Photo illustration of Taylor Spellman (Discovery+, iStock/Illustration by Alexis Manrodt for The Real Deal)
Taylor Spellman, a veteran of New York City’s interior design and home-staging game, is launching a new show on Discovery+.
The premise of the series, “One Week to Sell” is simple: Spellman’s interior design firm swoops into a sad home that’s languishing on the market and gets one week and a $10,000 budget to transform it into a must-buy.
The show debuts today with the release of the first three episodes. New ones come out weekly on Wednesdays.
The properties featured in the show are in New York’s tri-state area, where sales have soared since the pandemic began last year, as buyers sought bigger homes with outdoor space.
Firefighter hurt in apartment inferno sues building owner, alleges bad repairs sparked blaze
Updated Jan 30, 2021;
Posted Jan 30, 2021
Smoke erupted from a fifth-floor window as the Fire Department battled a blaze at 260 Park Hill Ave., Clifton, on Sept. 11, 2020. (Staten Island Advance/ Jan Somma-Hammel)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. A city firefighter suffered serious injuries about five months ago when trapped by a fast-moving electrical fire inside a Clifton apartment building.
In a recently-filed lawsuit, Firefighter Brian Gill alleges the blaze broke out when maintenance staff tried to restore power in an apartment.
Gill has sued Kimso Apartments LLC and Delshah Capital LLC, both of whom are identified in court papers as the owner and managing agent of the apartment building at 260 Park Hill Ave.
An aerial view of the four apartment buildings known as the Grand Putnam Portfolio (Google Maps)
Four bankrupt rent-stabilized apartment buildings in Clinton Hill could have a path to deregulation, thanks to an obscure exemption intended to repair run-down properties.
Rosenberg & Estis, the attorneys for the bankrupt properties, filed an adversary proceeding on Jan. 7, arguing that because the previous owner rehabilitated the buildings in 2002, 46 of their total 128 units should be deregulated.
A little-used “substantial rehabilitation” provision allows landlords to deregulate units even, at least theoretically, under the new rent law if a building is found to be dilapidated, and 75 percent of the building-wide systems are completely replaced.