By Matt Chaban 8/08/12 2:40pm

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Skating Into the Bronx

How Exactly Do You Cram Nine Ice Rinks Into a 95-Year-Old Armory, Even One as Big as Kingsbridge?

Easy—just stack them on top of each other.

When Mark Messier first announced his intentions to build a new skating complex inside the Kingsbridge Armory, it sounded crazy. This is the Bronx, after all. When it was revealed there would be eight rinks in total, it sounded insane.

But the Kingsbridge National Ice Center recently launched its social media campaign—what bid for a public project would be complete without one?—and on the project’s Facebook page are a number of models that show exactly how Mr. Messier and his team intend to pull off this wild engineering feat. Read More

By Matt Chaban 2/02/12 10:17am

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His eyes are set on the Bronx. (Sports Illustrated)

An Outer Borough Goal? Hockey Skates Into Brooklyn, the Bronx

New York is not much of a hockey town. The Rangers are the top team in the league right now, and still the awfulness of the Knicks gets more attention. The Super Bowl is sucking up a lot of air time, but even if the Rangers win the Stanley Cup—their first since 1994, second since 1940—the back pages of the tabs will still spend most of their time on off-season baseball news.  Sean Avery’s sartorial choices attract more attention than a Henrik Lundqvist shut out.

Thus The Observer almost slipped on the ice in surprise when two reports surfaced yesterday about hockey coming to some unlikely places. Read More

By Robert Knakal 4/15/10 2:11pm

Congrats, Kingsbridge Armory Opponents

Imagine a family of four is looking at a rental apartment in the newly constructed Building A, which has received tax benefits. While the family likes the apartment very much, the parents are told that if they rent it, they must pay their children higher weekly allowances than they have been paying them. Read More

By Eliot Brown 8:16pm

City Wants Living Wage Study

Facing an increasing pressure from unions and elected officials on issues relating to living wage, the Bloomberg administration is planning to commission its own report and task force on wage policy issues.

In recent days, the city’s Economic Development Corporation has begun reaching out to various organizations that would sit on the task force, including Read More

By Eliot Brown 12/21/09 10:55pm

Council Torpedoes Kingsbridge Armory, Again

The Kingsbridge Armory project has been shot down once again by the City Council, which overrode the mayor’s veto of their veto, killing the planned retail mall in the Bronx all over again.

The Council voted on Monday afternoon, 48-1, to override the mayor’s veto, as the body, and particularly most of the Bronx Read More

By Eliot Brown 12/21/09 10:22pm

Mayor Touts Council O.K.’s for West Side Yards, Broadway Triangle; Rebukes Kingsbridge Rejection

There was a less-than-subtle undertone to a Monday morning mayoral press conference in Chelsea.

Speaking in the wake of the City Council’s rejection of a proposed mall project in the Bronx, Mayor Bloomberg, side by side with Council Speaker Christine Quinn, emphasized “creating jobs;” of “progress” on development projects; of cooperation with the City Council.

On Read More

By Staff 12/15/09 11:28pm

Wage Wars: $10 an Hour Emerges as Make-or-Break for New Development

By all measures, a press conference early Monday afternoon on the steps of City Hall appeared to be a victory celebration.

The City Council had just voted, 45-1, to block a planned new mall at the Bronx’s Kingsbridge Armory, as the developer, the Related Companies, balked at requiring its retail tenants to pay wages of Read More