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"pied-à-terre" Definitions
  1. a small flat, usually in a town, that you do not live in as your main home but keep for use when necessary

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He offered to mortgage his Manhattan pied-à-terre to repay the advance.
There's the added benefit that so-called pied-à-terre taxes are politically palatable.
That's less than some people had predicted a pied-à-terre tax would raise.
The association believes that most wealthy pied-à-terre owners would pay the tax.
Check out photos of Ina and Jeffrey's Parisian-inspired New York pied-à-terre, ahead.
Business Insider asked three industry leaders for their reactions to the pied-à-terre tax.
How are industry leaders reacting to Hoylman's plan to revive the pied-à-terre tax?
Also great were TOY SOLDIERS, AMEN CORNER, PIED-À-TERRE, AFRO POP and MR. RIGHT.
Friday, Mr. de Blasio's spokesman said the mayor does support the pied-à-terre tax.
However, the pied-à-terre tax was booted and instead, the progressive mansion tax was passed.
"People who own a pied-à-terre in Manhattan will be paying more," Mr. Parrott said.
Until recently, elected officials in New York have been less receptive to a pied-à-terre tax.
They successfully talked legislators out of the pied-à-terre, and a fully formulated public financing program.
State lawmakers are backing a pied-à-terre tax on multimillion-dollar second homes in New York.
Emmy Rossum The arctic view from the actress's pied-à-terre is almost as dreamy as her redesigned interiors.
I am still in disbelief that my francophile fantasy of having my own pied-à-terre is coming true.
By Tuesday, Assembly counsels were telling rank-and-file members that the pied-à-terre tax was likely unconstitutional.
He also has a home in Connecticut, and is likely to use the Chelsea apartment as a pied-à-terre.
They are in contract to buy a two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom unit as a pied-à-terre.
The estate belonging to the late comic book god is unloading his pied-à-terre inside the luxurious Four Seasons.
Christie's The Desmarais Collection: A pied-à-terre sale in New York brought in a total of $5,400,250 on April 30.
But the other buyers lived out of town and had wanted the apartment as a pied-à-terre, Mr. Friedman said.
It's a common trend among some deep-pocketed Bay Area homeowners that use the city's properties as their pied-à-terre.
Mr. Cuomo has backed closing the carried interest loophole, and his aides said he would consider a pied-à-terre tax.
Ivanka Trump has packed her bags for DC, and she no longer has any use for her Manhattan pied-à-terre.
After the Griffin deal closed, Corey Johnson, the city council's Speaker, announced that it was "time for a pied-à-terre tax".
By contrast, if New York's laws change, he could face $8.9m a year in pied-à-terre taxes for his Manhattan base.
A proposed pied-à-terre tax has been floating around New York City for yearsHoylman first introduced the bill back in 2014.
With the revival of the pied-à-terre tax looming over the luxury market, industry leaders are once again fearing its impact.
By Design Studio KO reimagines a Place des Victoires pied-à-terre as a minimalist sanctuary — out of time, yet completely contemporary.
Like the lobby, furnishings were trendy and it felt as if I was entering my own mid-century modern pied à terre.
In terms of generating a new revenue stream, when funds are urgently needed, the pied-à-terre tax is a good start.
They also own another SoHo loft, which they are currently renting out, and may eventually use that apartment as a pied-à-terre.
One recent afternoon, the director, whose new film is the mud-spattered saga "Mudbound," opened a laptop in her downtown pied-à-terre.
The Central Park South co-op that the Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti had long used as a pied-à-terre was sold privately.
Just a couple of months back, she revamped her Nolita pied-à-terre, giving it a midcentury-modern-with-a-tinge-of-Moroccan vibe.
"What she is doing with divorce is very smart," said Ana Luiza Rego, 57, as she sipped coffee at her Manhattan pied-à-terre.
Lacking affordable alternatives, Mr. Scott and Ms. Wantland decided in late 2013 to convert their 480-square-foot garage into a pied-à-terre.
Another saw a proposed pied-à-terre tax, an annual recurring tax on second homes that were valued at $5 million or more, eliminated.
Parente's latest work is the renovation of a 2,000-plus-square-foot pied-à-terre in Paris's well-heeled Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood.
It was shot on an inch-by-inch reconstruction of Hogg's elegant student digs—a pied-à-terre that her parents kept in Knightsbridge.
Ms. Schwarzer, a confirmed Francophile, still splits time between Cologne, a city very much of Germany's west, and a pied-à-terre in Paris.
I work overseas so it suits me fine to have it as a pied-à-terre that brings in some money while I'm away.
Democrats, having won full control of the state government in November's elections, are seriously considering a pied-à-terre tax in this year's budget.
Though there's no sprawling gardens like at their Hamptons estate, the 2,450-square-foot apartment is a perfect pied-à-terre for the famous couple.
New York State Senator Brad Hoylman is hoping to revive the pied-à-terre tax, which was booted this past spring, The Real Deal reported.
The passing of the revised mansion tax instead of the proposed pied-à-terre tax sent waves of relief through New York City's luxury market.
Legislative leaders emphasized that they were not backing off from taxing the wealthy, a fact that did appease supporters of the pied-à-terre tax.
Another idea worth considering is to tax second homes in New York City worth $5 million or more, known as the pied-à-terre tax.
"If we did have marijuana passed, we wouldn't have needed to substitute the pied-à-terre," Mr. Cuomo said in remarks to reporters in Albany.
She is part of the official delegation, carrying a diplomat visa, and drives a Benz and owns a high-rise pied-à-terre here in Dandong.
Four years ago, Jack and Mary Cleland, a couple who live in Corning, N.Y., bought a pied-à-terre at Trump Plaza on East 61st Street.
But the New York City comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, had predicted that a pied-à-terre tax would bring in a minimum of $650 million annually.
All blond wood and white walls, my 390-square-foot Loft King Luxe room, the second-largest category, felt like a chic Montreal pied-à-terre.
A couple of weeks earlier, he and his wife, Chrisann Verges, had arrived from Los Angeles at their pied-à-terre on the Upper West Side.
Of those, about 24,0003 residences were sold for $2000 million or more, the threshold where the proposed pied-à-terre tax would begin to kick in.
The pricey pied-à-terre is perched on a crazy-chic block of Neo-Georgian edifices originally erected by the Clark family more than 100 years ago.
Before revising the mansion tax rates, lawmakers proposed a pied-à-terre tax that would mandate an annual tax on second homes worth $5 million or more.
They were in their airy headquarters, a former artist's studio that looks more like the pied-à-terre of a magpie tastemaker than an antiseptic company showroom.
THE PAVAROTTI PIED-À-TERRE, at the Hampton House, at 150 Central Park South, between Seventh Avenue and Avenue of the Americas, was sold for $9 million.
Women who can scrape together a few hundred dollars to self-fund their abortion but cannot afford a pied-à-terre are now completely out of luck.
Lonsdale is so gratified by the sustainable material's luxurious finish that she's having a cabinet-maker replicate them for the kitchen of her new Portobello pied-à-terre.
When they met with individual lawmakers, industry members handed out printouts showing that the pied-à-terre tax would capture far less revenue than Mr. Stringer had predicted.
Affordable and stylish, its 18 rooms read stylish friend's pied-à-terre, a lively trifecta of House of Hackney wallpaper, retro seating and a mini cocktail-making kit.
The office of the city comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, estimated that a pied-à-terre tax would bring in a minimum of $650 million annually if enacted today.
A pied-à-terre tax: New York lawmakers may be more receptive to it after the hedge fund billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin bought a penthouse for $21 million.
I couldn't pretend to be a start-up millionaire looking for a pied-à-terre, as home buyers are usually funneled to weekend open houses (which don't have food).
But others said the argument for a pied-à-terre tax over a transfer tax, for the sake of political optics, proved that the latter was a better idea.
Kathryn Wylde, the president of the Partnership for New York City, an influential business group, said the death of the pied-à-terre tax showed political rhetoric meeting reality.
We upgraded to a pied-à-terre junior suite, which was amply sized at about 600 square feet and had a separate living area with an L-shaped couch.
But it dropped plans for a recurring "pied-à-terre tax" of 5 percent on the value of high-end second homes, after opposition from the real estate industry.
With the state projecting lower income tax revenue, and the fate of an effort to legalize — and tax — marijuana in question, the pied-à-terre tax is gaining steam.
The studio building, which includes the Japanese-American artist's pied-à-terre apartment, will be lightly renovated, and original objects from Noguchi's time will be returned to the space.
Maybe they could buy a one-bedroom, use it as a pied-à-terre and share it with their daughter, Phoebe, 26, who was living with a roommate in Brooklyn.
Anthony Corbisiero wanted a quick sale on his studio pied-à-terre in West Chelsea, as he planned to use a portion of the proceeds for his daughter's looming college expenses.
Ms. Sisti, 26, grew up in Bergen County, N.J., and her parents have a pied-à-terre on the Upper West Side, so she and Mr. Manamperi decided to hunt there.
As soon as Cagnoli, who had been searching unsuccessfully for a flat in Venice, entered the space, she knew she had found not merely a pied-à-terre but a calling.
She and her husband occupied the apartment from around 1992 to 2013, using it first as a pied-à-terre and eventually as a permanent residence before relocating to San Francisco.
A pied-à-terre tax would institute a yearly tax on homes worth $5 million or more, and would apply to homes that do not serve as the buyer's primary residence.
Indeed, the City Council speaker, Corey Johnson, said he planned to urge legislators in Albany to authorize the pied-à-terre tax when he testifies there during budget hearings next week.
And based on the expected revenue stream, Mr. Cuomo estimated that the state could then raise $9 billion in bonds, backed by the expected taxes paid by pied-à-terre owners.
Maybe she'll have a little pied-à-terre to live in during the week so she can go to the office, and she can head up to Snow Falls on the weekend?
That's because New York State Senator Brad Hoylman is on a mission to bring back the pied-à-terre tax that was, most recently, turned down in March, The Real Deal reported.
State lawmakers proposed a pied-à-terre tax, an annual recurring tax on second homes valued at more than $5103 million, but it was derailed under intense lobbying from real estate groups.
But one snowy night almost four years ago, he was having dinner with his business partner Frank Selvaggi, who had a better idea: Mr. Bonsignore should buy a proper pied-à-terre.
They follow Mr. Bezos' $80 million purchase of the top four floors of a Manhattan apartment building last year, reportedly with the goal of turning them into a gigantic pied-à-terre.
It partially allayed the fear that all this tumult was for another expatriate pied-à-terre, one of those places, so common in New York circa 2019, whose lights are forever off.
Luckily, when Devon gets to what I assume is their pied-à-terre in the city, she discovers that Richie hasn't been crushed under a thousand cinder blocks; he's merely in the shower.
Mr. Alhokair went into contract on the penthouse, using Penthouse Four Three Two PA LLC, in 2013, two years before the building's completion, and is using the condo as a pied-à-terre.
He has championed a "pied-à-terre" tax on absentee homeowners who essentially park their money in New York City real estate, a tactic that Mr. de Blasio's administration explored but ultimately dropped.
By midnight, Dunbar would either collapse onto the bed at his nearby Pontalba pied-à-terre or drive back to Slidell, where he had to report to the job site by four a.m.
Mr. Remilleux, 21940, has a pied-à-terre in Paris, but his primary residence is the 15-bedroom Château de Digoine, on a 250-acre estate near the city of Beaune, in Burgundy.
"But it's more like, own my home plus a pied-à-terre in Paris, and a cottage in Maine, and live off interest income from the $4 million we'd have left," she said.
He said all this while standing outside the very source of his troubles, the Sharif family pied-à-terre in the Park Lane apartment building, near the iconic Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park.
The looming shortfalls led the governor and legislative leaders last week to signal an accord on a so-called pied-à-terre tax, which will target superluxury second homes in New York City.
So a compromise emerged, yet again: Instead of a recurring pied-à-terre tax, the state will raise the so-called "mansion tax" and the real-estate transfer tax on multimillion-dollar properties.
But the abrupt rise and fall of the so-called pied-à-terre tax also illustrated the challenges in translating progressive rhetoric into policy, and the continuing influence of the traditional powers in Albany.
Although she has rented out the unit for two years, since moving to Long Island, where she lives with her husband and two children, a future pied-à-terre has not been ruled out.
He convinced the most recent owners, a retired couple who used the apartment as a pied-à-terre, to move by agreeing to pay nearly $1 million for an apartment appraised at significantly less.
Man of the World Jeremy Irons owns a pied-à-terre in London, a house in Oxfordshire and a 15th-century castle in Cork, Ireland, painted a color that complaining neighbors have called pink.
When Jeff Karliner and Henry Johnson retired in 2017 and closed a jewelry business they had run together in New Paltz, N.Y., they decided to find a pied-à-terre in New York City.
With a little strategy in your fabric choices, you can fill your luggage with stylish options that will make you look like you've stepped out of your pied-à-terre instead of off the plane.
With the help of designer Sally Gotfredson and The Studio at One Kings Lane, Kaling's pied-à-terre is now a little bit midcentury-modern, a little bit Moroccan — and definitely not up Lahiri's alley.
As it turned out, she couldn't afford to use the place as a pied-à-terre, as she had intended, so she rented it out for 22 years before moving in full time in 2007.
I could see someone interested who is looking for a very elegant pied-à-terre or perhaps someone who has a big function with the European Commission, where he can put up private dinner parties.
Today's ultrawealthy, he says, are often looking for "the four-pack" — a pied-à-terre in New York, a beach house in the Hamptons, a ski villa in Aspen and a winter condo in Miami.
On Saturday, Judith Bodnar, an internist from outside Albany, was trying out the Italia slope arm sofa in white linen for a pied-à-terre she's bought in Virginia Beach to be near her grandchildren.
Sorrentino, the Italian writer-director of the new HBO series "The Young Pope," was ashing his Toscanello cigar out a window in the living room of his pied-à-terre, sixty-eight floors above Manhattan.
Under the Senate's bill, a pied-à-terre tax would institute a yearly tax on homes worth $5 million or more, and would apply to homes that do not serve as the buyer's primary residence.
So when we learned that the couple is putting one of their New York City apartments — an Upper East Side pied-à-terre — up for sale, we had to pore through the photos in the listing.
When she renovated her two-bedroom pied-à-terre at Museum Tower on West 53rd Street, decorated with contemporary and antique furnishings, she had a dedicated broom closet built in the hall by the living room.
"If I had my druthers, it would be to do the pied-à-terre tax because it does target nonresidents," said Ron Deutsch, the executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a union-backed think tank.
The firm's nearby Workstead House, as it's now known, doubles as a pied-à-terre for its owner and an events space for the couple who designed it, whose own second home is also in town.
His two-bedroom, two-bath unit in the building, which opens in 2018, cost $2.3 million, said Dr. Ulahannan, who expects to use it as a once-a-month pied-à-terre with his wife, Leena.
He stumbled as he explained his plan for "democracy vouchers," to reduce the influence of donors, and did not fully explain a proposal for a "pied-à-terre tax" on real estate owned by non-city residents.
Corey Johnson, the speaker of the City Council, said there is "wide support" among members for a pied-à-terre tax because of the condition of the city's vital infrastructure such as the subways and public housing.
The couple, whose main residence is in Charlotte, ended up settling on a flexible floor plan for their city pied-à-terre in which the kitchen and dining room can be opened or closed to the living room.
Riham El Batanouny and Oussama Jamal, who live in Cairo and Dubai, are in contract to buy a two-bedroom pied-à-terre at 101 Wall for about $1.53 million, and plan to take advantage of the program.
"That [proposed pied-à-terre tax] will dramatically affect prices, which will dramatically affect the appetite for developers to keep developing, which affects the employment of tens of thousands," principal of JDS Development Group, told digital-media company
In theory, Mr. Trump could set up a pied-à-terre in the Old Post Office Pavilion, a federal landmark blocks from the White House that he leases from the government and is turning into a luxury hotel.
In the end, "we decided to give it where we thought it would be appreciated the most," Mr. Hays said recently, speaking in a Southern drawl and sitting in the couple's cozy art-filled pied-à-terre here.
The legislators agreed on the tax after scrapping what would have been a more lucrative, annual tax on thousands of those properties, known as the pied-à-terre tax, after an intense campaign from the real estate industry.
Thus arose a number of skyscrapers on and around Central Park and exclusive pockets of Manhattan that set eye-watering sale records (currently: $240 million for a 24,000-square-foot pied-à-terre on Billionaire's Row in Midtown).
"We need to fund the M.T.A." Indeed, with the state facing a shortfall in income-tax receipts, the pied-à-terre tax has become an attractive option, especially as other possibilities — marijuana legalization and congestion pricing — may stall.
The current owner, the German-born designer Tomas Maier, who has his own fashion line, acquired the apartment in 2012 for $8 million, and used it as a pied-à-terre with Andrew Preston, his husband and business partner.
During a recent stay, I was quite impressed by the highly-designed rooms, which felt like a study in midcentury modern decor, and as if I was living in my own pied-à-terre rather than a standard hotel.
Mark Levine, a city councilman who represents Upper Manhattan, will propose in a forthcoming white paper that money from a pied-à-terre tax should be dedicated to fixing the city's public housing stock and to create affordable housing.
Ms. Disney and Mr. Pearl said they also would support a pied-à-terre tax on properties such as the $238 million Central Park penthouse bought by Kenneth C. Griffin, though the group has not taken an official stance.
But this year, Mr. Gupta will be spending time with his wife and four daughters at his apartment in Manhattan's Century building, an Art Deco edifice on Central Park West that has served for years as his pied-à-terre.
He and his wife, Carmen M. Thain, are selling their duplex penthouse at the venerable 216 Park Avenue co-op building, at East 219st Street, which they had been using as a pied-à-terre for the last several years.
Earlier in the year, developers had also been hit with a new transfer tax on high-value homes — known as a mansion tax — though they successfully fought off an annual pied-à-terre tax that they considered even more onerous.
Mr. Parrott, who wrote a 2014 paper for the Fiscal Policy Institute that was the basis of Mr. Hoylman's legislation, estimated that Mr. Griffin would have to pay $8.9 million per year if there was a pied-à-terre tax.
It was not immediately clear how much money the tax would raise; the office of the city comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, estimated that a pied-à-terre tax would bring in a minimum of $650 million annually if enacted today.
None resembled my other friends or anyone else I knew, but I found myself going out with them after work for dinner or dancing, one time ending up at the pied-à-terre of a counselor's suburban parents to watch a pornographic movie.
But it still generated a relatively quick and hefty profit for the owner, who used the limited liability company BBC Chelsea; the apartment was bought from the sponsor for $2602 million about 220 months ago and was used as a pied-à-terre.
Like, entertaining johns and gentlemen in her little pied-à-terre downtown, and then sliding down the fire-fucking-pole and punching the clock to pop that pussy in a handstand on stage for the rest of her Friday and Saturday nights.
"I'm not sure what the goal of the pied-à-terre was except to say, we don't like people coming into the city and having a house they don't stay in all the time," said Martha Stark, the city's former finance commissioner.
He was joined by fellow billionaires Kenneth C. Griffin (whose $238 million pied-à-terre on Central Park South is America's most expensive home), who gave $25 million, and Stephen M. Ross, the chairman of the Related Companies, which developed Hudson Yards.
Out-of-town homeowners: "People who own a pied-à-terre in Manhattan will be paying more," said James A. Parrott, director of economic and fiscal policies at the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School and a commission member.
WHEN OLIVIER MARTY and Karl Fournier of the Paris-based architecture firm Studio KO were asked by an Australian entrepreneur to create a pied-à-terre on the city's Place des Victoires, the pair reveled in the strange layers of history they uncovered.
Mr. Griffin, the billionaire founder of the Chicago-based hedge fund Citadel, had agreed to buy the apartment in 20143, when construction of the Central Park South building was just starting, and he is expected to use it as a pied-à-terre.
Over the course of 10 months, in countless conversations in his apartment in Manchester, his pied-à-terre in Barcelona, the gym and the pool at City's training facility and on the streets of New York, Gundogan returned to one trope again and again.
Mr. Heastie estimated that the new tax could bring in between $300 million and $400 million, equivalent to the $370 million that the Real Estate Board of New York (Rebny), an industry group, projected that the pied-à-terre tax would have brought in.
Clinton who had the use of a pied-à-terre in Trump Tower purchased for him by Universal Pictures, barely stayed at the place, despite its views of Central Park, and offered it to the candidate as a crash pad on grueling campaign days.
On the way to job No. 2—a pied-à-terre on the Upper West Side—Bradley recounted how, a few days earlier, he and a colleague had mistakenly taken a statue from a large apartment in midtown and donated it to a church.
PARIS — Two well-heeled Qatari sisters arrived on Monday night with their family by private jet at Le Bourget airport, north of Paris, where they were met by a chauffeur-driven Bentley waiting to take them to their pied-à-terre in the French capital.
That's how much Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire hedge fund manager and trophy home collector, paid last week, after taxes and fees, for a nearly 0003,000-square-foot pied-à-terre on Central Park South — the most expensive home ever sold in the United States.
Several Democratic state legislators, as well as the City Council speaker, Corey Johnson, last week threw their support behind a so-called pied-à-terre tax, on wealthy people's pricey secondary homes, after a hedge fund billionaire bought a $238 million penthouse on Central Park.
Mr. Cuomo said on Monday there was a consensus among the state's leaders, all Democrats, that a so-called pied-à-terre tax was a good idea, calling it the "only agreed-to new money" for a state facing a significant drop in tax revenue.
The promotional material for this stately edifice unabashedly displays an aerial view of London highlighting Buckingham Palace, the queen's London home; Clarence House, which is the Prince of Wales's pied-à-terre; and St. James's Palace, another royal mansion, built by Henry VIII in the 1530s.
The new space may be a bit lighter and less heavily masculine than Mr. Ford's previous store, which was designed before he had introduced his women's collection, but it is well within Mr. Ford's style — oligarch's pied-à-terre — with its marble accents and shagreen end tables.
In Albany, one lawmaker wanted to know what Mr. de Blasio thought about a so-called pied-à-terre tax, which would levy an annual tax on second homes worth at least $5 million in the hopes of raising funds to help address the city's housing crisis.
Partly because of his addiction to celebrity roll calls: He's worked with "Jessica Chastain, Keanu Reeves, James Franco, Olivia Wilde"; from Suchitra's apartment he spies Brad Pitt's pied-à-terre; he's told by one of Nero's sons that he's "more handsome" than Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and George Clooney.
In New York State, the group has lobbied to close the carried-interest tax loophole, which shields the income of many hedge-fund and private-equity-fund managers, and it has advocated for a so-called pied-à-terre bracket, which would apply to people with part-time homes.
A Manhattan pied-à-terre has long been a globally recognized sign of wealth and status — especially in recent years, as billionaires the world over have come to see a Manhattan condo, even one rarely visited, as a vessel for laundered wealth or a hedge against political upheaval at home.
"I think we have a mass transit system that is in crisis, public housing that is falling down around its residents and a yawning gap between the very wealthy and ordinary New Yorkers that is driving this conversation," said Senator Brad Hoylman, a sponsor of his chamber's pied-à-terre bill.
"One of the initiatives we've been using for a few years now is the complete recycling of food waste to grow vegetables, herbs, and garnishes which then come back to the restaurant and on diners' plates again," David Moore, owner of Michelin star restaurant Pied à Terre, told Verdict Food Service in 2018.
The lights in the Eiffel Tower, which I can just see from my little pied-à-terre, were still glowing after dusk, though the tower would be closed to all visitors starting Friday as was the case for all museums, and beginning Monday all schools as well, from nursery school to universities, across France.
Michael Kink, the executive director of the Strong Economy for All coalition, a group of unions and community organizations, said a pied-à-terre tax "zeros in on the global ultrarich," while a transfer tax on expensive properties could also affect families in gentrifying areas of Brooklyn or Queens looking to sell their longtime homes.
That deal — the most expensive residential sale in United States history — seemingly set the stage for New York's sudden embrace of a so-called pied-à-terre tax, a potential windfall for the city's subway system and a small, subtle victory for those who believe Manhattan has become an unfettered playground for the rich.
On Sunday, Diane von Furstenberg, the founder of the brand that bears her name and, as the chairwoman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, a pillar of the fashion establishment, will hold her own "experience" over two floors of her meatpacking district headquarters-New York pied-à-terre (she lives on the top floor).
Articles that celebrate the excesses of the 1 percent – like the recent real estate piece explaining that members of a certain class of homeowners feel they need something called a "four-pack": a pied-à-terre in New York, a beach house in the Hamptons, a ski villa in Aspen and a winter condo in Miami.
She bought the house in 1992 for around $154 million and used it primarily as a pied-à-terre and meeting place for the charitable organization she set up in honor of her parents, the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation, according to Eugene V. Kokot, an executor of the estate and a foundation board member.
Mr. Macklowe believes that Tower Fifth will surpass what he used to regard as his crowning achievement, 432 Park Avenue, a supertall tower completed in 0003, that helped solidify the transformation of New York into a real estate-driven city that, like London or Hong Kong, has become a pricey pied-à-terre for the super wealthy.
Line: Colts by 21 ½ (London) The Jaguars are lacking when it comes to wins, and have sometimes struggled to get fans in their home stadium in Jacksonville, but how many teams can claim to have an 2964,23-seat pied-à-terre in London that, according to BBC News, had the most toilets (2,618) of any venue in the world when it opened?
It's easy to see the suburban weekend house as a modern twist on the city pied-à-terre: In the last century, if a parent was working late, he or she might stay in an apartment in Manhattan rather than head home to the suburbs, and the place offered a base for family activities in the city on the weekend.
Their intention was to turn it into a pied-à-terre; their main residence would be a large waterfront house in Sea Cliff, N.Y. But designing and building that house would take a couple of years, and in the meantime the apartment — a dated postwar studio with a tiny kitchen, low ceilings and a single closet, for which they paid about $610,000 — would be their primary home.
So when the cartoonist and graphic storyteller Roz Chast invites a friend to dinner near her West Side pied-à-terre, where she escapes from her staider, greener Connecticut life, the Turkish restaurant she chooses inevitably turns out to be the most purely Chastian locale in New York: even on a Friday night, the tables seem filled with disconsolate, anxious outsiders, and the waiters wear shirts blazoned with the restaurant's name.
Two veteran Democrats are challenging Mr. de Blasio in the primary: Tony Avella, a state senator from Queens who has challenged the mayor's approach to homelessness and fought for a Staten Island family trying to keep a large pig as a pet; and Sal Albanese, an Italian-born lawyer and former City Councilman from southwestern Brooklyn who, in his third mayoral run, has argued for a new tax on nonprimary residences — a "pied-à-terre" tax — to help fund affordable housing.
Inside, it's the English interior designer Rita Konig's Hollywood fantasy: grass cloth on the walls; a Prada-green living room with a fireplace, honor bar and bold upholstery; a secluded little roof bar (open only to guests and their guests) with rattan chairs and cactus in pots; a reception desk that doubles as a wine bar (the clerk pours a complimentary glass during check-in); a bright yellow kitchen; and 23 uniquely designed guest rooms that have the air of an impossibly tasteful best friend's pied-à-terre.

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