assaulted a woman along with his brothers Oren and Alon.
    By Kim Velsey
  2. Your Rent Is Going Up The Rent Guidelines Board voted last night to approve increases on one- and two-year leases.
    By Clio Chang
  3. A Riverdale Two-Bedroom With a Pool and a View for $437,000 As the heat dome sets in, we found you places to cool off.
    By Clio Chang
  4. Is a $199,000 Penthouse on East 84th a Bargain or a Bad Idea? A what-if right off Park Avenue.
    By Kim Velsey
  5. Your New Life in a Connecticut Colonial Or a charming, cheapish shack in Riverhead that is probably a gut job.
    By Clio Chang
  6. The Listings Have Dogs Now Goldendoodles seem to be the new round mirror for apartment stagers.
    By Clio Chang
  7. This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings A rental in a building where rentals rarely come up, a cheap three-bedroom with a renovated kitchen, and a basically perfect place in Park Slope.
    By Nora DeLigter
  8. Brokers Are Ready to Fight for Their Fees An army of Douglas Elliman and Corcoran agents turned out to oppose Chi Ossé’s broker-fee reforms: “We don’t just open doors.”
    By Clio Chang
  9. Who Wants 281 Park Without Fotografiska? Aby Rosen’s $140 million sticker price has gone from steep to “asinine,” brokers say.
    By Kim Velsey
  10. A One-Bedroom in Villa Charlotte Brontë for $649,000 And a Chelsea studio so nice you won’t mind having a bed in your living room.
    By Clio Chang
  11. StreetEasy Is a Mirage How New Yorkers are actually finding their apartments right now.
    By Clio Chang
  12. Should Landlords Cover Broker Fees? Talking to a broker who thinks Chi Ossé’s new bill will be better for everyone involved.
    By Clio Chang
  13. A Two-Bedroom With a Jacuzzi Near Riverside Park And more actually roomy apartments for under a million in Chelsea, Ditmas Park, and Forest Hills.
    By Kim Velsey
  14. The Branded Towers of Miami No one will even build a luxury building in the city without a name brand attached to it.
    By Kim Velsey
  15. An 1882 Wood-Frame House in Washington Heights Owners Hoagy Bix Carmichael and Charmaine Lord did not want “modern blah blah,” he says.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  16. The Wildair Owners Are Taking Over an Upstate Hamlet This weekend, they’ll open their fourth business in Hensonville, whose population is less than 500 people.
    By Annie Armstrong
  17. A Startlingly Well-Priced Fieldston One-Bedroom And a picturesque little studio on Jane Street for $450,000.
    By Curbed Staff
  18. Sonja Morgan Is Ready for Greenwich Chatting with the Real Housewife as she packs up her Upper East Side townhouse for auction.
    By Bridget Read
  19. Pine Floors and a Porch to Lounge On in Greenport This is a vacation-themed edition.
    By Curbed Staff
  20. A Carnegie Hill One-Bed With Built-Ins Galore And statement windows in Morningside Heights.
    By Curbed Staff
  21. Martha Stewart and Her Daughter Bought at the Belnord And she’s already shopping at Zabar’s.
    By Clio Chang
  22. A Beachy House in Broad Channel for $449,000 Plus a dramatic Murray Hill studio and 2.5 bedroom in Sunnyside.
    By Kim Velsey
  23. What Ever Happened to the Three-Bedroom? How everything became either a chopped-up two-bed or $11,000 a month.
    By Kim Velsey
  24. New York’s Panic-Room Boom From installing electrified doorknobs to ballistics-grade walk-in closets, the city’s ultrarich are feeling ultra-paranoid.
    By Bridget Read
  25. A Workable Jackson Heights One-Bedroom for $430,000 And a Prospect Heights two-bedroom just five minutes from the park.
    By Kim Velsey
  26. Emily Weiss Bought Two Townhouses in 5 Months The Glossier co-founder has spent a combined $40 million since last November.
    By Clio Chang
  27. There’s an Under-$2 Million Breuer House for Sale The owners of the Croton-on-Hudson three-bedroom won’t consider “anyone who’s remotely thinking about tearing it down.”
    By Adriane Quinlan
  28. Annie Leibovitz Is Giving Up Her California Farm Dream The 65-acre property is one of several she’s put up for sale in recent years.
    By Clio Chang
  29. East Hampton Braces for Zero Bond Scott Sartiano wants to expand out East. The village is losing its mind.
    By Stephanie Krikorian
  30. The $10,000-a-Month ‘Wellness Social Club’ on Greenwich Street Using AI and a little bit of your blood, Continuum Club promises a “journey to becoming the ideal version of oneself.”
    By Clio Chang
  31. Mica Ertegun’s East 81st Townhouse Hits Market The interior designer and original kilim influencer’s Manhattan home was her greatest calling card.
    By Kim Velsey
  32. A Dome Home in Montauk Is for Sale “It would be a shame to tear it down. You can’t find another house like it.”
    By Kim Velsey
  33. A Murray Hill Two-Bed With a Wood-Burning Fireplace And a three-bedroom that’s a short walk to St. John the Divine.
    By Kim Velsey
  34. Eva Alt Is Selling Downtown The dancer turned broker has managed the impossible: making it cool to be a real-estate agent.
    By Bridget Read
  35. Your Very Own Masonic Temple in Hillsdale And a perfectly renovated Victorian near Hudson.
    By Curbed Staff
  36. Welcome to Williamsburg’s Wellness Corridor Heading north on Wythe, a person could go from red-light therapy to a Juvaderm touch-up to a cold plunge without even calling an Uber.
    By Kim Velsey
  37. What Does This Big Settlement About Broker Commissions Mean for New York? Is it cheaper to buy a house yet?
    By Kim Velsey
  38. The Clintons and Carl Bernstein Schmoozed Here Publisher Stephen Rubin’s living room has 17-foot-high ceilings and a lot of built-in shelves.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  39. Brooklyn Tower Is in Trouble “It’s one thing to pay a premium to be 1,000 feet above Central Park. But 1,000 feet above Trader Joe’s?”
    By Kim Velsey
  40. An Alcove Studio With a Very Greenwich Village View for $585,000 Plus a Tudor house in Kingsbridge and a Beekman Terrace studio with a lovely picture window.
    By Kim Velsey
  41. Is It Squatter Season in New York? How a handful of alarming stories turned into a full-blown panic.
    By Bridget Read
  42. E.B. White’s Childhood Home Is for Sale The six-bedroom Mount Vernon mansion has recently been renovated.
    By Clio Chang
  43. Why on Earth Is Adam Neumann Trying to Buy Back WeWork? “I think the person who would be most frustrated if Adam Neumann bought WeWork would be Adam Neumann.”
    By Kim Velsey
  44. What Real Estate Does Trump Own in NYC Anyway? Letitia James says she will seize Trump’s properties if he doesn’t pay his civil fraud penalty. The problem is, he doesn’t own that many.
    By Wilfred Chan
  45. What Happens After Your Landlord Is Arrested? As Daniel Ohebshalom begins a 60-day sentence at Rikers, his tenants are about to find out.
    By Clio Chang
  46. It’s Hard to Imagine Who’d Want to Buy Trump’s Seized Properties Between the threat of lawsuits and the taint of Trump’s brand, his real estate seems like it’ll be more trouble than it’s worth.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  47. A House on Oak Island Is for Sale For $500,000, a chance to live in oceanfront isolation less than an hour away from Manhattan.
    By Clio Chang
  48. A Sneaky Two-Bedroom in Hudson Heights for $725,000 Plus an opulent one-bedroom in Queens and a midtown studio with statement windows.
    By Kim Velsey
  49. The Disastrous ‘Great Israeli Real Estate Event’ A tour meant to sell homes in Israel and the West Bank to Americans has not gone as smoothly as planned.
    By Nevin Kallepalli
  50. Just a Very Good House in Accord for $595,000 Plus windows galore and views of the hills in Sullivan County.
    By Curbed Staff
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