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WINDSOR TERRACE , BROOKLYN — This week's featured real estate listing is a luxury townhouse in Windsor Terrace with a host of features, including a basement suite and a dedicated gas line for your grill outside. Click here to see more photos of the home, and read the listing below. Address: 1662 10th Ave, New York City, New York Price: $2,750,000 Square Feet: 3150 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 3 Baths Built: 1915 Features: This stunning barrel- front Windsor Terrace townhouse features tons of details, a modern kitchen, large comfortable rooms , and an English basement apartment that can be used as a guest suite or rental apartment . The landscaped back yard features lovely plantings , a large grassy area plus two ipe wood decks and a dedicated gas line for your grill. The home is approximately 3150 square feet over three floors and has been tastefully restored with a clean, modern aesthetic while still retaining many period features . The parlor floor features an inviting ent...

Trollish men love to share memes of women with and without makeup, saying “This is why your first date should always be swimming.” The implication being that we, as women, are somehow duping them by wearing makeup. Our makeup is some sort of colorful, dick- tricking peacock plumage , which we wear exclusively to imitate conventional attractiveness for the sake of the opposite sex. And, once we douse ourselves in a healthy amount of water, our faces are supposedly “exposed.” I’m tempted to point out that any man who assumes a cat-eye is natural could probably also be sold on a great swamp land “investment,” but that’s really not the root of the problem. Guys (and the public in general) often believe that makeup is worn for their benefit. Because makeup is something we use to decorate our facade, it must be a means of procuring self-affirming compliments from other people — otherwise, what’s the point? Well, I’m glad you asked. 1. I enjoy the ritual. It’s difficult to deny that makeup ...

New wave architect and Pritzker Prize winner Jean Nouvel once said, “Each situation requires a new architecture.” In other words, architecture must be harmony with the spirit and specific character of a place. This is exactly what our county’s  Exceptional Design Awards honor : superior architecture that takes into account a project’s design in context of its relationship to its surroundings. Exceptional Design Winners The 2017 award winners , which were recently announced, feature nine buildings: A contemporary home Apartment building in the Mosaic District A private school Five offices The Reston District Police Station and Governmental Center Awards are granted in three categories: honor, merit and honorable mention, and a jury of design professionals , including architects, select the winners. Read Full Details of 2017 Award Winners Designs for Live, Work and Play Cache House This residential project in Reston started with a 1970s contemporary home , reworked to open up...

Copyright © 2013 Albuquerque Journal Construction is expected to begin in early October on the $ 23 million Broadstone Cottonwood , a 254- unit luxury apartment project on the hill between the Intel Corp. plant in Rio Rancho and Albuquerque’s Cottonwood area. A joint venture of Albuquerque’s Titan Development and Phoenix- based Alliance Residential , Broadstone Cottonwood will be built on 13.3 now-vacant acres on the west side of N.M. 528. It will consist of 24 mostly two- and three-story buildings with a total of 325,433 square feet of space, which includes rental garages . Designed in what could be called a California Mission style of architecture, the Cottonwood project will be a variation of another Titan-Alliance collaboration, the 280- unit Broadstone Santa Monica apartments at 6401 Santa Monica NE , east across Interstate 25 from the Journal Center . Advertisement Continue reading The Cottonwood and Santa Monica projects combined create work for about 700 workers in constr...

Copper Creek Cottages in Litchfield held an open house of their new facility, located at 1007 E. Columbian Street, on Saturday, July 1. The new facility features 30 apartments in two intimate settings of 15 to provide better care and attention of each of the residents. They offer one and two-bedroom apartments, both with private bathrooms. The state-of-the-art facility provides spaces to explore, gathering areas, activity space and a beautiful and secure outdoor courtyard . At Copper Creek Cottages , residents are welcomed by characteristic cottage-front apartments for "home" recognition, just one of the things that owners Brad and Maura Voyles are proudest of. The unique and bold color cottage -fronts are such a help to the residents. Another detail the Voyles are very proud of is the ability of staff to know when a resident gets up in the night or when someone has been in the bathroom for an extended period of time. Voyles has been in the business for 20 years, and has bu...

Finance & Accounting HKS Capital Partners  brokered a $ 66 million permanent financing on a Westchester apartment building – a 416 unit multi- family rental complex at Ridgeview Apartments at 32 Nob Hill Drive in Elmsford. The seven year loan from Cantor Commercial Real Estate will be securitized. Ayush Kapahi of HKS brokered the transaction. He said the loan’s rate was “in the fours” and features a three-year interest-only period. The ownership entity, Ridgeview Partners LLC , is led by Stephen Reitano , the former deputy executive director of the  Metropolitan Transportation Authority . AYUSH KAPAHI “The deal had many moving parts which required us to retain the  right firm and we did,” said Reitano ” The owners bought the building in 2010 for $58 million, assuming $50 million in debt,” said Kapahi. “With this mortgage they were able to take out equity. They took over management and did renovations and really hit a home run with the deal.”

On a Friday night in late June, the air along the Sava River pulsed with a panoply of music and competing bass beats . Belgrade’s city lights danced on the water like molten gold, with ripples from passing boats creating a trance-like effect. Across the way, the centuries-old Belgrade Fortress snaked along a hill, marking the Sava and Danube confluence. Anchored on the banks of Belgrade’s rivers, around 300 rafts (called  splavs  or  splavovi ) lined the waterways – a mix of restaurants, bars and clubs. The river is our seaside On the other side of the river from the trendy Beton Hala district , a cluster of floating nightclubs draws visitors from around the globe. The nightlife in Serbia’s capital has been touted as the best in the Balkans and these rafts make every night feel like a Friday. “The river is our seaside,” said long- time Belgrade resident Ilija Duni . He explained that locals, whether they are club-goers or not, come to the rivers to escape the summer heat. The day...

The Riveter: This one was my favorite. Steve Korn S eattle has the fourth-fastest- growing freelance economy in the country, which explains why there are almost as many coworking spaces opening up as luxury apartment buildings . Since I'll never be able to afford a luxury apartment , I thought maybe I can at least work at a place where the sink actually drains and the coffee is always fresh. So I checked out some coworking spaces and brought my laptop with me. I didn't tell them I was coming. I wanted to see what these places were like inside, without any PR hoopla. Clearly, we are living in the age of the remote worker. By 2020, 40 percent of the US workforce will be freelancers, temps, independent contractors, or "solopreneurs," according to a 2010 study by Intuit. According to the 2017 Global Coworking Survey , nearly 1. 2 million people worldwide will have tried coworking by the end of next year, and around 14, 000 coworking spaces will be in operation. Sixt...