Still catching up on news from while I was gone. MUW reader Alex sent in the link below to a recent Daily News article about The Windermere, a prewar luxury rental at 666 West End (corner of 92nd). It’s bound to send some readers into a tizzy, as it alludes to the influx of money [...]

The UWS and UES have long had political stigmas attached to them. If recent fundraising figured from the campaigns of President Obama and likely Republican challenger Mitt Romney are any indication, those stigmas still hold true — the UWS is blue and the UES is red.

The national real estate market may be struggling, but apparently high-end townhouses on the Upper West Side are doing just fine. The neighborhood is seeing an “unprecedented” rise in townhouses with asking prices over $10 million.

Most Yankees fans will tell you that Derek Jeter’s “flip” was the best in team history, but (former?) Upper West Sider Alex Rodriguez just made a pretty nice flip of his own. He recently sold his 35th floor condo at The Rushmore (80 Riverside Boulevard, at 64th) for a “significant profit.” A-Rod purchased the apartment [...]

This week’s “unattainable” apartment is a fantastic 4,200+ sf duplex at 1 Central Park West (the large, black-glass Trump International building at Columbus Circle). The apartment, located on the 49th & 50th floors and featuring panoramic city and river views, is the only duplex at 1 CPW.