KARL FISCHER may not enjoy the name recognition of architects like Robert A. M. Stern and Richard Meier, whose designs have helped alter the face of New York in recent years.

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“After his chart-topping hit, ‘Ice Ice Baby,’ Rob turned his focus on a new hobby, buying land and flipping houses.”

This description of the rapper Vanilla Ice, who was born and remains Robert Van Winkle, comes to us from promotional materials

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With Manhattan’s rental-housing market tightening, the danger is growing of apartment hunters falling victim to scams, real-estate agents and white-collar crime experts warn.

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It’s hurry up and wait at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, the financially troubled apartment complexes on 80 acres overlooking the East River.

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For decades a dirty, decrepit and dangerous vacant lot in Bedford-Stuyvesant was an eyesore – until this summer, when neighbors converted it into a beautiful flower and vegetable garden.

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David Luchsinger, a National Park Service veteran, is used to living simply. He and his wife, Debbie, reside in an 876-square-foot bungalow that was built in the 1940s and lacks such amenities as a dishwasher—or even kitchen cabinets. Their front-entrance storm door is short and leaves a yawning gap at the bottom.

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Arthur Ave.’s not the only Italian neighborhood in the Bronx. Morris Park, which hosts its 43rd Columbus Day parade today, also boasts a proud Italian heritage. “This is the new Little Italy,” says Pasquale Franco at Patricia’s restaurant.

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IN late September, during the final days of the weeklong holiday of Sukkot, young boys in white shirts and black hats could often be seen lining the streets of Borough Park, a large neighborhood in southwest Brooklyn. Standing behind folding card tables arrayed with long, thin willow branches to be waved in

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The name won’t show up on any real-estate website’s search buttons and it can’t be found on the map, but signs that NoMad, the area North of Madison Square Park, is hitting its stride are hard to ignore.

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The Manhattan rental apartment market continued to strengthen in the third quarter of the year, according to two reports released Thursday.

The number of new leases signed during the quarter rocketed to 8,593, more than three times the

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FOR years, New York developers have been trying to maximize the value of residential properties by hiring celebrity architects. At Philip Johnson’s Urban Glass House, Richard Meier’s Perry Street apartments and Jean Nouvel’s 100 11th Avenue, the architects were chosen in part to raise condominium prices.

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The foreclosure auction, which was slated for Monday, to sell Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village was postponed until next week as senior lenders work on a deal to purchase a mezzanine loan held by a partnership led by hedge fund billionaire William Ackman, sources said.

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For the first time in three difficult years, more space is slated to be leased this year than is added to the market, according to a report from Jones Lang LaSalle.

So far this year, 3.1 million more square feet of office space has been rented than has been put up

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It wasn’t just the swinging chair, strung from the ceiling, that was distracting. When apartment hunters stepped into the third-floor studio for sale at 650 Avenue of the Americas, they found a white leather circular bed with red pillows and a hanging L.E.D. lamp with colors shifting from green to blue. Some said it reminded them of the film “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

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WILLIAM PHILLIPS owned Phillips-O’Shansky Meats on Gansevoort Street for decades starting in the early 20th century. He was a sharp-eyed man, his grandson Jonathan Phillips said, but he would never have imagined the meatpacking district as a place where people would want to live, let alone pay a premium to do so.

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WHAT if your apartment roommate moved out abruptly with no forwarding address, leaving you to pay his half of that month’s rent? Frantic mass e-mails and Facebook posts have yielded no replacements, and you are tired of dealing with spammers and strangers on Craigslist.

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Lobbying for a bill requesting an annual census of vacant buildings and lots across the city is intensifying even as the bill remains in the New York City Council committee where it has languished for more than six months.

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City Comptroller John Liu’s task force on Public Benefit Agreements on Wednesday released what has become a controversial report addressing the use of community benefit agreements, in which developers agree to provide community groups certain perks, or benefits to the neighborhood in which they are building, in exchange for support on their development projects.

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In a move housing advocates called “unprecedented,” a Bronx judge has ordered the Florida-based firm overseeing 10 dilapidated, foreclosed-upon apartment buildings in the borough to fork over $2.5 million within 30 days to cover repairs and maintenance on the properties.

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