Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation

Proposal of the Decade: vision42 wants to ban cars from 42nd Street. That’s because the current Times Square is a godforsaken nightmare, and because “a pedestrian and light-rail line zone would boost business” by $380 million each year, and because there might be greenery. (AP)

Drama on the Read More

By Staff 7/24/06 2:00pm

Solution to Affordable Housing? Old Prisons in Brooklyn. (Sort of)

Not this kind of Brig.

It’s been exactly a year since we’ve heard about the City’s plans for the fascinating Brig site in Wallabout. Today, however, brings an official Request for Proposals for the redevelopment of the former prison (conveniently neighboring the Brooklyn Navy Yard) into 400 new housing units.

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By Staff 10/03/05 9:56am

Admiral’s Woe

Another landmark target on the Brooklyn waterfront: Admirals Row in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which the city wants to replace with a supermarket. The advoacy group Historic Districts Council says in its October newsletter: “These buildings are a community amenity, and to demolish them for a big-box supermarket, which is planned, Read More

By Staff 7/26/05 9:31am

Lights, Camera, George!

After Iowa, where is there for a 2008 hopeful to go? The silver screen. Or the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

That is where Pataki turned up – and where Spike Lee is filming – in order to hand out Made in New York t-shirts (third item down).

Maybe he is ready for his Read More

By Terry Golway 5/17/99 12:00am

Now for Something Completely Different

Nearly a decade has passed since Charles Millard had the good sense to visit Wise Guys during what seemed like an unlikely campaign for a City Council seat from the Upper East Side. It was unlikely because he was a Republican, he was running against an incumbent, and nobody had ever heard of him. Read More

By Devin Leonard 5/03/99 12:00am

Mayor Green-Lights De Niro Movie Yard

It isn’t easy for Robert De Niro to make a move in this city without being hounded by paparazzi . But on April 26, he and Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax Films, managed to slip quietly into Gracie Mansion for a private meeting with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and two top aides.

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The Round-Up: Friday

Rent Due: Navy Yard Owes City $2.2 Million

Wednesday: 42nd Street Fantasies; Whitney on the High Line; Boomer Panama Condos

Solution to Affordable Housing? Old Prisons in Brooklyn. (Sort of)

Admiral’s Woe

Lights, Camera, George!

Now for Something Completely Different

Mayor Green-Lights De Niro Movie Yard

Across the Wire

Bill Clinton, Media Critic

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So Now We're Blaming JPMorgan's $2.3 Billion Trading Loss on Biology

Rachel Lee Hovnanian Serves Up 'Mud Pie' at Leila Heller Gallery

Mayoral Candidate/Media Person Tom Allon Doesn't Want to be Boris Johnson Or Berlusconi On His Birthday