October 29, 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
🪩 A New Era for the Ball Drop
Times Square just got its groove back. After a full-scale reinvention, One Times Square is stepping into the future as a 21-story immersive destination anchored by a brand-new, larger Waterford Crystal ball. For the first time ever, you can actually touch the icon, book a guided tour, step out onto glass balconies, and stand face-to-face with the glowing symbol of New Year’s Eve itself. This year’s design, the “Infinite Edition,” swaps sharp triangles for 5,280 handcrafted circular crystals symbolizing Infinite Joy, Infinite Light, and Infinite Beginnings. And if you’re feeling bold, the premium “Ball Experience” lets you swap one of 2025’s crystals for your own Morse-coded message that will light up the skyline for 2026. Add in Ever Vow’s skyline micro-weddings, iCandy NYC’s neon dessert playground, and the soon-to-open Times Travel ride through NYC history, and this might just be the reboot Times Square always needed. Respectfully, I’m not sure I’m going to venture there, but does this move the needle for you?
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NYC Insider: What’s Happening This Week
🎭 The Village Halloween Parade Returns
Get your costumes ready, New York. The world’s largest Halloween parade is back this Friday, turning Greenwich Village into the city’s most creative street party.
Now in its 52nd year, the Village Halloween Parade draws over 80,000 marchers and 2 million spectators, filling Sixth Avenue with puppets, live bands, dancers, and pure downtown energy.
This year’s theme, “Potluck,” celebrates community, creativity, and connection. Think surreal dinner party meets street carnival, where you are the dish. Expect pop-up “tables,” comfort-food couture, and plenty of over-the-top spectacle.
Parade Details:
📅 Friday, October 31 | 🕖 7–11 PM
📍 Route: Sixth Ave from Canal St → 15th St
👻 Join: Free to march (costumes required) — lineup starts 6:30 PM at Canal & Sixth
📺 Watch: Live on NY1, 8–9:30 PM
A beloved NYC tradition since 1973, the parade remains a symbol of the city’s resilience and wild imagination. So…who’s going and what are you wearing?
Weekly Gem 💎
What’s Meant for You Can’t Miss You
We spend so much time trying to force what’s not ready, rushing doors that aren’t meant to open yet. But divine timing doesn’t bend to impatience, it bends to alignment.
Sometimes the pause is the protection. Sometimes the delay is the design.
You can’t mess up what’s meant for you. You can only delay your peace by trying to micromanage the magic.
I’ve been spending a lot of time with my Tarot and Oracle cards and my readings kept echoing the same thing: “Trust. Stop trying to micromanage the universe!”
This week, loosen your grip. Trust the orchestration. You don’t have to chase what’s already making its way to you.
Let what’s for you, recognize you, in stillness.
And when it arrives, you’ll know, it’ll fit like a glove.
Family: If my weekly gem isn’t enough, I’m Broadcasting from the Bright Side every day. If you need encouragement, a place to be heard, or someone to remind you of your greatness, please call me at 646.699.3969. You’re not alone. I got you.
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 Jessica Buchman, Bryan Rettaliata, Susanna Studwell and Hannah Simpson
280 Washington Avenue
$9,375,000 7 Beds / 6 Baths, 2 Half Baths Clinton Hill
🏛️ The Pfizer Mansion: Clinton Hill’s Crown Jewel Returns
Brooklyn royalty, reborn. Commanding its corner on Washington Avenue, The Pfizer Mansion blends 19th-century craftsmanship with quiet modern luxury. Built in 1887 for Charles Erhart, Pfizer’s cofounder, the Queen Anne landmark has lived many lives, each layer restored with reverence. Eight fireplaces, inlaid floors, and an original Otis elevator speak to its legacy, while hidden indulgences like a sunken speakeasy, temperature-controlled wine cellar, and de Gournay-wrapped baths whisper to its present. Historic, cinematic, and unapologetically grand. This home has been on-and-off the market for a few years now, let’s see if the time has come for its new owner.
🔑 Best Features
- 10,000+ SQFT of redefined grandeur across five stories and seven bedrooms
- 105-foot parlor level with formal salons, dining room, and a rear kitchen extension wrapped in curved glass and custom copper
- Private garden sanctuary by Rees Roberts + Partners – mature plantings, wisteria pergola, and total privacy
- Private carport + approved carriage house design by Kelly Murdock Solon, AIA, with Landmark sign-off
- Restoration by Robert Silman Associates, preserving architectural integrity with all-new systems and sustainable upgrades
Before you go…
🎨 Monet + Venice = New York’s largest museum show in over 25 years.
🎃This place will scare the shit out of you for Halloween.
🚄 A cool $100 can get you the most scenic train ride from NYC to New Orleans. Po’Boys anyone?
🥕 Visit the places in NYC where kale and cool coexist.
🌲 Looks like this year’s Rockefeller tree has roots upstate.
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