A High-Ceilinged Sutton Place Duplex

In the 1980s, Carolyne Roehm's life was as close as anyone could come to one of the socialites in Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. Her second husband was Henry Kravis, a private-equity scion known for his leveraged buyout of Nabisco, and they lived in a $5.5 million Park Avenue apartment, furnished with Louis XV furniture and paintings by Renoir and Sargent. She had her own career, too; she had been an assistant, model, and muse to Oscar de la Renta, then left to found her own line.  

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Returning to the office for some Wall Streeters means moving back to NYC

Hybrid no more: Unpredictable in-person work schedules mean daily commutes from far-flung suburbs are unappealing. Is the end of hybrid work at Wall Street firms giving the New York City real estate market a boost? Financial firms that had flexible work-from-home policies are joining the return-to office trend and requiring more workers to be in the office as many as five days a week. For employees who moved to the suburbs because they could work hybrid schedules, having to be in the city more days appears to be fueling a small burst of real estate activity. Several brokers told Brick Underground they’re working with Wall Street workers on apartment searches because of updated RTO mandates. What they’re hearing: Long, often unpredictable in-person work schedules are tough on employees who need to conform to commuter train schedules.  

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Leo Jacobs Distressed Real Estate's Wartime General

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