- So, yeah, the shuttle from Times Square to Grand Central was, at one point, going to be a giant moving walkway. Human conveyor belt! Those were the good old days.
- Act surprised! Politicians are telling you lies in their campaign ads.
- Meanwhile, from the land of awesome Read More
Downtown’s swanky Bowery Hotel is looking for "an A-list actor, studio executive, oil sheik or titan of industry" to rent out its two-bedroom penthouses — just $30,000 a month, according to an e-mail sent to The Observer.
That’s only $6,000 more than late actor Heath Ledger‘s $24,000-a-month, three-bedroom SoHo loft.
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Property records today showed a four-story walk-up at 189 Bowery sold for $9.7 million—a pretty decent price for the one-time Skid Row, especially when compared with the $4.25 million that the very same 10,000=square-foot building sold for in mid-2006 .
The purchase seems to suggest the Bowery’s second act is getting into full swing, Read More
Can anyone in the New York City hotel business keep up with Sam Chang?
On June 11, the prolific hotelier purchased the Whitehouse Hotel at 338 Bowery for $7.8 million, according to city records.
However, unlike a number of properties that Mr. Chang has purchased, he has no immediate plans to change Read More
Only four of the Bowery Hotel’s 17 floors have opened for business, but the fireplace in its whiskey-colored lobby already hisses. The thick velvet curtains are up, the over-worn Oriental rugs are down, and there’s pricey booze in the back-room tavern, as well as seven copies of The Times in the old-fashioned newspaper racks.
But Read More
Bloomberg Hits Up Real-Estate Bigs for WTC Memorial–$5 M. a Piece!
“One morning in early February, about a dozen of New York’s finest and wealthiest real-estate leaders convened to eat breakfast and hear why they should contribute to the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation. The place was Gracie Mansion. And the speaker was the Read More
