Posted by in New York on 08 30th, 2010 | No Comments
Paterson Signs "Bedbug Disclosure Act" Into Law
Paterson Signs "Bedbug Disclosure Act" Into Law
Rest well, residents of the #1 and/or #7 city for bed bugs , because Governor Paterson just signed a law that will help protect you from the critters. Or it just may make you want to move out altogether. The governor just signed New York State Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal’s “Bedbug...
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Posted by in New York on 08 28th, 2010 | No Comments
DOH: 80% Of City’s Restaurants Aren’t Gross
DOH: 80% Of City’s Restaurants Aren’t Gross
Via the Department of Health According to new data from the Department of Health, about 80% of the 250 restaurants that underwent the city’s new sanitary inspections (which require grades to be posted for all customers to see ) have passed, with 49% getting A grades and 31% getting B grades. Dr....
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Posted by in New York on 08 25th, 2010 | No Comments
New Yorkers Are The Most "Efficient" Cell Phone Users
New Yorkers Are The Most "Efficient" Cell Phone Users
A new national analysis of cell phone usage based on wireless bills has revealed that New Yorkers talk for a lot less time on the phone than you’d imagine. New York ranks 15th in the nation for total number of calls, but is nearly last for the duration of its conversations. “The data support...
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Posted by in New York on 08 25th, 2010 | No Comments
15 Penn Plaza Approved By City Council Subcommittees
15 Penn Plaza Approved By City Council Subcommittees
Members of key City Council subcommittees gave the proposed 15 Penn Plaza building their full approval —all 1,216 feet of it. Though a full City Council vote is expected later in the day, the votes signal that the project will be moving forward as planned, regardless of ESB owner Anthony Malkin’s...
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Posted by in New York on 08 6th, 2010 | No Comments
NYC Sees First West Nile Case Of Season
NYC Sees First West Nile Case Of Season
Photo via ghurcomb’s flickr In July the Department of Health had already detected West Nile virus in city mosquitoes in three of the boroughs: Staten Island, Queens and Brooklyn. Now they’re reporting the first human case of the virus for the season has occurred in the Bronx; a 61-year-old...
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Posted by in New York on 08 5th, 2010 | No Comments
DOB Official Apprehends Wife Beater On Grand Central Parkway
DOB Official Apprehends Wife Beater On Grand Central Parkway
Yesterday, the Department of Buildings’ Deputy Commissioner for Enforcement had to do some physical enforcing yesterday, when he spotted a man beating his wife on the Grand Central Parkway. According to the Daily News , “Deputy Commissioner Eugene Corcoran was driving by as Ameer Khairullah,...
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Posted by in New York on 07 30th, 2010 | No Comments
City Launches Interactive Map of Waterfront
City Launches Interactive Map of Waterfront
Today the Department of City Planning launched a pretty neat series of interactive maps covering the waterfront in all five boroughs. The maps include 224 publicly accessible waterfront spaces, comprising approximately 200 linear miles of shorefront public parks and other publicly accessible spaces...
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Posted by in Real Estate on 07 30th, 2010 | No Comments
Cool Map Thing: The awesome East River floating pool…
Cool Map Thing: The awesome East River floating pool…
The awesome East River floating pool might still be just a concept, but the city would like to remind you that there are other places to play in the water around here. As part of the Vision 2020 waterfront makeover plan, the Department of City Planning has unveiled an interactive waterfront access map...
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Posted by in New York, Real Estate on 07 30th, 2010 | No Comments
Greed is Good: Wall Street 2’s High Roller Penthouse Hits the Market for $15M
Greed is Good: Wall Street 2’s High Roller Penthouse Hits the Market for $15M
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. In April the New York Times outed the penthouse at 31 West 21st Street as the apartment cast as the crash pad for Shia LaBeouf’s banker character in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps , the sequel to Oliver Stone’s 1987 classic. The brokers...
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Posted by in Real Estate on 07 30th, 2010 | No Comments
Quicklisting: Upper East Side, $3.2M
Quicklisting: Upper East Side, $3.2M
5 BR, 4 BA Co-op Asking: $3,200,000 | Spacious Layout 1 Gracie Terrace, 11/12F/11G [Stribling] The rest is here: Quicklisting: Upper East Side, $3.2M
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