The city’s controversial plan to redevelop the former Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, now a homeless shelter, into a hotel and conference center is now officially dead… or at least in a very deep sleep.
On Thursday, Louise Dankberg, of the Bellevue Community Advisory Board, and Carol Ann Rinzler, of the Turtle Bay Association, sent out the following Read More
The Bloomberg administration has done an about-face on its plan to send the redevelopment of the former Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital though the city's standard (and intensive) public review process, known among real estate wonks as ULURP (Uniform Land Use Review Procedure) — a move that has at least one project opponent fuming.
"This Read More
The Bloomberg administration has done an about-face on its plan to send the redevelopment of the former Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital though the city’s standard (and intensive) public review process, known among real estate wonks as ULURP (Uniform Land Use Review Procedure) — a move that has at least one project opponent fuming.
“This is Read More
The Bloomberg administration has done an about-face on its plan to send the redevelopment of the former Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital though the city’s standard (and intensive) public review process, known among real estate wonks as ULURP (Uniform Land Use Review Procedure)—a move that has at least one project opponent fuming.
“This is Read More
My and Hilly’s first session of couples therapy seemed to be going well; we’d already covered the issue of my irritability, for example. The session continued:
GEORGE: Why even bring that up? I don’t think there’s any reason to say I’ve yelled at my cat. I mean, you got me: I’m guilty. And you’ve seen Read More
I’ve always been afraid of Bellevue. As a child, I pictured it as a crumbling castle full of shadows, secret passageways and catastrophes. Embarrassingly enough, even after living in New York for most of my life, I had no idea where the hell it was. Imagining someplace exotic, such as Staten Island or the Bronx, Read More
Lower East Side Gets N.Y.U. Dorm Without a Fight
When you’re one of the hottest universities in the country-attracting 30,000 applicants a year for a mere 4,000 spaces-growth is inevitable. When that growth must take place downtown in a crowded city like New York, conflict is also virtually inevitable.
New York University-which has Read More
Lee Munson is a tall, lanky, swaggering 25-year-old who moved from California to Manhattan three years ago and became a stockbroker. Now he works at a top brokerage house in midtown, wears a lot of Prada and Gucci, drives a BMW and is married to an attractive 27-year-old woman who works in the art world. Read More
The Captain was walking on 42nd Street. He was barefoot. I took him back to my apartment, and he took a shower. Then I gave him some money, as usual.
Another time I saw him asleep on a piece of cardboard near the Plaza Hotel. He jumped up and walked with me for a Read More
On May 31, Isidro Pacheco, a 31-year-old restaurant worker serving six months in the Manhattan Detention Complex on a drug charge, collapsed in his cell. It wasn’t the first time. In the previous two weeks, Mr. Pacheco had collapsed three times in the facility, known as the Tombs. In this time period, according to medical Read More
