Another thriller is coming to Coney Island, and there’s no admission–unless you want to live there, of course.
Over the past few years, everyone’s attention was focused on the sideshow that was
Rezoned in 2005 for a different developer, the site would have held two buildings of seven stories with 300 apartments. Now Mr. Catsimatidis’ Read More
After wondering what exactly was on Obama’s birth certificate, Trump sympathizer John Catsimatidis emailed me his reaction to this morning’s events:
I am Glad he released it and that Read More
In June of last year, before he began positioning himself as the most rabid Birther candidate for president on the Republican right, developer and casino operator Donald Trump gave $25,000 to the campaign of Kathleen Rice, the Democratic DA of Nassau County, who was the early front-runner to replace Andrew Cuomo as New York state Read More
A frequent theme at today’s Bloomberg Real Estate Briefing was just how great New York City real estate is. But there is one other place that all the machers look fondly on–perhaps making them the only people in the country who do so: Washington, D.C.
Even the politicians don’t like it, at least not Read More
Last Friday, while Manhattan suffered through another desperately slushy storm, the 57-year-old financier Steven Rattner was holed up inside his family’s Westchester horse farm. There were no taxis to splash through icy curbside puddles. The snow fell from the pretty white sky.
It was bad. There are only two things that can happen after a Read More
Flipping through the New York Post, I came across this busy and colorful ad for Gristedes, which features the photo of a certain billionaire who eyed a run for mayor.
Coming across these kinds of ads are, I think, one of the perks of paying Read More
ALBANY—Business leaders will huddle tomorrow to develop and share their ideas on how the state can deal with a growing budget gap.
"Hopefully we're going to mobilize some constructive responses to the budget crisis," said Kathy Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City. "We want to be constructively anti-tax."
The Partnership and Read More
Remember John Catsimatidis, the poor (well, definitely not poor, actually) guy who was supposed to be the Republican candidate for mayor this year, only to lose out when Michael Bloomberg decided he was going to need to borrow the Republican line again this year after all?
During this chat today with John Catsimatidis, Neil Cavuto of Fox Business News says (at around the three-minute mark), “You’re like a skunk at your own party’s picnic,” and, “I think your party hates wealthy people. I do.”
Catsimatidis asks, “Which party are you talking about?
"The Democrats,” says Cavuto.
“Well, Read More
Last night, the Staten Island Republican Party indicated, once again, that they’d like to see Michael Bloomberg re-elected as mayor.
Making the case to a room full of Republicans was the passingly controversial former representative Vito Fossella, who said, “If there ever was a time we need Mike Bloomberg representing all of us Read More
