Madonna Watch 2007: She’ll Be Back to Buy
It would be a tragedy of biblical proportions if the most epic New York superstars stopped buying New York’s most epic real estate. So, is it a bad sign that former New Yorker Madonna came and left Manhattan this month without grabbing a French limestone townhouse or Read More
Just a couple of years ago, the container port in Red Hook, Brooklyn, looked doomed.
It was doing less than 1 percent of the Port Authority’s business. Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff wanted to replace its orange cranes with cruise ships. And real-estate developers were gnawing at the edges, trying to convert onetime warehouses into market-rate Read More
Yuet-fung Ho made Hong Kong’s first television soap opera. Now she works for Michael Bloomberg.
She started on the first day of the transit strike last year. She walked across Central Park to the Upper East Side to hitch a ride with her new co-workers in an S.U.V.
“On my first day, I was given Read More
Yuet-fung Ho made Hong Kong’s first television soap opera. Now she works for Michael Bloomberg.
She started on the first day of the transit strike last year. She walked across Central Park to the Upper East Side to hitch a ride with her new co-workers in an S.U.V.
“On my first day, I was Read More
Six weeks before the Great Blackout of 2003, Mayor Bloomberg’s senior energy adviser quit his post amid a series of disputes over the administration’s approach to energy policy, The Observer has learned.
The adviser, Richard Miller, was a senior vice president at the city’s Economic Development Corporation. Mr. Miller had been assigned the task Read More
Joshua Sirefman is returning to the Economic Development Corporation as interim president, filling the spot left by Andrew Alper, who officially left June 2. The interim part is bit mystifying–Sirefman was chief operating officer of the E.D.C. for a while before becoming chief of staff to Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff, such that Read More
An important building site in downtown Brooklyn that The Observer reported in January was leaning primarily residential is now leaning commercial. Cushman & Wakefield Executive Director Glenn Markman, who is brokering the site for developer Joshua Muss, told us that 75 percent of it would be devoted to offices.
“The Read More
Issuing a press release at noon Tuesday, Larry Silverstein confirmed that Beijing Vantone agreed to basic terms of the 200,000-square foot lease at 7 World Trade Center. Along with a lot of quotes from every public official who had anything to do with financing the building or luring the tenant is an intriguing history. It Read More
Last night, Brooklyn Community Board 6 held a public meeting with representatives from the Economic Development Corporation to discuss future plans for Piers 7 through 12 in Red Hook.
(The piers are located roughly in the center of Brooklyn’s much-hyped waterfront-renewal project, a map of which is posted to the left; the Brooklyn Bridge Park Read More
A city agency is planning to build a science park on the site of a Sept. 11 memorial-but it will “not reveal all negatives” of the project, according to an internal document obtained by The Observer .
The city’s Economic Development Corporation (E.D.C.) is eyeing Memorial Park, which sits under a large white tent Read More
