City Modifies Harlem Project To Include More 'Affordable' Units
The city is modifying a real estate proposal in East Harlem, a few months after community opposition killed a $1 billion deal to redevelop about two city blocks with apartments, offices, stores, and a...
View ArticleCity Seeks Designers for Park on Governors Island
The city is moving to select a design team for a 40-acre public park, a two-mile waterfront promenade, and open space on Governors Island. Yesterday, a city-state agency, Governors Island Preservation...
View ArticleFoster Lauds East Side's 'Tradition of Radicalism'
Upper East Side residents who have been arguing over a proposed 22-story apartment building on Madison Avenue in a historic district brought their fight downtown yesterday for a fourhour public hearing...
View ArticleA Greening, of Sorts, Begins for the Brooklyn Navy Yard
After losing its anchor tenant in the mid-1980s, the Brooklyn Navy Yard struggled to be a viable center for manufacturing and industrial jobs. The number of tenants dwindled, and the physical plant...
View ArticleCity Set To Present Plan for Lower East Side
The renaissance of the East Village and Lower East Side during the past decade is one of the city's great success stories. But recently the area's growth has bumped head on into a lively spirit of...
View ArticleCity Will Soon Get Open Internet Listings of Real Estate
In a step toward opening up New York's real estate marketplace, the Real Estate Board of New York announced yesterday that it plans to launch a public Internet portal containing all the exclusive...
View ArticleA Gleaming Urban Glass House Astonishes Spring Street
Thirty years ago, there was a permanent fire burning in an old oil drum on the corner of Washington and Spring streets, a stone's throw from the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan. Longshoremen fueled the...
View ArticleMaverick Developer Plays Ball With City On Diamond District
Developer Gary Barnett of the Extell Development Company is seeking final approval for the city's plan to help pay for a facelift to the sagging Diamond District in Midtown. Tomorrow, the public is...
View ArticleGroundbreaking Imminent for New Mets Ballpark in Queens
Mets fans, some of whom likely have yet to fully dry their eyes after a heartbreaking loss in the seventh game of the National League Championship Series, will get to celebrate on Monday, at a...
View ArticleCouncil Member, Building Owner at Odds Over Landmarking
A building owner and a City Council member are squaring off over an upcoming landmarking battle on the Upper East Side. Most of the buildings in the City and Suburban Homes complex, which takes up an...
View ArticleA $1.5 Billion Vision For Coney Island
Even on a bright fall day, the streets that make up Coney Island's amusement district seem worn and tired, more tumbleweeds than tourists. While the area boasts an original circus-like charm, born of...
View ArticleRatner Project Could Soon Face Its Final Showdown
Before the end of the year, the fate of Atlantic Yards could fall into the hands of the Public Authorities Control Board, a once a little-known Albany bureaucratic backwater that has become something...
View ArticleCulture Group Gains Control of Park Ave. Armory as Neighbors Feud
Control of the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue was quietly transferred to a nonprofit organization Tuesday, a crucial step in its transformation from a neglected neighborhood eyesore into a...
View ArticleTrump Set To Gain Permits To Build in SoHo
The city is set to grant building permits to developer Donald Trump to construct a 45-story condominium hotel in SoHo, which would be the tallest building in the low-rise neighborhood between Midtown...
View ArticleAfter Compromise at Ground Zero, Silverstein Is in Acquisition Mode
Developer Larry Silverstein, who earlier this year agreed to surrender some of the 10 million square feet he controlled at or around ground zero, is back in acquisition mode in Lower Manhattan. The...
View ArticleSpeculation Buzzes on Possible Sale Of Municipal Building in Manhattan
Speculation is heating up that the Municipal Building, the soaring limestone landmark that overlooks City Hall, could be among the government real estate assets to be sold off and converted to...
View ArticleChambers Street Bursting With Luxury Residential Projects
Chambers Street, the bustling downtown commercial and civic thoroughfare, is exploding with luxury residential projects, as developers hunt for the last opportunities to capitalize on the edges of...
View ArticleScramble Is On For Real Estate Of Hospitals
The potential closure of several city hospitals is setting off a scramble by real estate developers hoping to convert the medical facilities into new condominiums and rental apartment buildings. The...
View ArticleRoss Predicts A 2008 Start For New MSG
A developer involved in the recently scuttled Moynihan Station project said he is confident that construction will soon begin on an even larger alternative plan that involves building a new Madison...
View ArticleLarge Share of Property Taxes Borne by Rentals, Report Says
New York City's arcane property tax system is increasingly favoring homeowners over the owners of rental apartment and commercial buildings, according to a report to be released today by the city's...
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