Tuesday: Billy Joel in Brooklyn, Zaha Hadid on NY

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:18:12 -0400

Zaha Hadid plays nice, pleasantly conversing about the future of architecture. Eventually she cracks and says things like: Paris is "beautiful, but it has no energy." At the grand finale she somehow acknowledges the possibility of seeing her work in twenty years and gasping: "Oh, my goodness, this is really irritating." (New York Magazine)

The FBI informs us that New York City's crime rate fell while the nation's numbers rose. But prospective New Yorkers beware: our robbery stats don't look so good--plus, we turn out to be the second-least generous folks in the country. (AP, via Crane's)

New York lawmakers try their very best to get generous: a $1 billion property tax relief plan is passed, although it happens to be similar to the one "scuttled" by George "Prez" Pataki earlier this year. (The New York Times)

Listen to William Zeckendorf talk about his billion dollar baby: 15 Central Park West. And there's more: he even chats about the overall NY condo market. (The Real Deal Podcast)

Billy Joel and his eighteenth wife visit the Brooklyn Heights townhouse that first went on the market for a borough record-setting $20 million. Luckily the price has since fallen to $16 and then $12.9 million. ("We are not coming down from here," swears Corcoran broker Deanna Kory.) (New York Daily News)

Over at the Freedom Tower construction site, so far things are going just perfectly (seismologically speaking). (The New York Times)

- Max Abelson

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Tuesday: Billy Joel in Brooklyn, Zaha Hadid on NY