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Interactive storm cloud lamp ominously lights up your living room

Livabl July 11, 2014

It also plays music. We suggest Riders on the Storm by The Doors.
283-285 Graham Avenue in Williamsburg on the market, asking $5 million

Joyce Chen and Livabl July 10, 2014

The two low-slung buildings have four retail spaces and three apartments total.
Want to sell your home fast online? Newly funded startup will let you do just that

Livabl July 8, 2014

OpenDoor says users will receive an instant offer online and close in three days.
This beautiful Spanish castle will star in Game of Thrones season five

Livabl July 5, 2014

The medieval castle will make an appearance alongside the cast during season five.
LES hello/goodbye: For 204 Forsyth, with love and rhino white marble

Joyce Chen and Livabl July 1, 2014

The 1927 tenement building, home to the Nativity Mission School, was torn down earlier this year.
Sales center tour: 50 West Street shows off its curves, views that won’t quit

Joyce Chen and Livabl June 30, 2014

Touring the 780-foot-tall condo tower designed by Helmut Jahn, with interiors by Thomas Juul-Hansen.
Construction shots: 119 Orchard Street in Lower East Side

Joyce Chen and Livabl June 30, 2014

The squat Fine & Klein Handbags tenement building at the site was demolished in 2010.
It’s alive! Mapping new residential construction across LES

Joyce Chen and Livabl June 27, 2014

Formerly a graveyard for development sites, the Lower East Side is undergoing a new construction revival.
Warehouse conversion alert at 426 Willoughby in Bed-Stuy

Joyce Chen and Livabl June 26, 2014

The one-story structure will get three additional floors on top, for a total of 10 apartments.
No, Mr. 31 Bond, I expect you to convert into condos

Joyce Chen and Livabl June 25, 2014

The century-old building is being transformed into three huge apartments.
New 42-unit project bound for 810 Flushing Avenue in Bushwick

Joyce Chen and Livabl June 25, 2014

The seven-story, 45,000-square-foot building will have attended parking.
Residential conversion for former Daytop building at 401 State Street in Boerum Hill

Joyce Chen and Livabl June 24, 2014

The seven-unit conversion will be designed by Williamsburg-based Loadingdock 5.
Construction revival: 265 East Houston in LES unfreezes itself

Joyce Chen and Livabl June 24, 2014

The site, which stalled for three years after foundation work cracked its next-door neighbor, is finally rising.
Praise the roof: New apartments proposed atop UWS church at 142 West 81st Street

Joyce Chen and Livabl June 23, 2014

The existing five-story church sits on a 62.5′ by 102′ lot.
The 10 tallest buildings in the world ever to be demolished

Livabl June 22, 2014

What goes up must come down.
Will these two futuristic skyscrapers become the tallest buildings in the world?

Livabl June 21, 2014

Since they’ve been proposed for a city in tall-building-crazy China, the answer is likely yes.