Bond New York’s Margaret Garvey at the Plymouth House at 235 East 87th Street

From the February issue: The couple’s budget was reasonable: a one-bedroom apartment in a doorman building on the Upper East Side for about $650,000. But they didn’t want to face a brick wall, take on major renovations or pay more than $2,000 a month in maintenance costs. And after several months of hunting, they had come up empty-handed. “We were stuck — there wasn’t anything there,” their broker, Bond New York’s Margaret Garvey, told The Real Deal. [more]