This week’s dérive (an unplanned walk through an urban environment) takes place in a Manhattan neighborhood that holds Manhattan’s oldest surviving mansion, has a safer crime rate than Greenwich Village, is only 20 minutes from Times… More
Some neighborhoods in New York City are named after their geographic location (Upper East Side, for instance), others for historic reasons (Greenwich Village was once Groenwijck, or green district, in the time of New Amsterdam and… More
My previous blog posts about taking a dérive (an unplanned walk through an urban environment) have all happened to be located in Manhattan. However, it’s time to get off the island and explore one of the… More
In New York, we desperately need more lower income and middle income housing. Our new mayor suggests that we should solve this housing crisis through density and, all in all, I agree. Building bigger, taller buildings… More
I have been to a number of real estate events recently where the talk was all about whether co-op apartments should be converting to condominiums. (For those who don’t know, co-op ownership comes in the form… More
Whether your personal idea of the beginning of summer is Memorial Day weekend, the first of June, or the summer solstice, summer has truly arrived in New York City. While the sticky, sometimes sweltering days… More
In a recent blog post about taking a dérive (an unplanned walk through an urban environment) on Sutton Place, I mentioned that, because of the geography of Manhattan, there are occasionally Avenues east of First. I… More
On a beautiful early summer weekend afternoon, I decide to take a dérive (an unplanned walk through an urban environment) in Greenwich Village. Getting off the 4 at Union Square meant being immediately immersed in a… More
This past week-end, during my 40th college reunion, I spent several wonderful hours in the newly reconfigured Yale Art Gallery, where I spent a lot of time as an undergraduate. In addition to the extraordinary collection,… More
On the first day that New York City felt like spring, I was compelled to take a dérive (an unplanned walk through an urban environment) through Central Park, and I wrote about it earlier this year…. More
is Chief Executive Officer of Warburg Realty Partnership. A graduate of Yale College with a Masters Degree from CUNY, Frederick entered the real estate business as a residential agent in 1980. After working as a Sales Director at Albert B. Ashforth for a number of...