Brooklyn’s Working-Class Bastion Bay Ridge Gets a New Luxury Development

A working-class Brooklyn neighborhood known for its sweeping views of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge—and its many "Saturday Night Fever" filming locations—is getting a luxury makeover. Shore Road, with its dazzling bridge, New York Harbor, and downtown Manhattan skyline views, is lined with decades-ol

Julia Child’s Historic Cambridge Home Near Harvard Square Lists for $6.5 Million

A historic home in Cambridge, MA, boasting an impressive culinary pedigree has just hit the market near Harvard Square for $6,475,000. The former home of legendary chef Julia Child is where the cookbook author and TV host of "The French Chef" lived with her husband, Paul, for 40 years. "The home is

A Frank Gehry Protégé Transformed 20 Blank Acres in Marin—Now it’s On the Market for $4.4 Million

Two decades ago, the architect Jeremy Kotas, a Frank Gehry protege, was given something few architects get: a clean slate in the form of a 20-acre parcel in Marin.  The resulting home, at 200 Mountain King Road in Lagunitas, California, is now being sold for $4.4 million. "Properties with this combi

Lustron Homes Were Mass-Produced With Steel as a 1940s Housing Solution—Here’s Why Only 1,200 Still Stand Today

What if homes could be manufactured like cars? That’s the question inventor Carl Strandlund sought to answer in the 1940s to meet demand for suburban dwellings during the post-World War II housing crisis. Lustron homes, built between 1948 and 1950, were once dubbed “the house of the future.” Designe