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Hedge funder Heath Freeman buys East Hampton restaurant for $4M

Posted: 24 Dec 2021 12:57 PM PST

Hedge funder Heath Freeman scooped up a Hamptons stocking-stuffer just in time for Christmas. Freeman, managing director of New York-based Alden Global Capital, has closed on the Harbor Bistro in East Hampton for $4 million, he confirmed to The Real Deal on Friday. The 4.3 acre property at 313 Three Mile Harbor Road hit the market for $4.6 million in September. The waterfront restaurant sits adjacent to the East Hampton Point Resort, which a group

Owner faces criminal charges in fatal Midtown façade incident

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 03:15 PM PST

Two years after Erica Tishman was struck and killed by a piece of terra cotta that fell from 729 Seventh Avenue, the building’s owner faces criminal charges for allegedly ignoring its hazardous conditions. After learning of “deteriorating façade conditions that posed an immediate danger to the public,” the owner, an entity tied to Himmel + Meringoff Properties, failed to install a sidewalk shed and make repairs, the Department of Buildings said Thursday. On Dec. 17,

5 Lenox Hill homes that offer wall-to-wall luxury

Posted: 23 Dec 2021 02:30 PM PST

In one of the greatest works of American short fiction, an unnamed woman with an unnamed illness spends a summer confined to the upstairs room of a dreary mansion at the instruction of her husband, a doctor. After weeks of isolation, with nothing to look at or speak to other than the wall in front of her, she descends into madness. Sound familiar? They called it “female hysteria.” We call it cabin fever. Regardless of