Above the gentle hum of conversation and the less gentle hum of traffic rumbling past on Fifth Avenue, one could hear the chirping of birds and the clanking of metal as a small group of New Yorkers took turns thwacking each other with swords.
Bryant Park, which decades ago was one of the most notorious Read More
While it might not be as, uh, edgy as the Torre Verre, Hines unveiled another new Manhattan project today, one with a location even more enticing than next to MoMA. The Houston-based developer will construct a 28-story office tower at the corner of Sixth Avenue and 40th Street, across from Bryant Park. Read More
Notwithstanding the seemingly thousands of pigeons that have occupied Bryant Park, Manhattan is getting its first wild bird sanctuary.
The Wild Bird Fund will be an 800-square-foot roost for all manner of feathered friend at 565 Columbus Avenue, between 87th and 88th streets.
“This will be a great location for them,” Winick Realty’s Brian Tregerman Read More
As malls across the United States suffer diminishing sales, and storefront rents across New York City fall, markets of the more old-fashioned variety are growing increasingly more popular among retailers.
“[T]his year we are witnessing about a 20 percent increase in demand,” said Sar Inbar, one of three partners behind Upsilon Read More
It’s Broadway in Bryant Park baby! And Off-Broadway too! Musicals will once again be performed at the midtown green spot this summer for the 106.7 Lite FM-sponsored "Broadway in Bryant Park" series. You can catch short performances and previews of upcoming and currently staged shows on Thursdays from 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. on the Read More
Finally, tourists will have a place to stay in Manhattan.
Developers filed plans on Friday for the View at Bryant Park, a good year after the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved designs for a 31-story cloud-buster at 20 West 40th Street. The site has since had to go through ULURP, the city’s land-use review.
John Read More
On Wednesday, we wrote about a Real Estate Weekly report about how plans to relocate Fashion Week to the Port Authority were on hold because of issues over whether the bus terminal could accommodate additional traffic.
According to the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the Port Authority is one of many possible Read More
The Bryant Park Corporation wants the current Fashion Week to be one of the last in the midtown plaza. It’s been working with city officials to scout potential new spaces for next year’s Fashion Weeks, said Daniel Biederman, president of the Bryant Park Corporation.
The problem? Fashion Week, Mr. Biederman said, eats into the Read More
Tomorrow is the last chance to view what could possibly be the creepiest advertising campaign to hit Manhattan in recent memory, the world’s largest snowglobe in Bryant Park.
Live actors dressed in ice-hockey, ski, and snow-boarding gear have been holed up in the two-story tall vinyl dome that’s 20 feet in diameter since Friday to Read More
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
