The New York real-estate market is now the premier destination for wealthy foreigners with rubles, yuan, and dollars to hide.

The father-son development team that helped create the new Brooklyn has scant patience with the mayor from Park Slope.

Now’s the time to head to the far-west Catskills.

If you can’t stomach being outbid on yet another crummy railroad apartment, it might be time to consider heading farther afield.

In addition to the old standbys of lust-worthiness, the city is brimming with slightly less bold-faced but equally desirable buildings—that are just as impossible to penetrate.

Barack Obama's walk-up apartment, Ada Louise Huxtable's Park Avenue perch, and John Mayer's bachelor pad are all up for grabs.

The storied structures they once were.

Some New Yorkers whip up nightly five-course meals. Others use their ovens for storing off-season sweaters. So how much is a kitchen worth, anyway?

The joys, costs, and inevitable dead mice that come with having the ultimate urban perk.