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By Matt Chaban 6/01 6:37pm

Planes Trains & Automobiles

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Destroying JFK to Fix It

So That’s Why They Tore Down the Sundrome: JetBlue’s New T5i and Why JFK Now Has Only Six Terminals

JFK will now have two missing terminals.

As The Observer and others have been lamenting for some time now, the day has passed for Jet Age JFK. Terminal 3 is being demolished to make way for more airplane parking to accommodate Delta’s expansion of Terminal 4. And now we learn that the same fate has befallen the Sundrome, which was unceremoniously destroyed last year, with no immediate plans for replacement. This leaves only the still-shuttered Terminal 5 as the last remnant of midcentury JFK.

And yet while a piece of architectural history may be gone, it could mean smoother flying for those in and out of JFK, which is really what the airport is all about. Read More

By Kim Velsey 6/01 4:48pm

Manhattan Transfers

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Buffett Pad

Berkshire Scion Peter Buffett Bails Out of One Madison for an Extra $750,000

Apparently, a high-rise Manhattan condo didn’t really suit Peter Buffett. The youngest son of the famously frugal, resolutely Midwestern clan of the Berkshire Hathaway chief  Warren Buffett has dumped his 18th-floor pad at 23 East 22nd Street for $4.25 million. The sale, which was previously reported by The New York Post, has finally hit city records.

Despite his hesitance to pass on financial advice or anything beyond a $90,000 inheritance to his children (the oracle of Omaha does not, reportedly, believe in inherited wealth), the elder Buffett obviously passed on some investing savoir faire. Read More

By Matt Chaban 6/01 4:36pm

The Neverending Story

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President Obama to Celebrate Flag Day at 1 World Trade Center

Air Force One was headed to Minnesota today, where the president was unveiling a new jobs program for veterans, but en route, the press office revealed that when President Obama visits New York in two weeks, the World Trade Center will be among his stops.

During a press gaggle on the flight, deputy press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters that the visit was scheduled to coincide with Flag Day. (Not mentioned: It would also coincide with a fundraiser that night at Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick’s West Village townhouse.) Read More

By Jessie Schiewe 6/01 3:24pm

Rocking the Suburbs

How suburban. (The Ktchn)

Just How Suburban Is Manhattan These Days?

Is New York City becoming more suburban? Or is that just what The New York Times wants you to think?

The Times was chock full of ‘burb-centric articles this past Thursday, but the two that stood out the most were Jesse McKinley’s swan song to urban Manhattan and Bob Tedeschi’s 1,272-word tale about resurfacing his wooden deck.

In “Visiting the Suburbs Without the Drive,” McKinley bemoans the current state of New York City, hinting at a (frightening) future where hatchback Chevies and flipping burger on the patio will become the norm. Read More

By Kim Velsey 6/01 2:09pm

Stratospheric Sales

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Full-Floor on Fifth

Just As We Were Running Out, Another $50 M. Listing Hits the Market

Rejoice all ye house hunters looking in the $50 million and above range!

For a while, it seemed that all hope was lost, what with the disappearance of the Courtney Sale Ross mammoth at 740 Park, the Teddy Forstmann whopper at 2 East 70th Street and the $77.5 million Ritz-Carlton throne. But praise be, there’s a new $50 million co-op apartment on the market.

The owners of a floor-through apartment at the hoity-toity 944 Fifth Avenue (the staff members actually wear white gloves, reports The New York Times, who first wrote about the listing), have listed their six-bedroom apartment. The apartment is located on a high floor above the tree line. The listing doesn’t actually mention which high floor—how discreet!—but a little sleuthing reveals that the apartment is almost certainly on the eleventh floor. Read More

By Matt Chaban 6/01 1:27pm

Road Rage

Freedom from the tyranny of helmets! (Gucci Little Piggy)

Will Council Bike Helmet Law Drive People to Vote for Ron Paul?

The Observer got an alarmed email from a reader, whose thoughtful daughter sent her our article on the proposed bike helmet legislation, which the reader does not like one bit. Her email, cleverly titled “Will mom opt for civil disobedience?,” expresses some serious concerns about the possibilities of being forced to wear a helmet, and the reason such legislation does not make sense. Read More

By Jessie Schiewe 6/01 12:57pm

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD

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Whole Foods—and Fatty Foods—Coming to Harlem

Over the course of the next few years, Harlem will undergo some major plastic surgery.

First up: a facelift.

Earlier this year, Columbia University began construction of their latest Manhattanville campus expansion, a 17-acre, $6.4 billion site in West Harlem which will serve as the future location of the Jerome L. Green Science Center.

“Five years ago we got some peculiar looks before bidding this project out,” executive director of environmental field compliance for Manhattanville development, Ramesh Raman, told DNAinfo. “Now, good contractors realize this is the wave of the future.”

Second in line: buttock implants. Read More

By Kim Velsey 6/01 11:30am

If You Build It They Will Come

Big apartments for a big building?

Living Large: Manhattan House Caters To Insatiable Appetite For More Space

Big sodas may be history, but wealthy New Yorkers are demanding ever bigger apartments. More, more, more!

Manhattan House, that white brick behemoth on East 66th Street, is only too happy to oblige. The landmarked building, inching along in its conversion to luxury condos, has developed five new spacious layouts.

“People like space, people want space and if they can afford it, why not?” said Loretta Shanahan Bradbury, director of sales at Manhattan House. “It’s not necessarily the size of how many people are living in the apartment. It’s just what they want, and if it’s what they can afford, that’s what they’re buying.” Read More

By Matt Chaban 6/01 9:35am

Elsewhere

On the Market: Rent Carrie Chiang’s Brownstone; Barclays Center Looks Done; Saving Dance New Amsterdam

Chelsea Market expansion plan slammed by community board. [Journal]
Rent Corcoran uber-broker Carrie Chiang’s UES brownstone. [Real Deal]
Feds crack down on 26 dangerous bus companies. [WNYC]
The prettiest McDonald’s is on Long Island, in a Georgian mansion. [ScoutingNY]
JetBlue expanding Terminal 5 to accommodate international flights. [Crain's]
OWS may not have spawned revolution, but we got a solar cellphone charger. [NY Times]
Inside the Rego Park offices the LeFraks have turned into luxe housing. [Daily News]
What can Ratner do to protect neighbors of arena—which looks done. [Brownstoner]
Crazy new rooftop bar opens at Dream Hotel. [Curbed]
Riverdale retail route recovering. [Journal]
A giant bottle of ketchup lands in City Hall Park as art project. [DNAinfo]
More on the buyer of Huguette Clark’s pad—banker who took down Chase. [Curbed]
Maybe a single library system some day, instead of three. [Journal]
Just find this family a three-bedroom, wherever will do. [NY Times]
Dolly Lenz brings $17 million townhouse back to market on UES. [Real Deal]
A touching sidewalk memorial in Boerum Hill. [ArchPaper]
Outrageous Hungarian restaurant dropped in Greenpoint over nun’s protest. [BK Paper]
Dance New Amsterdam saved with rent deal. [DNAinfo]
It’s El Barrio Week in East Harlem—check out the (disappearing) local culture. [Daily News]