It's another story of emotional duress from a resident of the super expensive Plaza Hotel residences! This time, it's not about being lonely, it's about a resident being stuck in the trash room for seven hours. "Top real estate broker" Joanna Cutler went to throw out her trash on February 20. Thinking she would be gone for a minute and leaving her apartment door open, she went to the garbage room, only for the door......

The NY Times' Styles section describes the lonely existence of new residents of the Plaza Hotel condos. Why lonely? Well, if you can afford the pricey digs ($6,400 per square foot!; an owner interviewed paid $5.8 million for a two bedroom), your neighbors are also rich people who probably have other residences and don't live there very often. In other words, does the Times seriously expect us to feel sorry for these people? Maybe......

For the past few months, the Post has been detailing the problems of apartment mold at a new condo conversion - and how they have forced longtime New York City local news personality Kaity Tong out of her home. In September, Tong had been living in Gramercy Park Hotel for many weeks, as the floors and wall in her Chelsea home started to buckle, seemingly caused by the conversion of the O'Neill Building, on......

This is what a hot real estate market has wrought: One of the city's oldest Jewish cemeteries has had construction debris fall onto dozens of tombstones in Chelsea. Congregation Shearith Israel built three cemeteries in Manhattan, and the Chelsea location, at 21st Street between 6th and 7th Avenues, was in use in 1828-1851 (one is at 55 St. James Place and another is at 76 West 11th Street). It seems like mortar from The O'Neill......

While the city has stepped in (sort of, as Curbed points out) to make sure jobs are saved during the renovation of the Plaza Hotel into a luxury apartment and boutique hotel, some people still not happy. Namely, the parents of Maria Hillman. Caren and Melvin Hillman are suing the Plaza and new owners Elad Properties for fraud and ruining their daughter's wedding dreams. They had booked the Plaza in July 2004 for a July......

Following up last summer's news about the Plaza Hotel's sale to a developer to be converted to condos, it turns out that New York Region > Condos and Stores Planned for Plaza" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/26/nyregion/26plaza.html">retail stores and a small hotel will be included in the plan. Gothamist is relieved that the Oak Room will be reopened; the Palm Court will reopen as well, since it's a landmark. The developer, Elad Properties, says that their goal is to......

Friday, it was disclosed that The Plaza Hotel, a New York landmark, was sold for the price of $675 million. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, the fourth richest person in the world, and Millennium & Copthorne Hotels sold the hotel to Elad Properties NY, a real estate developer. Because the hotel has been losing money recently, Elan plans to turn some of the rooms into condominiums. Donald Trump, who had previously owned The Plaza, was surprised......