By Tom Acitelli 8/20/10 6:07pm

Ground Zero MosqueWhat Happened

The Week We Rocked the Mosque Story and Exposed Tony Malkin's Thing with Tall Towers

Sharif El-Gamal, the principal of SoHo Properties and would-be developer of the “ground zero mosque” (getting really tired of putting those quotation remarks around it, will stop soon), says he’s not going anywhere—though he would sell if the price were right.

Anthony Malkin, owner of the Empire State Building, isn’t too fond of the Read More

By The Real Estate Desk 8/17/10 8:39pm

Off to the Races

Aqueduct MOU Signed And Delivered

The long-sought Memorandum of Understanding to designate a winning developer of slot machines at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens has finally been signed, as expected, by the governor, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and the Senate Majority leader, John Sampson.

The three leaders announced this news this afternoon. From Governor Paterson, in a statement:

After an Read More