While The Observer might be as guilty as anyone for promoting a “here’s your hat, what’s your hurry?” attitude towards the Jehovah’s Witness’ inevitable departure from the site of their global headquarters in Brooklyn Heights, it seems we’re not alone, and it also seems that this atitude is beginning to irk the famously media shy religious organization. Read More
Your first peek inside the ongoing renovations inside MSG. [Curbed]
TriBeCa’s getting a much-needed stoplight. [DNAinfo]
Apparently, by not being watched over by state agencies, Bruce Ratner is pocketing some nice coin at Atlantic Yards. [AY Report]
But he might need to help new ownership pick a new name for the Nets (a suggestion we seem to remember having heard somewhere before). [Daily News]
Here’s a nice day for a commercial developer, three Chelsea sites for $33 million. [TheRealDeal]
An expert’s take on soundproofing your windows. [BrickUnderground]
Gowanus neighborhood group to receive preservation award, but we’re asking if maybe less preserving and more cleaning should be going on down there. [PardonMeForAsking]
Let this one sink in: Not building light rail infrastructure will cost state governments more than just building it. [StreetsBlog]
Have you ever seen one of those web videos where a person lays down at the edge of an airport runway and gets lifted off the ground by the force of the plane’s engines?
Well, one Queens developer might just find out if that can work for an entire building… Read More
While Italian amusement conglomerate Zamperla might not have egg on its face today, it very well might be filthy with zeppole. Read More
Another South Slope “sex fiend” captured. [Brooklyn Paper]
Only in New York would somebody complain about planting too many trees. [NY Times]
Be careful suburbanites! Felonious crime is up a whopping 40% on the commuter rails this year. [NY Post]
If you want to rent in West Soho or Tribeca, you better be rolling deep in the checkbook department. [Crain's]
Things are so tense between pedestrians and bikers on the Brooklyn Bridge that the cops have been called. Permanently. [Brooklyn Paper]
Saddest signs of gentrification? Shops holding funerals for their closings. Sure, the hot dogs were good, but COME ON. [DNAinfo]
Nothing like a cigar metaphor to encapsulate the New York real estate market. [Crain's]
Homebuilders are feeling better. [Daily News]
Inside Williamsburg’s first boutique hotel. [Brownstoner]
More baby steps for Willets Point. [NY Times]
What it takes to transform an old Tribeca warehouse into a home worthy of gods and masters of the universe. [ArchPaper]
“Not so fast on those Washington Heights towers” says CB12. [Curbed]
Some experts have made demands to rewrite NYC’s zoning rules… rules that were written in 1969. [StreetsBlog]
So much for kids and dogs taking over Brownstone Brooklyn—no dogs allowed in Brooklyn Bridge Park. [DumboNY]
A closer look at those (micro-economically ingenious) food festivals in Queens and Brooklyn. [WNYC]
Good news for Occupy-haters, Batman is on his way. [DNAinfo]
One legendary Brooklyn bakery is opening a huge new space… in Newark. [TheRealDeal]
Brooklyn Heights is one of America’s “10 Most Beautiful Neighborhoods.” [Travel+Leisure]
Which is confusing when you see that 5 of Brooklyn’s most expensive apartments are in one Park Slope building. [Brownstoner]
Thanks to one man, the former site of H&H Bagels will carry on it’s nosh-worthy tradition. [DNAinfo]
Bad news for the National economy, Good news for larry Silverstein(?); the Federal Government is scaling back on its needs for office space. [Crain's]
Now here is a home that would provide the perfect setting for you to tell those filthy hippies down at “Occupy Wall Street” to eat some cake.
Who else but Sotheby’s could have wrangled this $18 million, 3 bedroom, 4 and 2-half bath, duplex at 770 Park Avenue ? Read More
It’s down to Cornell and Stanford in the race to build a graduate school on Roosevelt Island. [NY Times]
Protestors or not, Brookfield is doubling down downtown. [Journal]
East Siders still bashing Related over playground grab. [DNAinfo]
“Occupy Brooklyn” was a bit sparsely attended, but they proudly got Beep Marty Markowitz to show (but don’t ruin it by telling them that he goes to everything). [Brooklyn Paper]
Is “Occupy Lincoln Center” next? [NY Post]
New study shows that if you’re flying into the NYC area, you’ll be getting in later than you would anywhere else. [NY Post]
Is the safe choice the right choice for new MTA head honcho? [Daily News]
They said it would never wok, but the new state of East River ferries are proving “them” wrong. [NY Times]
How Larry Silverstein landed his last lease at 7 World Trade Center [Journal]
Now that’s art! Recreating the stench of 1861 Greenpoint. [Brooklyn Paper]
Building an AIDS memorial in Greenwich Village. [NY Times]
Rent cop cracks down on phony subletters. [NY Post]
A foreclosed Chelsea lot is going up for public auction. [TheRealDeal]
New York is now mapping its bike accidents online. [Voice]
And the construction approval process will be virtual, too. [Crain's]
BAM is ready to break ground in it’s resurrection of Downtown’s Strand Theater. [Brownstoner]
You know how we know that a new bike lane made Columbus Ave. safer? Science. That’s how. [StreetsBlog]
City Hall is officially going to bridge the gap on the East Side greenway. [DNAinfo]
Are lofts the new luxury condo? [Curbed]
One Brooklyn Heights building has a facade of such rare construction that it needed experts to restore it. Experts from Romania. [Brooklyn Eagle]
Here are two phrases you don’t often see together; “Tappan Zee Bridge” and “Fast Tracked.” [NY Times]
A glass house of a sort. [Journal]
The wireless revolution is coming to Brooklyn’s great outdoors. [Brownstoner]
Rent-controlled tenants facing eviction are quite literally making a federal case out of it. [Daily News]
Lookin’ gooood there, Brooklyn real estate market. [Journal]
OMG cute coffee? That’s so Brooklyn. [NY Times]
More Wall Street layoffs are looming menacingly on the horizon, says seemingly terrified State Comptroller. [NY Post]
Financing is a done deal for a new Harlem cultural center. [Crain's]
“Occupy Brooklyn” you say? Well, it’s apparently gonna happen. Greeeeeeat. [Brooklyn Paper]
A plan is afoot at the DOT to do away with “Off Duty” lights on cabs. This, we like. [NY Times]
Maid fight! (On the UES, of course). [NY Post]
The housing authority is moving into a space it helped gentrify. [NY Times]
