The sidewalks surrounding Central Park were designed to help you escape. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the landscape architects behind the landmark, proposed in their 1858 planning document to plant a plush line...

Manhattan | 100 Claremont Avenue, No. 10C Morningside Heights Condo $1.195 million A one-bedroom, one-bath, 810-square-foot apartment with an open floor plan, a breakfast bar, a large marble bathroom with a double vanity, a...

As if it weren’t difficult enough to find a home to buy these days, a new study reveals that more than a third of all American homeowners plan to stay in their current homes...

Shattering the glass ceiling isn’t always a goal — not if you’re a certain beloved lemon tree growing in a Victorian-era greenhouse. The tree in question, a Ponderosa lemon planted almost 125 years ago...

Grand Gorge, N.Y. | $550,000 A 2021 A-frame cabin with three bedrooms and three bathrooms, on a 1.8-acre lot This house is five minutes from Prattsville, a Greene County town with a diner, a...

This article is part of our Design special section about innovative surfaces in architecture, interiors and products. Lucía Cano and José Selgas are architects who have no fear of color. Founders of the studio...

The cedar-shingled house that Andre Dubus III built for his family in the seaside town of Newbury, Mass., has four levels that sprawl across 6,000 square feet, with plenty of rooms that could have...

Other designers have disguised doors to home bars. Tammy Connor, an interior designer, and D. Stanley Dixon, an architect, added a tiny bar to the library of a 1930s home in Atlanta, tucking it...

Glendale | $1.195 Million A 1952 house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a 0.1-acre lot This recently updated house is on a sloping street in the Woodbury neighborhood, about a five-minute drive...

In an ever-changing Downtown Brooklyn, high-rise apartment buildings nearing completion are a familiar sight. But there’s something a bit different about the one at 505 State Street. This 44-story, 440-unit rental building is to...

Q: I am on the board of a small co-op in Manhattan. One of our residents is very private, and possibly a hoarder. He refuses to allow anyone to enter his apartment, even the...

Nunhead Green | £795,000 ($1.01 million) A semi-attached, renovated two-bedroom, one-bath Victorian cottage with a contemporary interior and front and rear gardens. This updated house, with a traditional Victorian exterior and contemporary interior, is...

Dividing the marital home in divorce can be a financially and emotionally fraught experience....