By Staff 3/16/07 6:00pm

The Afternoon Wrap: Friday

  • There’s a new king in town, but he lives in Minnesota: “Deuce Seven… came to the East Coast for the first time on January 10, arriving with a backpack of spray cans he’d stolen from a Minnesota Home Depot, some painted boards, and an open invitation to sleep on a Brooklyn couch. The lanky Read More

    • By Staff 1/04/07 1:38pm

    CBS Radio Ponies Up for Hudson Square Space

    CBS Radio finally found its home of 75,000 square feet at 345 Hudson Street, as Real Estate Weekly reported.

    But here’s some new information that everyone loves: Rent numbers!

    CBS will take the 10th and 11th floors with rents starting at $34.50 a square foot for the first five years, $37.25 in the next five Read More

    By Staff 11/06/06 5:21pm

    Elsewhere: Hillary, Hevesi, Pirro

    Bill Clinton is reincarnated.

    The chairman of the Working Families Party wants to bet that his party will get more votes than the Conservative Party.

    Ben notes that so far, no evidence has surfaced to prove that the Republican robo-calls made in a some close congressional races here are illegal.

    Josh Read More

    By Staff 8/03/06 6:00pm

    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

    By Staff 5/08/06 12:25pm

    Le Corbusier or Need for Speed?

    BLDGBLOG’s cri de coeur regarding architectural criticism pushes the theory that saying “Gee, the new Home Depot really sucks” isn’t given the importance it deserves. Drop Le Corbusier from your vocabulary, and check out the new games from Electronic Arts if you want to engage ordinary Americans in the architectural game. Otherwise, you’re Read More

    By Staff 2/10/06 9:17am

    Friday: Approved!


    Can you really pronounce this?

  • Tribeca residents don’t shop for food. They get Hermes and BMW instead. (Metro)
  • Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to spend $19.5 million on six parks and public spaces in Lower Manhattan, including the lot bordered by Canal, Varick and Laight Streets. Oh, and frozen weeds. Read More

    • By Staff 1/19/06 1:48pm

    Langone, Bundler

    Ken Langone, who has kind of vanished from haunting Eliot Spitzer in recent days, pops up as expected in Tom Suozzi’s campaign filing.

    He and his family contributed $64,000 to Suozzi’s “liberation” (as Tom has described it); Citizen Action counts up a total of more than $500,000 linked to Langone. (Some of those Read More

    By Staff 6/09/05 3:44pm

    Barricades in Bloom

    Mike‘s latest play at poaching Freddy’s base? The Puerto Rican Day Parade.

    Today’s spin on the turf war included a letter to Fifth Ave. co-op board presidents, in which Mike implored them to leave parade security to the NYPD. Traditionally, the mayor’s neighbors fortify their own digs with sheets of plywood, chain-link, and plastic Read More