114 Liberty Street
Financial District, cross street: Church St/Greenwich St
Web ID: 1110032

Dramatic and grand high floor in a doorman loft condominium floats a private full floor of 5400 luxurious sqaure feet located in New York City's most talked about neighborhood. 12 foot vaulted ceilings encompassed by 4 naturally lighted exposures. New wide floor planking. Five generously proportioned bedrooms, four and one half bathrooms will surely keep a growing or already large family content. 10 tremendous closets plus a walk in mudroom adjoining the vestibule.Fantasy chefs eat in kitchen adjoins a 20 foot den. Dining room and library with a wood burning fireplace guarantee a wonderous entertaining experience. The "GREAT ROOM" lives up to its name due to its expansiveness and hypnotizing city views seen thru 29 eight foot high picture windows. Wired thruout in addition to having zoned A/C and heating. Unbeatable low carrying costs as well as being intelligently priced for "todays" market. One viewing will have you calling this exquisite property home.
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360 East 88th Street
Upper East Side, cross street: First & Second Avenues
Web ID: 1021092

NYC's most unforgetable views are now available from the 43rd floor of this top rated condominium. Midtown southern skyline vus abound from your 21 foot eat-in-kitchen with picturesque windows.21 ft master bedroom suite and windowed mater bath share this tantalizing view. Gargantuan south west corner living delivers a fantasy skyline and sunset serenade every evening. Embark upon your library/den with the George Washington Bridge as your backscape. 3 additional bedroom suites(total of 4) all brighten up each morning with their eastern sunrise views and settle down in the evening with the twinkling lights of the Triborough Bridge and the planes landing and taking off form LaGuardia Airport. Three and one half bathrooms plus a powder room. Laundry and 9 foot ceilings. This is a full service building with a child friendly out door play area, state of the art gym and attractive lobby. Perfect for the discriminating space and view buyer looking for that unique special home large enough to raise a happy family in.
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This map from Trulia shows some listings on the Upper West Side

In the last two weeks, two powerful new Web-based tools have launched in the hopes of simplifying the home-buying and selling process. Both put vast amounts of new data into your hands and both are fun to use, but both have major kinks.

As Prudential Douglas Elliman President & CEO Dorothy Herman told Newsday's Randi Marshall in a hard-hitting article about Zillow, consumers might choose to use it as an information tool, a starting point for a future purchase - or simply for fun, but "I certainly wouldn't price my house based on that."

Zillow
What it does: provides free, instant valuation data for homes
Biggest plus: the promise of informational power at your fingertips
Biggest minus: data is incomplete, especially in Manhattan–where co-op sales data is not publicly available (co-ops make up about 80% of the Manhattan market)

Trulia
What it does: aggregates all listings of homes for sale from various brokerage Web sites
Biggest plus: a joy for anyone who loves real estate
Biggest minus: software misses a huge number of the available homes in NY

Summary
These tools are fun to use and might help you learn something about the real estate market, but they are no substitute for actual knowledge. By showing how hard it is to provide the expertise that good real estate agents carry around in their head, it proves that agents are irreplaceable after all.

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