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CurbedWire: Soho Building Site Reactivated; Famed FSBO Gets a Broker
CurbedWire: Soho Building Site Reactivated; Famed FSBO Gets a Broker
SOHO— Plans were revealed a little while back for the empty corner lot at Broadway and Howard Street, formerly a flea market and Banksy canvas. But there’s been a while bunch of silence at 433 Broadway , keeping us from a seven-story commercial building with an off-white aluminum facade....
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Posted by in New York, Real Estate on 09 2nd, 2010 | No Comments
Linkage: Former Whitney President Sells for $4 Million Off; More!
Linkage: Former Whitney President Sells for $4 Million Off; More!
[Brooklyn's latest funky facade, via 'Stoner ] · Former Whitney Museum President Robert Hurst sells Fifth Ave pad for $4M off [NYO] · Latest funky facade finishing up on Brooklyn’s Windsor Place ['Stoner] · Manhattan co-op maintenance charges up 19 percent this year [Matrix] ·...
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PriceSpotter: Big Reveal: Pricing an Amenity-Rich Greenwich Village Condop
PriceSpotter: Big Reveal: Pricing an Amenity-Rich Greenwich Village Condop
And now, the results of this week’s PriceSpotter asking price guessing game! Location: 60 East 8th Street #27B Asking: $1,359,000 A few oh-so-close guesses this week, folks, with $1.2M also a popular price choice. Despite the accurate appraisals, the feedback was mostly negative for this NYUville...
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Zombie Buildings: Buyers Come Back to Harlem Arrested Development The Lore
Zombie Buildings: Buyers Come Back to Harlem Arrested Development The Lore
Even up on Harlem’s Gold Coast, there have been a few pockets of pyrite over the last few years. One of those appeared to be 114th Street’s Gateway and its 112th Street sibling The Lore . The Gateway has stalled a few times over the last three years, and the Lore stopped construction when...
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Stuy Town Sweepstakes: A packed courtroom hoped to see…
Stuy Town Sweepstakes: A packed courtroom hoped to see…
A packed courtroom hoped to see who would walk away with control of Stuyvesant Town today, but the judge didn’t have a flair for the dramatic, and postponed his ruling . Now a decision is expected sometime this month on whether high-flying hedgie Bill Ackman can foreclose on the property, or whether...
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PriceChopper: Non-Celeb Seller Fails to Find a Buyer at One Beacon Court
PriceChopper: Non-Celeb Seller Fails to Find a Buyer at One Beacon Court
Boldface names have it easy at One Beacon Court , where Bobby Abreu , Flavio Briatore , and movie producer Joe Roth have all walked away from their apartments with tidy profits in recent months. But things aren’t going so well for the non-celeb residents of #43C , who paid $2,723,818 for their...
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Rupert Murdoch Loves A "Fat Pig"
Rupert Murdoch Loves A "Fat Pig"
When you’re done reading the Lindsay Lohan cover story, you can also read about Rupert Murdoch vs. Arthur Sulzberger media war in Vanity Fair. According to a summary of the story , VF reporter Sarah Ellison spoke to Andrew Neil, who was editor of Murdoch’s Sunday Times. Neil says, “Americans...
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Hurricane Earl Heads Closer, Tropical Storm Watch In Effect
Hurricane Earl Heads Closer, Tropical Storm Watch In Effect
A man fishing off a pier in North Carolina today (AP) New York City, Long Island, and southern Westchester County are under a tropical storm watch , which means we could see 39- to 73 mile per hour winds, as Hurricane Earl heads closer to the U.S.. Winds of 100 mph are expected to hit the Outer Banks...
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Posted by in New York on 09 1st, 2010 | No Comments
Bloomberg’s Meetings With Obama, Biden Start Rumor Mill
Bloomberg’s Meetings With Obama, Biden Start Rumor Mill
Are Biden and Bloomberg walking and talking ? Page Six claims that Mayor Bloomberg is being wooed by President Obama to join his team at the White House: Building upon the mayor’s golf outing with the Commander in Chief on Martha’s Vineyard last Friday, “Now there are whispers that...
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Posted by in New York on 09 1st, 2010 | No Comments
Update Gunman Shot At Discovery Channel HQ
Update Gunman Shot At Discovery Channel HQ
Via Update, 5:15 p.m. : DCist reports that Lee was shot. Here’s what Montgomery County Police Chief Tom Manger said, “He took three people hostage, near the lobby area of the entrance to the building. Over the past several hours, we’ve been in negotiations with the man. Approximately...
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