All deeds filed since 1966 for all boroughs except Staten Island are kept in an online format by the city's Finance Department on the Automated City Register Information System, or Acris.
No lawyers make a dollar on the deal, no deeds are filed, no easements granted.
Deed documents filed on Dec. 15 show that Ms. Khawly spent $3.75 million for an apartment on the 30th floor of the Museum Tower, a 58-story building erected in the 1980s next to the Museum of Modern Art.
The first word that a 20-foot-wide brownstone at 39 West 70th Street off Central Park West was on the market was when the deed was filed with the city on May 13 showing that the house had sold for $15 million.
Property records show that around this time, a deed was filed in the name of the temple.
THE Australian novelist Peter Carey sold a duplex condominium on Bedford Street in Greenwich Village this month for $2.45 million, according to a deed filed with the city.
And in Verona, the Oneidas paid $350,000 for 3.2 acres, according to a deed filed Dec. 10 in Oneida County.
No O'Rourke relative has lived there since 1920, a year after Mr. O'Rourke died, when Mr. O'Rourke's daughter sold the house for $5,300, according to a deed filed in City Hall.
Ms. Furman and her former husband, Jay Furman, a shopping mall developer, bought it for $147,500 in 1973, according to a deed filed with the city.
A LATIN American media heiress and her fiancé bought a 16-foot-7-inch-wide town house in Chelsea last month for just over $4 million, according to a deed filed with the city.
