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Sheldon Silver. (Illustration by Jason Seiler)
Jan 13

How Sheldon Silver Became a Convicted Felon Thanks to Shady Real Estate Relationships

How Sheldon Silver rose to have so much sway over the real estate industry—and fell to become a convicted felon.
By Jillian Jorgensen
This is now a building that will never be built. (Courtesy Essex Crossing)
Mar 30

Actually, New York Will Not Be Getting a Branch of The Andy Warhol Museum

Sorry, fans of Warhol, and anyone who was trying to make bank off a flashy new museum coming to a gentrifying neighborhood. Nearly two years after announcing its plans to erect an outpost at Essex Crossing, the massive development that's set to take over a few vacant lots at Seward Park on the Lower East Side, Warhol Museum director Eric Shiner said the plans have been abruptly canceled. He was pretty vague about why plans for a 10,000-square-foot institution just disappeared.
By Nate Freeman

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