"If the house is the Kips Bay show house, I think it makes a substantial difference, " he said.

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The winning proposal will form the basis for a mixed-income rental building in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan consisting of micro-units.

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Take the 20-plus-room neo-Federal brick mansion on Park Avenue that Kips Bay featured this year, owned by real estate developer Sherman Cohen and his wife, Gloria.

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