It’s an old story that’s been told countless times since the recession began: bad economies breed conflict. Yet, it continues to amuse!
The Real Deal, in a bit of fun bottom-fishing, has released a top-10 list of New York real estate conflicts. Number one? Community-center-near-Ground-Zero developer Sharif El-Gamal—exclusively profiled in The New York Observer—versus Read More
TJ Maxx is said to be pondering a store on Wall Street. (NYP)
Up for year-round beach living in New York? Here’s a guide. (WSJ)
Carl Paladino: The madman Buffalo developer who may be the GOP’s nominee for governor. (NYT)
Slot machines: a troubled lifeline for a dying horse racing industry. (Read More
Did Doctoroff’s promises amount to anything? A review of the former deputy mayor’s economic development record. (City Limits)
West End Avenue proposed historic district coming as soon as next month. (ArchPaper)
Looking for a grocery store: 11 Broadway, a Williamsburg development that’s now un-stalled. (Curbed)
Roosevelt Island may get less dreary-looking retail. Read More
The Citizens Housing and Planning Council of New York today sent out its latest update of New York City metro area housing numbers, compared with other major metro areas, and, per a chart, it looks like New York is continuing to outpace housing sector growth in much of the country.
A whole chronology can be Read More
The slowly dissipating fallout from the monster Stuyvesant Town rent regulations court ruling of 2009 has hit Larry Gluck and his Independence Plaza in Tribeca.
Per Crain’s, a state judge ruled yesterday that Mr. Gluck’s Stellar Management was at fault for taking units out of rent stabilization in the 1,300-unit complex, given Read More
Condo at 1055 Park hopes third time’s the charm re: marketing. (TRD)
Cushman & Wakefield not losing as much money as before. (TRD)
Fox News does Brooklyn. (Gothamist)
Hudson Square’s new solar-powered hotel. Our sun as a marketing weapon. (Curbed)
$15K a month in Brooklyn Heights. (Brownstoner)
Ever wondered if your landlord is a slumlord?
Now you can know.
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio (profiled by The Observer in June), has created a Web site at www.pubadvocate.nyc.gov/landlord-watchlist — to be launched at some point today — that allows visitors to search a database of slumlords. According to the Daily Read More
The always charming Andrea Peyser devotes the majority of her New York Post column today to the Brooklyn hot-button topic du jour, the Prospect Park geese.
The issue, for those–to evoke another bird species–who bury their heads in the sand, centers on the hundreds of Prospect Park geese who used to reside at the Prospect Read More
The far West Side emerges as a neighborhood. Sort of. (NYT)
The 9/11 memorial got its first trees. (NYP)
State Senate Democrats take, then return, campaign contributions from Wal-Mart. (NYP)
A new skyline emerges–or at least prepares to emerge. (WSJ)
Hotelier Sant Singh Chatwal, battered by the bust, wants 100 hotels Read More
On Third Avenue in East Village, a rezoning aimed at halting the NYUs of the world. (Capital New York)
Seth Pinsky at the EDC wants to see your innovative business plan. (NYC EDC)
Too much synthetic turf in our parks? (City Limits)
The state is eyeing tunnels to replace part of the Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
