On Election Day last November, Vishaan Chakrabarti, the name and face of the private developers that are planning to overhaul Pennsylvania Station and the area around it, called up Patrick Foye, an aide to Governor-to-be Eliot Spitzer, and asked him to have a meeting. The conversation went something like this:
Mr. Foye: “How about tomorrow Read More
“I notice when I am riding that I run a lot of red lights,” the 6-foot-2 Paul Steely White shouted over his shoulder. “The way I think of it, it is more important to watch out for pedestrians than lights, because there are a lot of jaywalkers in New York.”
Mr. White, the executive director Read More
Sometime last fall, the biographer Robert Caro got a phone call from Roger Hertog, then vice chairman of AllianceBernstein and a rich and powerful New York City history buff. Columbia was planning a big exhibit on Robert Moses, New York’s master builder from the mid-20th century, and he wanted to know if Mr. Caro would Read More
Just a couple of years ago, the container port in Red Hook, Brooklyn, looked doomed.
It was doing less than 1 percent of the Port Authority’s business. Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff wanted to replace its orange cranes with cruise ships. And real-estate developers were gnawing at the edges, trying to convert onetime warehouses into market-rate Read More
Before the jackhammers, the bulldozers, the hoe rams and the cranes brought the borough’s largest real-estate venture to his Brooklyn neighborhood, Jacob Septimus wanted out. And so, last August, he put on the market for $1.5 million the 2,000-square-foot three-bedroom that he and his wife had bought just five years earlier.
They dropped the Read More
Some of the biggest real-estate names, locally and nationally, are drawing up plans for a 70-story hotel across the street from the Javits Center in the West Side’s emerging Hudson Yards district, contemplating such revenue enhancers as luxury condos and retail boutiques to make the building work for them.
They’re also trying to figure out Read More
Mayor Bloomberg came into office vowing to end corporate welfare as we know it. And he did.
Unless your name is George Steinbrenner, Hank Paulson or Hank McKinnell.
On his first day as Mayor-elect, Mr. Bloomberg renounced the property- and sales-tax breaks that his own media company received for its 59th Street headquarters. “Any company Read More
Mayor Bloomberg came into office vowing to end corporate welfare as we know it. And he did.
Unless your name is George Steinbrenner, Hank Paulson or Hank McKinnell.
On his first day as Mayor-elect, Mr. Bloomberg renounced the property- and sales-tax breaks that his own media company received for its 59th Street headquarters. Read More
Ever since Peter Falk lit the opening cigarette in the 1971 Broadway version of The Prisoner of Second Avenue, the eastern reaches of the Upper East Side have been known as a haven—or hell—for modest renters. The real-estate boom has changed all of that, prompting condo conversions as far east as First Avenue and turning Read More
Ever since Peter Falk lit the opening cigarette in the 1971 Broadway version of The Prisoner of Second Avenue, the eastern reaches of the Upper East Side have been known as a haven—or hell—for modest renters. The real-estate boom has changed all of that, prompting condo conversions as far east as First Avenue and turning Read More
