By Matt Chaban 2/08/12 6:11pm

Kimmelmania

Half time?

To Save Penn Station, Boot Madison Square Garden to the River

Despite his lack of formal design training, Michael Kimmelman has excited many readers, both architecturally adept and not, with his focus on urban issues. The Observer has begun to hear some grumbles, however, that that is all he cares about—bike lanes here, old housing projects over there, riverfronts a world away. What does he think of the Atlantic Yards apartment buildings or the World Trade Center Memorial. Won’t he weigh in on some capital-a Architecture already?

Well, today, as always seems to happen, he has done us one better. Read More

By Laura Kusisto 5/10/11 3:45pm

lease beat

Non-Profit Lease at 253 West 35th

253 West 35th Street

Could it indeed be true that the grungy Penn Station office market is getting a second chance? At minimum, a tenant named, yes, Better Chance has leased 9,600 square feet for 10 years at 253 West 35th Street.

The national organization dedicated to helping academically talented youth minorities will move from Read More

By Eliot Brown 2/16/10 10:12pm

Moynihan Bags $83 M. in Stimulus Change—So What?

In late January, a collection of civic groups pushing for the expansion of Penn Station across the street into the Farley Post Office met with Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch’s chief of staff, Michael Evans. The topic was a status report on the long-stalled project-in the works for nearly two decades with little forward Read More

By Eliot Brown 2/09/10 8:11pm

City’s New Third-Tallest Tower?

Just as the markets were starting to unwind in October 2007, real estate titan Steve Roth thought he’d hooked a giant fish. Merrill Lynch had been through a tortuous, hard-fought search for a firm to build its new world headquarters, and after pitting Mr. Roth and his Vornado Realty Trust against developer Larry Read More