$1.3 million
Amount developer Kent Swig donated to help fund the construction of downtown’s Imagination Playground
$1,998
Price of the Blue Ridge Retreat Playset at Walmart.com (comes with three swings, a climbing wall and two types of slides!)
$150,000
Price cut a New Rochelle couple offered in an attempt to sell their three-bedroom home
$275
Hourly rate for the prostitution ring said couple allegedly started to make ends meet after finding no takers for their property
2,100
Houses sold during homebuilder Hovnanian Enterprises’ recent three-day “Sale of the Century”
92
Years in this century other homebuilders have left to top Hovnanian’s bargains and take away their title
$2.1 million
Cost of renovating the 17th-century John Bowne House located in Flushing, Queens
$430,000
Average sales price of a home in Flushing
$15 million
Amount former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters just paid for his new East Side townhouse
1.5 million
New copies of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” $15 million buys on Amazon.com (with free shipping!)
$18.9 million
Estimated price for a top-floor suite in the new Trump SoHo condo-hotel
245
Number of nights the owner of such a unit will not be allowed to stay there per calendar year
30 percent
Increase in NYC foreclosures in August 2007 compared to August 2006
115 percent
Increase in foreclosures nationwide over the same period of time
10 percent
Discount Aptsandlofts.com president David Maundrell estimated that renters received for living off the G line in a recent Real Deal story
12,000
Maximum square footage allowed for Sagaponack houses after recent passage of new size restrictions
66,000
Estimated square footage of Ira Rennert’s Sagaponack estate that inspired said restrictions
12
Number of phones lines per apartment as advertised by the new Ludlow Lofts development
142
Pages shed by Verizon’s Manhattan White Pages over the last year as people drop their land lines
$2,836
Price per square foot a European buyer recently paid for a penthouse at Andres Balazs’ William Beaver House
$1.42
Recent exchange rate for the euro – an all-time high against the dollar
899
Reported height in feet of the new apartment building being planned by Elad Properties, making it the tallest residential building in the city
38
Feet the Elad development would have on Trump World Tower – currently the city’s tallest residence
$1.9 million
Asking price for a Patterson, N.Y., home and the acre-size island it sits on in the middle of Putnam Lake
3 minutes
Length of commute to the mainland via rowboat, according to the seller