Mixed-use development projects have become part of New York’s cityscape in recent years. But now developer Douglas Durst is taking that concept to new heights.
Mr. Durst is co-developer of a project on West 31st Street where demolition crews are clearing the way for a 58-story skyscraper that will have three separate lobbies: one for Read More
Late on the afternoon of Dec. 7, an 11-person jury on the 21st floor of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse handed World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein a courtroom verdict that could add over $1 billion to his available rebuilding funds. And for a night at least, it seemed, the keys to the Read More
“I’m not very good at talking to people that I don’t know, which sounds weird. I’m not really into that whole artificial-conversation thing,” said Damien Fahey, 24. It was Wednesday, Nov. 17, and Mr. Fahey’s 6-foot-2 frame was folded into a booth at John’s Pizzeria in Hell’s Kitchen, not far from his 18-by-12-foot studio apartment. Read More
When a reporter recently challenged City Hall’s proposal to build a football stadium on the West Side, Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff had a simple, business-like reply.
“Well, we’re going to build it,” Mr. Doctoroff snapped, as though the matter were closed.
Mr. Doctoroff, deputy mayor for economic development, has good reason to be confident-in Read More
What’s the point of having a front group if you can’t stay behind the curtain?
That’s the question that the West Side Stadium opponents over at the New York Association for Better Choices have been asking since Nov. 12, when they opened their newspapers to find that their main financial backer, Cablevision chief executive James Read More
In the Jets’ first-ever television ad for the team’s planned stadium, to be built atop the West Side rail yards, the narrator says in a dreamy tone: “Neglected industrial areas around the rail pit will be transformed into new waterfront parkland.”
It sounded good: Who could be against turning derelict rail yards into parks?
Was anything timeless inside the New York Times Building? Not the gray metal desks. Times veterans of a certain age remember those gray metal desks, rows of them, with manual typewriters clattering atop them-the fabled, bygone city room. But Times veterans of another age remember the wood ones, with the brass spittoons around them. The Read More
City Council Speaker Gifford Miller is charging that the city’s Olympic bid committee may be acting beyond its authority by potentially putting taxpayers on the hook for billions of dollars should New York be awarded the 2012 Summer Games.
The challenge comes in the wake of unsuccessful efforts by City Council member Letitia James of Read More
Standing before a crowd of high-school students that had been nicely primed—the students leaped to their feet as they watched gymnasts Paul and Morgan Hamm execute simultaneous back-flips—the last thing Mayor Bloomberg expected was a razzing.
By half the auditorium.
Nevertheless, for a good 20 seconds at A. Philip Randolph High School in Harlem Read More
The men’s room of the New York Hilton was thick with cheap men’s cologne. Standing at a urinal was a tiny old man in a big suit, who seemed to disappear into the depths of the porcelain, a wisp of white hair flowing off his little head. Mickey Freeman, who played Private Zimmerman on Sergeant Read More
