State officials are privately throwing cold water on The New York Times ‘ plan to build an $850 million tower that will serve as its new headquarters on Eighth Avenue, across the street from the Port Authority bus terminal.
The Gray Lady’s development partner, developer Bruce Ratner, has been publicly pleading for the government’s help 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 of Read More
Second Ave. Subway Land Seizures
Have U.E.S. Residents Up In Arms
With the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s declaration earlier this year that it hopes to break ground on the Second Avenue subway by late 2004, the reality of a subway that was first envisioned in 1929 and since dismissed as little more than a public-works Read More
The deal to turn Governors Island over from federal to state and city control is foundering, sources close to the negotiations say. According to legislators who have worked on the deal, there is no obvious way to overcome divisions between the federal government, which currently controls the 172-acre island in the Upper Harbor, and the Read More
David Emil, the restaurateur who ran Windows on the World, has
plans to return to the financial district. Mr. Emil confirmed that he’s one of
several bidders vying to lease and renovate the city-owned Battery Maritime
Building, a historic but rundown ferry terminal adjacent to the South Ferry
terminal at the very tip of lower Read More
There was a time when Frank Sinatra could bring the traffic in Times Square to a standstill: the blinding marquee on the old Paramount dazzling approaching drivers, the hysterical bobbysoxers spilling onto Seventh Avenue and into the path of Broadway-bound cars. Happy days, members of Board 5 fear, might be here again.
Into the heart Read More
Alan J. Gerson is feeling positively folksy these days. The bespectacled, boyish-looking lawyer and former Board 2 chairman was on hand at the Feb. 27 meeting of Board 3 to pitch his latest project, the Folk Music Museum of Greenwich Village. Flanked by folk and blues legend Odetta and Greenwich Village luminary Paul Colby, owner Read More
In case it fails to find a developer willing to pay hundreds
of millions to build a 900-foot skyscraper atop a new New York Stock Exchange,
the Giuliani administration is preparing to go it alone, plunging ahead with
New York’s first large-scale speculative building of its kind in more than a
decade, according to individuals Read More
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
A high-ranking figure in Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s administration whose office is playing a key role in the closing of the Fresh Kills landfill is being investigated by the Manhattan District Attorney for his alleged contacts with mob-connected garbage companies, sources have told The Observer .
Adam Barsky, director of the Mayor’s Office of Operations, is Read More
