Afternoon Bulletin: Red Hook’s Sunny Balzano Dies, The Rock Gets a Pool (Sort Of)
Beloved owner of legendary Red Hook bar Sunny's, Sunny Balzano, died Thursday evening at the age of 81.
Battery Park City
The Rent Man: Charles Urstadt Defends the 43-year-old Law That Bears his Name
The Observer talks to Charles J. Urstadt about affordable housing, filling in the Harlem River and swimming.
Fortunes of War: Military Equipment Dealers Flee Battery Park City for $3.12M
why not make a bundle from the military so as to drastically expand one's own personal definition of "affordable"? Mr. Kipper, the CEO and president of Kipper Tool Company—a designer and manufacturer of "Military Tested, Industry Approved" tool kits that won a federal contract worth nearly $19.5 million earlier this month, and another in May for more than $85 million—would have some justification in such musing. He and his wife Nancy, Kipper Tool's CFO, just sold their penthouse at 30 West Street for $3.125 million, according to city records.
