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They’re a major selling point� but some buildings’ gyms sell a bit harder than others.

Brokers visit three big-city dorm rooms and size up their value on the condo market.

Every single apartment for sale, from Wooster Street to just shy of the East River.

A robber baron’s baroque ballroom lives on as a pied-à-terre.

Down the street from your place, another new condominium tower just sold out. Where on earth are all these people coming from? We found out.

Kicked out of her rental.

In this page’s regular �Triple Assessment� feature, we ask three brokers to tour an apartment and size up its asking price. Often, they come up with very different numbers from the owner’s. But when the pros declare something overpriced, are they right? We revisited five properties to see what sold�and for how much.

Lincoln Center Renter.

Who hasn’t put a hand to that freshly painted wall and wondered, Who used to live here? Every dwelling is saturated with past lives, some mundane, some extraordinary. We have ten pages of the latter, a look at the apartments of New Yorkers from James Dean in his humble West Side digs to the Steinbergs in full Reagan-era opulence.

An art collector adds steam of a different sort to the locker room of an old Y.