October 8, 2025
What Up Family?!
Welcome to The Edit with Aaron Seawood, a lifestyle letter serving a weekly dose of real estate, culture, and wisdom—all in three minutes or less. Let’s dive in.
Real Estate Remix
🗽The Flatiron Reborn
One of New York’s most recognizable silhouettes is stepping back into the spotlight. The Flatiron Building, our city’s beloved steel-framed icon and postcard star, is being reborn as a 38-residence luxury condo.
Developed by The Brodsky Organization and The Sorgente Group, with Corcoran Sunshine leading sales, this feels way more like a resurrection than a renovation. Prices start just under $11 million and stretch to $50 million, with a total sellout expected north of $380 million once you factor in the wine cellars and private storage suites.
The crown jewels are the duplexes: 7,400 square feet of light, volume, and history, each with five bedrooms, five baths, and terraces that hang over the hustle and bustle of Manhattan. A penthouse with 3,200 square feet of outdoor space is in the wings if you really want to fly.
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NYC Insider: What’s Happening This Week
🎶 The Met’s Finale in the Sky (through 10.19)
The Met’s rooftop is taking one last bow before closing for renovation, and they’re going out on a high note. This season’s final Roof Garden Commission belongs to Jennie C. Jones, who basically scores art.
Her installation, Ensemble, bends sound and structure into one clean line; part sculpture, part frequency. It nods to the strings of a violin but also to something deeper, the throughline of art history itself. Jones has always lived in that sweet spot where minimalism meets Black sound.
It’s sleek. It’s cerebral. But it’s got rhythm bubbling underneath, like a song you’d hear in a passing car. When the Cantor terrace shuts down to make room for the new Tang Wing (reopening 2030), Ensemble will stand as the final verse.
Weekly Gem 💎
Return to the Source.
Sometimes the quickest way to remember who you are is to step outside and let the universe remind you.
The city is loud! Headlines, emails, notifications. But nature? Nature whispers. And in that whisper is your flow. You may have seen me on my IG story where I parked under a large tree and reconnected with Source.
So, touch the ground. Feel the sun. Watch how the wind moves without asking. It doesn’t hurry. It doesn’t compete. It just is.
This week, unplug long enough to hear yourself again. Go find a patch of grass to stand in barefoot, a stretch of sky, or a moment of still water. Let your nervous system recalibrate to something older, wiser, and quieter.
You’re due for a recharge, and the plug is waiting right outside your door.
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The Best Home on the Market This Week
Here’s a special listing that caught my eye that I think you should consider if you’re in the market. I’m prioritizing quality, soul, and a space that truly speaks.
Listed by Nick Gavin, Ugo Rossino and Allie Fraza
23 West 12th Street
$12,500,000 9 Beds / 8 Baths Greenwich Village
Just off Lower Fifth Avenue, 23 West 12th Street stands as one of Greenwich Village’s most coveted townhouses: a 25-foot-wide, 7,000-square-foot canvas ready to be reimagined as a singular private residence.
Currently configured as three well-kept units: a triplex, an owner’s studio, and a duplex, this townhouse offers the rare chance to create a true Manhattan mansion in one of the city’s most storied blocks.
Across five expansive floors, soaring 10.5-foot ceilings, skylit upper levels, and six original fireplaces evoke historic charm, while a 40-foot garden and installed elevator shaft make modern luxury well within reach.
🔑 Best Features
- 25-foot width and ~7,000 SF of interior space, rare scale for the Village
- Sun-filled top floor with vaulted skylights and multiple outdoor spaces
- Lush 40-foot-deep garden with room for full outdoor kitchen + dining
- Six distinctive fireplaces and pre-installed elevator shaft
- Alternate single-family plan by MADE Architecture available for inspiration
Before you go…
🔎 This dinner blends Scorsese-style drama with SNL energy.
👀 NYC’s youngest visionaries take over The Met!
🚶🏽Who would trade a coffee run for a Sunrise Yoga Walk? (this Saturday)
🏃🏽 Think The Amazing Race, Central Park edition.
🕺🏽 Let’s head downtown to the East Village for a dance party!
🏗️ Midtown’s next megatower is officially a go.
🏘️ What city just claimed the top spot as America’s leading hidden housing gem?
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