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future River Crest logo , and the space where the bar will open next year." /> The future River Crest logo , and the space where the bar will open next year. View Full Caption Logo Courtesy River Crest (inset); DNAinfo/Jeanmarie Evelly ASTORIA — A pair of Lower East Side bar owners plan to open a craft beer spot named for a former sanitarium in a  Ditmars Boulevard storefront that's sat empty for the past six years. River Crest, named after a mental health facility that operated in the neighborhood decades ago , will open around February at 33-15 Ditmars Blvd., a large storefront formerly occupied by the  produce market Top Tomato . Co- owners Martin Whelan and Gerard Leary — who also own the Lower East Side bar One Mile House — say the new venture will specialize in quality and harder-to- find craft brews .  "It'll be very high- end craft beer that we’ll be pouring there," said Leary, who lives in Sunnyside. "It's not going to be break-your...

In today's overheated real estate market , small apartments dominate , particularly in new developments targeting young professionals . But New Yorkers still have families, and across the board we share a rarely satisfied hunger for space. In keeping with that theme, here are 10 three-bedrooms in Manhattan, Brooklyn (and on Roosevelt Island , which is technically part of Manhattan) for less than $1.5 million. MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS : A three-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath co-op with 10-foot ceilings, oak floors, new windows, an open kitchen and a Juliet balcony in a prewar elevator building. The building at 54 Morningside Dr., between West 115th and West 116th streets , has a live-in super, a laundry room, storage and a bike room. $1.425 million, plus $1,924 a month maintenance ROOSEVELT ISLAND : A three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath duplex with wide- plank oak floors , stainless steel kitchen appliances , new insulated sliding windows and crown moldings throughout. The apartment is in...

Space is a precious commodity in New York City, particularly for the parents of young children, and as families grow it can be a major hurdle to find (and afford) the room to accommodate them. Samantha (whose name we've changed to protect her privacy) and her husband, the parents of a four-year-old and a one-year-old, currently own a two-bedroom, one-bath co-op on the Upper East Side , and are wondering whether it's time to move to a larger home.  "We are unsure about the prospect of our next move and whether it would be worth it to move to a rental or buy again, considering the increase in space we need," Samantha says. The couple would ideally like to find a three- bedroom apartment close to a park, in a building with a live-in super or doorman, though a two-bedroom with a separate dining room could work, too. Because of their children, they prefer a building with an elevator, or a first-floor apartment; transit-wise, they're looking for a commute to their job...

Characters in Madison West High School graduate Marc Webb ’s “The Only Living Boy in New York” complain at length that “New York has lost its soul.” They bemoan that Manhattan has lost its edge and become a playground for the super-rich, where rock clubs have been turned into spinning studios and mom-and-pop stores have become upscale boutiques. (Never mind that the characters are super-rich themselves.) But at least they still make New York movies like they used to. “Only Living Boy” is another literate, sharply observed tale of Manhattanites entangled in love, with each other and with their city. Although Allan Loeb’s screenplay contains some hard-to- swallow plot turns , a strong cast carries it past the eye rolls. Callum Turner plays Thomas Webb , a confident but aimless twentysomething who moves into an apartment on the Lower East Side to get as far away from his wealthy parents (Pierce Brosnan and Cynthia Nixon) on the Upper West Side . There he meets W.F. Ger...

NEW YORK, NY — It's one of the oldest rivalries in American migration: New York vs. Los Angeles. For the better part of a century, residents of the nation's two largest metro areas have been defending their chosen kingdom and dismissing the other on an endless loop of judginess between kitty-corner coasts. Ew, the traffic! But the sunshine! But the subway! But the garbage! But the skyline! But the coastline! But the bustle! But the chill! In this tireless war of words, a clear winner has yet to emerge. But it's harder to argue against the numbers. Thousands of working professionals have relocated to Los Angeles County from New York City in the past year and a half, according to a series of monthly "workforce reports" released this spring and summer by the job- networking site LinkedIn (and spotted by LA Weekly). And it's not exactly a two-way street. Since early 2016, according to LinkedIn, around seven or eight out of every 10, 000 site users in LA report...

A skyscraper that would be the tallest residential building in California has been proposed for downtown Los Angeles as the neighborhood’s housing boom rolls on. Crescent Heights , a Miami- based developer , submitted a proposal to the city Planning Department this week to build a 70- story apartment building that would stand out in size and design amid the rapidly growing South Park district east of Staples Center. The 810-foot building with 794 units would be the third-tallest in Los Angeles behind the recently opened Wilshire Grand hotel and office tower and the U.S. Bank Tower office building completed in 1989. Last year, Crescent Heights completed Ten Thousand , a 40- story luxury apartment complex on Santa Monica Boulevard on the edge of Century City. It also plans to build two residential high-rises next to the famed Hollywood Palladium on Sunset Boulevard. Its latest high-rise plan, for 1045 S. Olive St., calls for eye-catching cutouts two-thirds of the way up the bu...