By Matt Chaban 4/09 10:42am

Road Rage

Curse those bikes!

Bikes Desecrate 9/11: Lane to Blamed for Moving Survivor Sphere

So the Battery Conservancy wants to move The Sphere, Fritz Koenig’s sculpture that survived the attacks and has called the park home for a decade. The conservancy defends the decision because it is holding up long-planned renovations to the park, which have taken place everywhere but on the site of The Sphere, the installation of which was always meant to be permanent.

The hope was the sculpture would be reinstalled at the World Trade Center site, but as that project has dragged on, and uncertainty continues, its fate is now uncertain. The sculpture moves to JFK this week, and will hopefully find a home at the site, possibly on a park planned for the space where the old Deutsche Bank Building used to stand.

Whose to blame here, though? Read More

By Chris Shott 9:39pm

Hotelier Sam Chang Snags Another Site

Voracious hotel developer Sam Chang has acquired yet another piece of Manhattan.

City records show that Mr. Chang’s Great Neck, N.Y., company has paid $27 million for a building at 6-12 Water Street.

According to PropertyShark.com, the 21,000-square-foot building includes a two-story McDonald’s — quite appropriate for the McSam gang.

By Matthew Schuerman 4/09/07 12:00am

Developers Say They Can’t Build Green

Despite the hype about green roofs; despite the rampant branding of luxury residences with names like the Solaire and Tribeca Green; despite the cachet that once-repulsive ideas have now garnered (waterless urinals! recycled rainwater!), technologies that allow buildings to generate at least a portion of their own power in a clean, efficient way are having Read More

By Matthew Schuerman 2/26/07 12:00am

This Guy Wants You to Love Atlantic Yards

"Americans are frightened of density. Europe is not.”

Laurie Olin, one of the most noted landscape architects in the country, was holding forth in his firm’s library in central Philadelphia. He wants to help us get over our obsession with personal space.

So Mr. Olin took on the task of designing the Atlantic Yards project Read More

By Daisy Carrington 2/12/07 12:00am

Margot Megan Slade

Dec. 31, 2006

8 a.m.

8 pounds, 6 ounces

New York Downtown Hospital

Husband-and-wife architects James and Hayes Slade, both 40, have built quite a family in the 18 years they’ve been married: Ana, 14, Santi, 13, Stella, 2, and now this beautiful little bald, pinkish addition, the news of which prompted cheers and hugs Read More

By Staff 11/30/06 9:30am

Spitzer, Silver and June O'Neill

Eliot Spitzer spent the morning and afternoon yesterday speaking to the Assembly Democratic Conference at the Embassy Suite in Battery Park City, where “the relationship between Shelly and Eliot was clearly cordial,” one Democratic lawmaker who was there emailed to say.

Another legislator who attended the get-together said that talk among the rank and file Read More

By Staff 11/29/06 4:27pm

It Ain't Over 'Til It's Built

In an otherwise critical sound-off on Atlantic Yards, Municipal Art Society head Kent Barwick tells StreetsBlog that there is still, in his eyes, hope for the mega-complex.

“I don’t think this project is substantially designed in its later phases,” he said, pointing out that it could be a decade before construction begins on much Read More