Matthew Sedacca

New York

Reporter at New York Post

I just live here. @curbed @nymag writer. Holler: [email protected]

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Articles

Who Rents and Who Owns in This Year’s Mayoral Race

2 days ago | curbed.com | Matthew Sedacca

And how much they pay, of course As you are probably aware by now, the residency requirements to become mayor of New York City are quite lax. You can sort of live in New Jersey or spend years mansion-surfing between Westchester and the Hamptons and still legally become mayor as long as you live in the five boroughs come Election Day. So where do our would-be mayors live this time around?
Why Are So Many Ketamine Clinics in Midtown East?

4 days ago | curbed.com | Matthew Sedacca

There has been a boom in ketamine clinics in New York City with an odd handful popping up along or just off Madison Avenue in midtown. More than a dozen ketamine clinics have opened up across the city in recent years, according to some counting by Crain’s.
NYC Two-Bedroom Rents Are Getting Even More Expensive

1 week ago | curbed.com | Matthew Sedacca

A Riverside Boulevard two-bedroom apartment, as shown in this listing photo, has seen a nearly 14% rent increase since May 2024. Getting a good deal on a two-bedroom — the ideal apartment size for someone who needs a roommate or is having a kid — has always been somewhat elusive. But it seems to be getting even more difficult.
Two Bedrooms and a Private Garden in Jackson Heights for $785,000

1 week ago | curbed.com | Matthew Sedacca

This Jackson Heights co-op, which has moldings and oak floors with mahogany inlay, as shown in this listing photo, is worth the 7 train life. For under a million dollars, one can find all sorts of housing configurations: park- and subway-adjacent studios, one-bedrooms hidden in carriage houses or former shoe factories, and even the occasional true two-bedroom.
A Chelsea One-Bed With a Very Appealing Shelving System for $725,000

2 weeks ago | curbed.com | Matthew Sedacca

The custom built-in storage in this Chelsea pre-war co-op, as seen in this listing photo, elevates the living room from charmless to inviting. For under a million dollars, one can find all sorts of housing configurations: park- and subway-adjacent studios, one-bedrooms hidden in carriage houses or former shoe factories, and even the occasional true two-bedroom.
The Party Boy Who Moved Into Senior Housing on East 73rd Street

2 weeks ago | curbed.com | Matthew Sedacca

John Carley Jr. had an enviable setup by most measures: His one-bedroom on a leafy stretch of East 73rd Street was a three-minute walk to Central Park, and the rent, in 2021, was just $1,494 a month. The only problem was Carley was not a senior, and the James Lenox House is a senior-living community. Which is part of the reason he’s now being sued, along with his mother, for at least $2 million by the organization that runs the program.
An Inness of One’s Own in Rhinebeck

3 weeks ago | curbed.com | Matthew Sedacca

Part of living in New York City is thinking about moving out of New York City. Each month, we’ll round up the best listings within commuting-ish distance, places where entire houses go for the cost of a “junior one-bedroom” (or less), but you’ll have to fix your own toilet. This month, we found a lot of good ones in Rhinebeck.
There’s More Legal Drama at the Mandarin Oriental Residences

3 weeks ago | curbed.com | Matthew Sedacca

An image from the listing of apartment 18A at the Mandarin Oriental Residences, whose owners are suing the firm behind the building. John and Diane Goodman have aired many, many grievances about their time at the Mandarin Oriental Residences, Fifth Avenue.
The City Has Plans for a New Skyscraper in Downtown Brooklyn

3 weeks ago | curbed.com | Matthew Sedacca

Downtown Brooklyn will soon be home to the borough’s tallest and second-tallest buildings if everything goes Eric Adams’s way. The neo-Gothic, very empty Brooklyn Tower is currently the tallest in the borough, but if everything goes Eric Adams’s way — which, for better or worse, quite a few things have been these days — Downtown Brooklyn will be getting Brooklyn’s second-tallest spire, too.
A Bond Street Loft, Stripped Down and Filled Back Up

3 weeks ago | curbed.com | Matthew Sedacca

In 2016, Nasser Nakib purchased the top floor unit in 21 Bond Street for himself and his three sons, who were teens at the time. The one thing that was missing? A fireplace. “I thought, Okay, I’ll have to figure that one out by myself,” he says. When Nasser Nakib first walked into the top floor at 21 Bond, a slender Renaissance Revival storefront-and-loft building right off Lafayette, it was a “boring” white box.