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1) This week’s huntress, Dana, a musician/voiceover actress, bought (along with her boyfriend) two adjacent apartments in an Upper West Side building for a combined $1,435,500 in 2003. She didn’t count on the combined maintenance fees, however, which totaled $2,900, so last fall she put the 2,100-square-foot combo unit on the market, asking for $2.3 million. To everyone’s surprise but her own, the apartment sold for the ask, and Dana began looking for a new home that cost under one million. She first looked at a 1500-square-foot apartment in Harlem’s Fifth on the Park, asking $929,000. After making the obligatory visit to Brookyln, she settled on a slightly larger, slightly more expensive Fifth on the Park pad. Sometimes everything just works out. [The Hunt/'A Home Base for a Touring Musician']

2) New York has a lot of buildings that claim to be the tallest, or among the tallest, and with good reason—by 2016 we could have 6 of the 10 tallest buildings in the country. Vying for the title of tallest residential building, One57 will be 1,004 feet tall when it’s finished next year, but it’s set to be passed by 432 Park Avenue, which is scheduled to top out at 1,398 feet in 2016. By that time, 1214 Fifth, which bills itself as the Tallest in the Upper East Side, is going to be the 183rd tallest building in the City. Also, Donald Trump says something mean about Frank Gehry. [Big Deal/'How’s the Weather Down There?']

DoBro is really coming into its own >>

3) Downtown Brooklyn has—not for the first time—succeeded in changing its identity as it is now a much more sought-after residential destination than it was a decade ago. It’s now getting ever closer to catching up with Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights, and recently had its Borough Hall Skyscraper District approved. The nightlife is still lacking, though. [Living In/'To the Heights and the Slope, Add ‘Downtown’']

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It Happened One Weekend: Musician Pretty Savvy with Real Estate; Buildings Are Tall

Residents Plagued by UWS Mosquitoes Still Worry About Health Threat

Sat, 19 May 2012 15:31:59 +0000

West 84th Street between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive, the epicenter of the Upper West Side mosquito problem. (DNAinfo/Paul DeBenedetto)

MANHATTAN — Upper West Side residents waging a war against mosquito infestation got a bit of satisfaction Thursday, as they were finally able to confront the city about their concerns.

But on Friday, many neighbors said they still felt helpless, with no solution to the problem in sight.

The town hall meeting, which was hosted by Assemblywoman Linda B. Rosenthal, had been held to address the pest problem the community says has been plaguing them for three years.

“We didn’t get an answer from anybody,” resident Jennifer Hamilton, 42, said. “But we got our message out there loud and clear.”

The occasionally heated meeting, which took place at Goddard Riverside Community Center, was attended by representatives from the Department of Transportation, Department of Health, Department of Environmental Protection and Con Edison.

The agencies acknowledged that the number of mosquitos on the block was unusual, in a tape of the meeting that was obtained by DNAinfo.com New York, but didn’t have a clear answer on how the city would address it.

Residents who claim to be at the epicenter of the mosquito plague, on West 84th Street, expressed their frustration at the city’s lack of action on Friday.

“They are not effectively coordinating their response,” said Christopher Cross, 50. “Nobody wants a situation where someone gets badly ill because of a problem that’s known by the city agencies.”

At one point in the meeting, a representative from the Department of Health tried to explain that the mosquitos posed no major medical concern. Members of the audience began to talk over him.

“They would try to tell us there was nothing wrong,” said Aaron Naveh, 66. “People didn’t let them get away with that.”

Ultimately residents say they are glad that the city has promised to visit the street again, though no date has yet been set.

For now, the neighbors are left waiting for an answer.

“I’m hopeful that they’ll come out and take care of it before someone gets sick,” Jennifer Hamilton said.

By Paul DeBenedetto, DNAinfo.com

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Residents Plagued by UWS Mosquitoes Still Worry About Health Threat