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He Thought He Had Bought a Great Apartment. The Ceiling Held a Secret.
A home buyer quickly found out his co-op shared something in common with Carnegie Hall, Grand Central Station and the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine.
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Restoring a Chair Is Easier Than You Think. Ask the Brownstone Boys.
Jordan Slocum and Barry Bordelon have a lot of practice restoring brownstones in Brooklyn, so refinishing a chair was no big deal. Here’s how they did it.
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Two Floors of a Century-Old Mansion Are Listed on the Upper East Side
The longtime auctioneer David Redden and his wife, Jeanette, are selling their duplex penthouse at the Joseph Pulitzer House. The asking price is $6.975 million.
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$800,000 Homes in Glasgow, Scotland
A Victorian rowhouse in the Kelvinbridge district and two four-bedroom houses in the leafy suburb of Bearsden.
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A German Initiative to Keep Workers Employed by Retraining Them
When Emrullah Karaca began working at a factory in Gifhorn, Germany, where the auto parts supplier Continental builds components for hydraulic brakes, he was looking for a temporary job after finishing high school. But after spending more than two ...
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Why Your Chocolate Fix Is About to Get More Expensive
A failed crop, followed by a wave of financial speculation, put cocoa prices on a roller coaster this year, rattling an industry reliant on inexpensive crops and labor and ensuring that chocolate candy will become more expensive. This is not how ...
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Britain Shakes Off Recession as Economy Grows Faster Than Expected
The News The British economy emerged from a recession at the start of this year, growing faster than economists expected, data published on Friday showed. Gross domestic product increased 0.6 percent in the first quarter, the Office for National ...
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Another Sriracha Shortage May Be on the Horizon. What Happened?
Huy Fong Foods, the producer of the most popular variety of Sriracha sauce, has faced several supply glitches over the years.
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Bernard Pivot, Host of Influential French TV Show on Books, Dies at 89
For 15 years, French viewers watched Mr. Pivot on his weekly show, “Apostrophes,” to decide what to read next.
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Why Higher Fed Rates Are Not Totally Off the Table
Fed officials still think their next move will be to cut rates, but they are not entirely ruling out the possibility that they might have to raise them.