Posted by in New York on 08 30th, 2010 | No Comments
Get Ready For A New Skyline
Get Ready For A New Skyline
Renderings of 1 World Trade Center, 15 Penn Plaza, and the Beekman Tower during construction in June. Anthony Malkin may have spent most of last week bitching about the City Council-approved 15 Penn Plaza project, but as he said in an ad taken out in the New York Times last week, “There will be...
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Posted by in New York on 08 23rd, 2010 | No Comments
City Council Will Hear 15 Penn Plaza Proposal Today
City Council Will Hear 15 Penn Plaza Proposal Today
Left, 15 Penn Plaza rendering (Via The Architect’s Newspaper ); Right, the full-page New York Times ad against the proposal (Jen Chung/Gothamist) The Zoning and Franchises Subcommittee is holding a hearing to vote on a proposal about 15 Penn Plaza, the controversial new development that the folks...
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Posted by in New York on 08 23rd, 2010 | No Comments
LIRR Service Suspended On Nearly Every Line
LIRR Service Suspended On Nearly Every Line
Let’s hope this gets cleared up by the evening commute: Long Island Rail Road service is suspended in both directions on ALL lines except Port Washington! According to Newsday , “The signal malfunction began at 10:40 a.m. and it was unclear when the problem would be resolved, according to...
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Posted by in New York on 08 20th, 2010 | No Comments
NJ Town Gadfly Killed, House Set On Fire
NJ Town Gadfly Killed, House Set On Fire
(1010 WINS) After battling a fire at a Teaneck, NJ home on Tuesday night, firefighters found the body of the owner, Joan Davis. Yesterday, it was determined that the 74-year-old was murdered and that the fire was set to cover up the killing. A neighbor told WABC 7, “Now that I hear it’s...
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Posted by in New York on 08 20th, 2010 | No Comments
Birth Control, Rent Delay St. Vincent’s Urgent Care Center
Birth Control, Rent Delay St. Vincent’s Urgent Care Center
Photograph of St. Vincent’s in May by luluinnyc | Amy Dreher on Flickr Nearly four months after the 160-year-old Greenwich Village hospital closed its doors , talks to open an urgent care clinic at St. Vincent’s have stalled over rent and…birth control. The NY Times spoke to officials...
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Posted by in New York on 08 17th, 2010 | No Comments
Charles Barron May Be On The State Ballot
Charles Barron May Be On The State Ballot
City Councilman Charles Barron says he has 43,000 signatures to get onto the statewide ballot in order to challenge the NY Democrats’ “all-white” slate. According to the Daily News, a triumphant Barron said of his new party, the Freedom Party, “This party is a black- and Latino-led...
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Posted by in Real Estate on 08 7th, 2010 | No Comments
Glenn Close Gets Close to Asking: Back in March, we reported…
Glenn Close Gets Close to Asking: Back in March, we reported…
Back in March, we reported some pricechopping action happening at Glenn Close’s apartment in the Beresford. Well, it seems the cut worked as the apartment sold for just under asking, at $10.2 Million (600k shy of the $10.8 ask). The 2,300 square foot apartment is on the 19th floor of the legendary...
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Posted by in New York on 07 30th, 2010 | No Comments
NYC Rally Against Arizona’s Immigration Law
NYC Rally Against Arizona’s Immigration Law
        With Arizona’s controversial immigration-enforcement law taking effect yesterday, hundreds participated in a New York City march and rally. According to City Room , the rally started with “about 30 people. But the crowd grew quickly as local groups like Vamos...
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Posted by in Real Estate on 07 30th, 2010 | No Comments
Relocations: City Room notes that the City…
Relocations: City Room notes that the City…
City Room notes that the City Council’s big Domino and Flushing Commons day was the first in its temporary new home (caused by the renovation of City Hall): the old Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank at 51 Chambers Street . Inset your own punchline: “Life could be worse: the Beaux-Arts building...
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Posted by in Real Estate on 07 29th, 2010 | No Comments
CurbedWire: Domino Construction to Start in 2011; 1BBP Sales Update
CurbedWire: Domino Construction to Start in 2011; 1BBP Sales Update
WILLIAMSBURG— Whew, those were some crazy years of controversy, but the City Council finally approved the New Domino project today , which will turn the old sugar refinery into a 2,200-unit village by the sea designed by architect Rafael Viñoly, among others. Village by the river. Whatever....
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