Crain’s is reporting that Citigroup is negotiating a 370,000-square foot lease in Jersey City and may sell its office tower at 250 West Street in Tribeca that now houses the Smith Barney investment banking division. The Daily News notes that Citi CEO Charles Prince is co-chairman of the Partnership for New York City, Read More
Come January, won’t be New Jersey’s junior senator anymore: he’ll be back in the senior saddle. Perhaps anticipating his ascension, he jumped the gun a bit yesterday.
Approached by WCBS-TV NJ reporter Christine Sloan, Lautenberg agreed to go on camera and discuss Corzine’s pick for Senate. Sloan asked: “Have you talked to Jon Corzine about Read More
The Times has a couple of stories that The Real Estate had the jump on yesterday: First up, a look at the Freedom Center’s defense, released yesterday, of withering criticism from its opposition. Second, details on Trump Plaza: Jersey City. “Trump Plaza” and “Jersey City” … they go together perfectly.
Meanwhile, the Read More
At noon today, Donald Trump will announce the start of construction on Trump Plaza: Jersey City. Yes, Jersey City.
The project will include New Jersey’s two tallest residential towers, and cost about $415 million. The 55-story tower will have 445 condos, and the 50-story tower will have 417. And all those eager young Read More
The news last week that nearly two dozen Catholic elementary schools in Brooklyn and Queens are slated for extinction hit me like a rap on the knuckles with a ruler. It’s not that the signs haven’t been in the air. The Catholic Church and its educational system, after all, wield nowhere near the mighty force Read More
The Village Voice does some more digging on the question we looked at last week: Whether charitable donations to NYC2012, the Olympic bid committee, buy influence with the city.
The new information they have comes from Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff’s schedule, obtained through the Freedom of Information Law, which show — surprise! Read More
Congress is in an inquisitive mood, which, all things considered, is generally better for the common good than when the honorable members are in an acquisitive mood.
Senators and Representatives are keen to ask questions concerning revelations that our intelligence community was not as clueless as many of us assumed on Sept. 11. But the Read More
The son of the blind sheik is now in custody. As we consider what to do with Ahmed Abdel Rahman–should he be the test case for the Bush administration’s military tribunals?–it would be politic of us to have him transferred to a holding center within the Muslim world. A prison in Turkey would seem about Read More
President George W. Bush says we have begun a new kind of war, the first war of the 21st century, a war like no other we have seen before.
No doubt he is right-this war will not resemble even the Gulf War, any more than the Gulf War resembled the Civil War, or the Read More
Kevin Ingram, the former high-flying Goldman Sachs bond trader
who was arrested on June 12 in South Florida on money-laundering charges, was
snared in a long-running government sting operation that was closing in on a
purported Pakistani buyer of advanced and sophisticated military arms,
including some with nuclear capabilities, government documents show.
Dangling $32 Read More
