In The Press

Family's Design Touch in Brooklyn

Wall Street Journal | 2014

Ellen Kinney purchased a duplex apartment on North 9th Street in Williamsburg in 2010 for $705,000, according to public records. The one-bedroom apartment with home office has its own private entrance and is located on the ground and lower levels of the building.

Originally from New Jersey, Ms.Kinney grew up in a house built by her great-grandfather, and watched her father do renovations and upgrades to the home. Her brothers also have their own construction company, and one of his brothers built his own home.

I've been around that my whole life, so it comes quite naturally,' Ms. Kinney said. (read more)

Fashion Forward

New York Post | 2013

Actress Tatum O’Neal has left the building, but Antonio Versace, a partial heir to his late uncle Gianni Versace’s vast fashion fortune, has moved into the Lower East Side’s Forward condo complex.

The luxury building, where O’Neal recently sold her two-bedroom for $1.72 million, was the former home of the Jewish Daily Forward newspaper, and Karl Marx’s face is etched into the outside of the structure. But the skyrocketing prices in the building are pure capitalism. Versace is paying $9,000 a month for a 1,330-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bathroom unit.

The renovated home, which was listed by Town Residential’s Zeshaan Qadir, faces Seward Park and is on the top floor of 175 E. Broadway, with views that include the Empire State Building. The apartment includes an open, eat-in kitchen with Carrera marble, a tin ceiling and an L-shaped living/dining room with a gas fireplace. (read more)