So Barclays’s Bruce Ratner told Charles Bagli today. “We’ve kept every single promise we’ve ever made,” he insists. So be it. In typical fashion, the Times scribe cut the Brooklyn developer down to size without so much as uttering a nasty word against him, as he has done to so many big builders and outsized egos over the years. Read More
Big. Really big. As usual, the erudite Charles Bagli puts it into perspective in all of one sentence:
Read MoreStill, city officials predict that within two decades, Hudson Yards could have more office space than Baltimore or Portland, Ore., and as many apartments as Stamford, Conn.
Well, our jobs just got a lot harder.
The Times‘s Charles Bagli, dean of the development beat, filed his second story today since mid-June, when he went on book leave—he is working on a tome about the rise, fall and rise of Stuyvesant Town. The last article he wrote was about 9/11, Read More
Condé Nast has signed a deal to anchor the rapidly rising 1 World Trade Center.
Ever since the media giant signaled its intent to move into the building a few months ago, we’ve considered the deal more or less a foregone conclusion. But The Times’ inimitable Charles Bagli reveals otherwise. In addition to negotiations Read More
Charles Bagli has been covering the epic real estate battles of New York City for nearly a quarter of a century. From his perch at The Times, and before that The Observer, Bagli has written about everything from the demise of the Helmsley Empire to the rise of Riverside South, from the Read More
This Tuesday, the Donald & Paula Smith Family Foundation wil be holding a discussion on the Javits Center, moderated by Charles Bagli, of the New York Times. Participants include Kent Barwick (President, Municipal Art Society), Henry Wollman (Director, Steven L. Newman Institute Baruch College), and David Weprin (Chair, Finance Committee New York City Council). Read More
A very optimistic day today all around. In addition to the Yankees, more “ayes” were heard over on Third Avenue, where both the Convention Center Development Corporation and Empire State Development Corporation approved the latest plan for Javits, the one with the hotel across 11th Avenue, a six-story staging area to the north and the Read More
So the Port Authority shut down talks with Larry Silverstein Wednesday, demanding he come back with an offer “more in the public interest.” Silverstein came back Friday with an offer that, knowing Larry Silverstein, probably wasn’t that much more in the public interest but it was at least a little bit better. (The Daily Read More
