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Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiling his housing plan. (Photo: Ed Reed for the Office of Mayor Bill de Blasio)

Next Week/This Week: No Place Like (Affordable) Homes for the Holidays

If you want to feel happy in a million ways, read on.
By Observer Politics Team
A flooded street in Willets Point. (Photo: Andrew Burton for Getty Images)

City Council Defies Bill de Blasio On Major Queens Development

There was a rare break between the City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio today.
By Ross Barkan
A body-painted model approaches two men in Times Square (Photo: Spencer Platt for Getty Images).

Next Week/This Week: The Naked and the Dead

The Observer Politics team bares all about the week that was—and the week that will be.
By Observer Politics Team
Leaving for the private sector.

Twilight of an Era: Seth Pinsky Leaving EDC for RXR Realty

By Kim Velsey
A Javits casino? Don't bet on it. (Inhabitat)

You Can Build Your Casino, Just Not in Manhattan, Shelly Silver Says, and Maybe a Queens Soccer Stadium, Too

By Matt Chaban
Walmart strikes out once again. (Related Companies)

Just How Desperate Is Walmart to Open in New York—And Have They Lost All Their Allies?

By Matt Chaban

Inside Metslandia, 52-Acres of Fun at Willets Point

By Matt Chaban
Take me out to the mall game! (Queens Development Group)

Metslandia! Related and Wilpons Score a Bigger Than Predicted Willets Point Development

By Matt Chaban
Is affordable housing too hard for developers to handle?

Megaproject Developers Promise To Get Around To Affordable Housing Someday

By Kim Velsey
Disconcertingly disconnected. (Bing Maps)

The Real Problem With Willets Point

By Matt Chaban

Citi Field’s Suicide Squeeze! Redone Willets Point Will Bracket Stadium With Huge Malls

By Matt Chaban
From muck to mall. (Getty)

Related and Wilpons Win Willets Point, Plan Mall [Update: Defendents ‘Ecstatic’ City Abandoning Eminent Domain]

By Matt Chaban

Let’s Make a Deal! How Mike’s Mild-Mannered Closer Seth Pinsky Got the City Building Again

By Observer Staff
That big thing in the corner is the Willets convention Center. (NYC EDC)

Does Queens Need Two Convention Centers?

By Michael Ewing
Dirty work. NYC EDC)

Silverstein, AvalonBay Slug It Out with Related at Willets Point

By Matt Chaban
A handful of developers are competing to redevelop the so-called "Iron Triangle." (The NYC Economic Development Corporation)

Related and the Wilpons Team Up for Willets Point Pitch

By Matt Chaban
If you build it, they will come. (NYC EDC)

Related and the Wilpons Team Up for Willets Point Pitch

By Matt Chaban

City Wins Key Willets Point Court Case

By Eliot Brown

Silverstein, Douglaston, Related Vying to Develop Willets Point

By Eliot Brown

Four Years Hard Labor

By Eliot Brown

Thompson on Mega-Development: Look to Battery Park City

By Eliot Brown

City Closes on Willets Point Land as Opponents Question Funding

By Eliot Brown

Michael Bloomberg’s Two Favorite Mega-Projects

By Eliot Brown

The Recession Hops the 7 Train

By Eliot Brown
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