BJ’s “Projected” in the Bronx

In its application for another $7 million in tax breaks from the Industrial Development Agency (this time an exemption to the mortgage recording tax), the Related Companies lists some “projected tenants” at Bronx Terminal Market: BJ’s, Home Depot, Target, Best Buy, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Marshall’s. BJ’s, you may recall, had long been rumoured, Read More

The Other Hillary Haters

On the cover of this week’s edition of Pat Buchanan’s American Conservative, Hillary takes fire from another direction: The anti-war, anti-Israel right, to whom her support for her husband’s interventions in the Balkans seem particularly damning, as does her hard line on Iran. The cover story’s author, the libertarian Justin Raimondo, seems Read More

Marshall’s Intimate Cloudless; Wholesale Promotion at NYCB

There’s been dance everywhere these past weeks, and not only at the City Center, where Paul Taylor was shutting down, and at B.A.M., where Mark Morris was moving in.

Susan Marshall presented a 20th-anniversary season at the Dance Theater Workshop that confirmed her reputation as an inventive and persuasive dance maker. Her new extended piece, Read More

First Lease at Ground Zero

Crain’s is reporting that Larry Silverstein has his first lease at 7 World Trade Center.

And it’s not some wimpy government office, either:

“According to sources close to the deal, a unit of the American Express Co. is in the final stages of negotiating a 15-year lease for about 20,000 square feet at the Read More

Guess Who Thinks Eminem’s a Genius? Middle-Aged Me

If you’re anything like me, you’re middle-aged, you have a fabulous wife and kid, you see a shrink, you really should lose 15 pounds, you think Albert Brooks is funny and Billy Crystal is not, and you can’t believe that anyone can look at this nasty little prick Bush and see a “President,” and … Read More