I would like to spend some money on you! So, I’m bringing back my annual offer: dinner for you and a guest at the world-famous Le Bernardin for any referrals (buyers or sellers) that lead to a closed sale in 2025!

My team and I helped 84 clients buy or sell a home in NYC during 2024, and our goal is to assist 100 this year! I would love to help you, your friends, your family, or your colleagues with their real estate needs—and as a thank-you, send you and a guest to an incredible dining experience at Le Bernardin (or another restaurant of your choice)!

Need a vacation? Head to The Bronx for The Orchid Show: Mexican Modernism at New York Botanical Garden. The sprawling floral exhibition, with its vibrant colors, flowing waterfalls and thousands of orchids, makes for a transportive tropical escape.

Quite presciently, Barragán envisioned gardens of magical places for peace and contemplation—necessary for the well-being of busy urban dwellers. New York Botanical Garden brings his vision to life for New Yorkers, offering quiet, cozy corners for reflection throughout the show. 

Thousands of 16-foot-tall orange gates lined Central Park's pathways for 16 days in February 2005. The momentous public art installation known as "The Gates" was stunning in its size and simplicity. For many viewers, it celebrated the park, the city and the persistence of joy — despite the fact that the installation was on display in the depths of winter as New York continued to heal from the 9/11 attacks.

To mark the ephemeral exhibit's 20th anniversary, the Shed at Hudson Yards will host a retrospective on "The Gates" through March 23, with an accompanying digital recreation via augmented reality. Both are free.

The retrospective, which is titled “Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates and Unrealized Projects for New York City,” features scale models of the installation as well as materials. It also displays videos of the pair behind the installation — married couple Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon — fighting with community boards for permission to stage the exhibit. Additionally, there are photographs, drawings and a gallery of similarly ambitious, but unrealized proposals by Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

Meanwhile, “The Gates: An Augmented Reality Experience” enables Central Park visitors to better experience what the exhibition looked like 20 years ago. Various QR-code equipped kiosks throughout the park allow app users to scan and see "The Gates" through the lens of their phones. The exhibition and app are supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Michael Bloomberg’s charitable organization, in partnership with the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, the Shed, the Central Park Conservancy and the city's parks department. (Bloomberg was mayor in 2005 and worked to greenlight "The Gates.")

This exhibit — a repeat visitor in the NYC area — transfers visitors back to 1912. Though the immersive environment that recreates the ship’s rooms is certainly engaging and true-to-life, the real draw of the display is the collection of 130+ authentic artifacts that were recovered from the Titanic’s wreckage: champagne bottles, jewelry, chandeliers, and most notably, the ship’s logometer, which was used to track the distance traveled each day. Chillingly, it is still showing the reading from the night it sank.

“A seminal moment in world history, people continue to be amazed more than a century later by the story of the Titanic’s ill-fated journey to New York City,” said Paul Hoffman, president and CEO of Liberty Science Center. “Visitors can take in the majestic nature of the ship, learn the science behind why it sank, and discover exactly how the artifacts have been recovered and preserved for all this time.

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Despite the years that have passed since this historic tragedy, the interest in the story remains relevant. One of our go-to science museums hopes that visitors will take away the resilience from the people on the ship, as well as the cultures and livelihoods that the Titanic brought together.

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A Renovated Gem with Southern Light on the Upper West Side:

Welcome to Apartment 10A at 305 West 72nd Street, a perfectly renovated and incredibly sunny 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom residence in a stunning turn-of-the-century building near Riverside Drive.

Enter through a gracious foyer, where pristine inlaid wood floors and a double-arched breezeway immediately captivate. The expansive living room, flooded with natural light from oversized, south-facing windows, offers ample space for both relaxing and entertaining, including a dedicated dining area and flexible furniture layouts.

The chef’s kitchen is a dream come true, featuring custom maple cabinetry with frosted glass fronts, a striking stainless-steel tiled backsplash, Kashmir granite countertops, and premium appliances, including a Viking cooktop, oven, and hood, a Fisher & Paykel refrigerator, and a Bosch dishwasher.

The thoughtfully renovated guest bathroom, located off the main living area, exudes spa-like luxury with honed Travertine tiles, an oversized shower with a rain showerhead, and frameless glass doors.

A separate wing provides an ideal layout with split bedrooms. The south-facing primary suite enjoys protected views, abundant natural light, and a large custom-fitted closet. The en-suite bathroom boasts honed Travertine tile work, a deep soaking tub, and the finest fixtures and finishes. A washer/dryer is conveniently located in the primary suite.

The second bedroom, equally versatile, is perfect for guests, a home office, a media room, or a nursery.

Additional highlights include solid oak hardwood floors with intricate inlays, new double-glazed windows, custom window treatments throughout, stylish light fixtures, crown molding in every room (including the bathrooms), 9-foot ceilings, and discreet top-installed air conditioning units.

About 305 West 72nd Street:

Built in 1908, this Italian Renaissance palazzo-style building showcases a striking facade with Venetian accents and an elegant marble lobby. Residents enjoy a 24-hour doorman/elevator operator, a resident manager, bike storage, additional storage, and a central laundry room.

The building is pet-friendly and welcomes co-purchasing, guarantors, pieds-à-terre owners, and subletting with board approval.

Location Perfection:

Nestled in the heart of the Upper West Side, moments from Riverside Park, the Hudson River Esplanade and the 72nd street dog park, this home is surrounded by cultural institutions, acclaimed dining, gourmet markets including Trader Joe’s, Citarella, Fairway. Surrounded by all modes of transportation including the local and express trains, and crosstown, midtown and downtown buses making city living effortless.

This is urban sophistication at its finest—schedule your showing today!

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