The city has changed its plan for downtown Brooklyn to eliminate the need to take a home on Duffield Street that had some connection to the Underground Railroad.
A spokeswoman for the city Law Department, Kate O’Brien Ahlers said in a statement,
"The city is pleased that this litigation was resolved in a Read More
Vornado Realty Trust will now pay four times as much for air rights over the Port Authority Bus Terminal than it would have under an earlier agreement abandoned four years ago, according to a deal announced today
“I’m sad,” Vornado’s Chairman and Chief Executive Steven Roth said after a press conference at the Read More
When City Councilman Hiram Monseratte said that land owners at Willets Point, Queens, did not think the city was engaged in “good faith negotiations” to relocate them, the president of the city’s Economic Development Corporation took the opportunity to give out his phone number.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if they tell you that,” Read More
People around the country seem to be having such a blast with these community benefits agreements–pacts between private groups and developers to provide affordable housing and other benefits–but in New York, they are turning out to be such chores. The one at Atlantic Yards has been faulted as a meek deal arranged behind closed Read More
One of the ongoing points of contention between civic organizations and the developers of the planned Moynihan Station complex is whether Madison Square Garden should be allowed to advertise on the Beaux-Arts façade of the Farley Post Office, which would serve as the Eighth Avenue entrance to the new arena. Today, a coalition of 17 Read More
Even the developers at a Municipal Art Society panel held Tuesday night seemed a little overwhelmed by the popularity of New York and its consequences—and these were developers, speaking on what could be called “Developers Night” in the series of programs held in conjunction with the Jane Jacobs exhibit.
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After floating a number of multibillion-dollar plans to expand the Javits Convention Center, the state’s economic development agency is considering a drastically scaled-down version that would renovate the existing building without creating any more exhibit space, according to individuals briefed on the plan.
Patrick Foye, the downstate chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation, Read More
After more than six months of searching for the perfect candidate for the job (and after three people had refused offers), an ombudsman for the Atlantic Yards project has finally been found: Forrest R. Taylor, a communications and government relations consultant who worked as chief of staff to former City Council Speaker Gifford Miller Read More
The fight for Harlem’s Victoria Theater began back in December of 2005, when 11 developers submitted bids to convert the shuttered vaudeville house into a mixed-use cultural building. The board of the Harlem Community Development Corporation, which was chaired at the time by Democratic Assemblyman Keith Wright, narrowed the choices down to two Read More
On Monday, as the City Planning Commission gave its nod to Columbia University, the school tried to give a little good news to West Harlem as well. Columbia promised to build another 160 housing units on its new campus to offset gentrification pressures its employees would bring to the surrounding neighborhood.
That Read More
