Artifact — Real Estate Development, Harlem
Real estate development — Manhattan, NY

Better block by block.

Artifact develops, builds and operates apartments, suites and workspaces in Manhattan — designed to improve the neighborhoods where we operate, not rebrand them.

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Jazz on a Harlem street
Real estate development — Manhattan, NY

Better block by block.

Artifact develops, builds and operates apartments, suites and workspaces in Harlem and Lower Manhattan — designed to improve the neighborhood, not rebrand it.

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Our approach

Great neighborhoods are our product. Building strong communities is our business model.

Projects / Harlem

Recent work.

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Opportunity Zones

A decade in Harlem’s Opportunity Zones.

We have been building in Hamilton Heights and Manhattanville for nearly ten years. Our pipeline of $100MM+ in qualified projects pairs local expertise with the program’s tax benefits.

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About — Artifact

We make good neighborhoods great.

Artifact develops, builds and operates housing in Manhattan — branded rentals, legal furnished suites and community workspace. Good design, careful planning and real neighborhood involvement.

Wherever we can, we take part in city, state and federal programs that add affordable housing, bring in fresh-food grocers and community facilities.

Artifact as a business

Develop. Build. Operate.

We are a vertically integrated developer and operator. We design and build every project, and our own brands lease and run what we build. One team controls cost, schedule and quality from acquisition to operation and beyond.

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The opportunity

Two supply gaps. One platform.

Rental housing — Artifact Living Manhattan builds condos, not rentals. Most new mid-sized rental supply moved to Brooklyn leaving Manhattan underserved with fresh housing stock. West Harlem sits between three anchor campuses with little new product, and 421a / 485x abatements make white-collar workforce rentals work.
Short-stay lodging — Artifact Stays Local Law 18 changed the market.

More than 80,000 Airbnb listings disappeared virtually overnight when New York City banned short-term rentals of entire apartments in most residential buildings. Today, these rentals are permitted only in legally authorized hotel and transient-use properties. Yet demand remains strong. Families and groups still want the space, privacy, full kitchens, and living areas that traditional hotels rarely provide.

We meet that demand by developing apartment-style accommodations in buildings legally approved for transient occupancy—delivering the experience travelers want within New York City’s regulatory framework.

Pipeline by delivery

13 deliveries through 2032.

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What makes a great neighborhood
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The Artifact ecosystem

We build in clusters.

Our residential buildings sit within a few blocks of each other, so they support each other. Long-time neighbors and Artifact Living residents share the same buildings, amenities and programming.

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Map of Artifact buildings in Hamilton Heights, Sugar Hill and Harlem Washington Heights Sugar Hill Hamilton Heights Manhattanville Harlem Hudson River Harlem River Artifact Living Artifact Stays Explore the map →
Why Harlem

Four reasons.

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Our Brands

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Brand 01 — Rentals

Artifact Living

Condo-quality rentals in Harlem that combine character with professional management

From restored brownstones to new ground-up buildings in West Harlem, Artifact Living is built for professionals, faculty and uptown students

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Brand 02 — Furnished suites

Artifact Stays

A furnished apartment with hotel legality.

More than 80,000 Airbnb listings disappeared virtually overnight when New York City banned short-term rentals of entire apartments in most residential buildings. Today, these rentals are permitted only in legally authorized hotel and transient-use properties.

Yet demand remains strong. Families and groups still want the space, privacy, full kitchens, and living areas that traditional hotels rarely provide.

We meet that demand by developing apartment-style accommodations in buildings legally approved for transient occupancy—delivering the experience travelers want within New York City’s regulatory framework.

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Rendering of Artifact Stays No. 224, Centre Street
Open office at The Harlem Collective
Brand 03 — Co-working

Collective Spaces

Community co-working for creative locals.

Collective Spaces is the parent brand of The Harlem Collective, with two locations: the original, operating at 1850 Amsterdam Avenue since 2020, and 116 Edgecombe Avenue, opening in 2027. Start-ups, writers, professionals and artists rent a desk or an office or a studio. Many community groups meet here free.

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← Our brands Platform 02 — Artifact Stays · October 2026

A furnished apartment with hotel legality and hotel service.

10 Local Law 18-compliant furnished-suite buildings across Harlem and Lower Manhattan. One operating, eight underway, two in contract. Built by our own GC, run like a hotel.

01 — The opportunity

Families still want a whole apartment. Now it has to be a legal one.

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The law changed the market. Local Law 18 removed the illegal Airbnb apartment. Entire-unit short stays are now legal only in Class B / hotel buildings.
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Demand did not go away. Families, groups, relocations and production crews still need kitchens and living rooms — not two hotel rooms.
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Almost no one supplies it. Hotels sell rooms. Artifact Stays builds furnished 1–3 bedroom suites in hotel-class buildings, legally, and runs them like a hotel.
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We already know how to build it. Our own GC builds every suite to the Artifact Living finish standard. Conversions use historic and ICAP credits.
Rendering of Artifact Stays No. 224, Centre Street
02 — The product
Restored parlor at No. 467, West 147th Street
Uptown — Brownstones

Historic brownstones like No. 467 keep their mantels and moldings and gain hotel-grade kitchens, baths and systems.

No. 75, 75 Essex Street, Lower East Side
Downtown — Landmark scale

Nos. 75 and 224 convert landmark-scale buildings into 1–3 bedroom suites. Every suite sleeps a family or group in a real living room.

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03 — Portfolio

10 buildings. 6 conversions, 4 ground-up.

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04 — Go-live timeline

From 1 building to 10 by 2032.

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Projects / Manhattan

Development projects

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The collection

Artifact Art

We collect contemporary painting and sculpture from artists working across Europe, Latin America and the United States — bought from galleries and studios in Madrid, Budapest, Copenhagen, London and New York. Every work hangs in one of our buildings: in lobbies, stairwells and shared rooms, for the people who live and work there.

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Artifact × Opportunity Zones

Invest where we build.

Opportunity Zones reward long-term investment in designated census tracts. Artifact has developed in and around Harlem’s zones for nearly a decade.

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How the benefits work

Three tax advantages for reinvested capital gains.

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Source: Economic Innovation Group · IRS FAQ. Not tax advice.

Columbia University Manhattanville campus
Zone — Manhattanville

300,000+ sf in the zone.

Our Manhattanville pipeline spans residential, mixed-use and co-working space. It sits beside Columbia University’s new campus — a long-running driver of neighborhood growth and rents.

We are also active in the Hamilton Heights zone. Qualified investors can put capital gains to work in socially responsible development.

Team — Artifact

Local builders. Global experience.

A small team of developers, architects and project managers — and the partners who build with us.

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Core partners

Who we build with.

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