Cooper Square Hotel Mural Completed, Five New Landmarks
November 17, 2009 06:03 PM
EAST VILLAGE—Tonight is the party to celebrate the completion of the new graffiti mural on the side of the tenement attached to the Cooper Square Hotel, and wowee zowee, there it is. We will now begin referring to the...
Another Sale at Superior Ink, East 13th Street On The Market
November 17, 2009 05:30 PM
[Checking on the view from under-construction InterContinental Times Square, via HotelChatter] · Buy a big chunk of East 13th Street for $48 million [EVG] · State legislature votes for more foreclosure protections [Crain's] · What's replaced "Grandma's House" on...
Comment of the Day: "What's to figure out? The homes...
November 17, 2009 05:30 PM
"What's to figure out? The homes are selling. They will be occupied with high income earners fueling FiDi's transformation into a 24/7 community. The huge 200 Water (just 2 blocks away) is now almost fully rented after serving for...
On the Block: 110 Central Park South's Last Unsold Condop
November 17, 2009 05:01 PM
The one remaining unsold unit at condop conversion 110 Central Park South will go under the gavel courtesy of David R. Maltz & Co. next month. The 1,026-square-foot 1BR, 1.5BA apartment 8C has never been occupied, and there appears...
LIC's Gotham Center Showing Off Some Curves?
November 17, 2009 04:31 PM
[Photo via liQcity.] One of developer/landlord Tishman Speyer's crazier schemes not involving Stuy Town is the Queensboro Plaza game-changer dubbed Gotham Center. The megaproject got a much-needed shot in the arm when the city's Department of Health agreed to...
Turtle Bay Crane Collapse Building Gets Going Again
November 17, 2009 04:15 PM
Things are suddenly heating up again at 303 East 51st Street, where construction stopped in March '08 after a massive crane collapse that killed seven and led to all sorts of indictments and reforms at the Buildings Department. The...
Fighting Queens Crap: The practice of paving over front...
November 17, 2009 03:30 PM
The practice of paving over front yards to create private parking spaces exploded from 2005-2008, earning the endorsement of Barbara Corcoran and the rage of blogger Queens Crap. Now the City Planning Commission is finally ready to act. Just...
On the Racked: Shoe Designers Close Up Shop For Bus, More!
November 17, 2009 03:16 PM
And now, the latest from Racked, covering shopping and retail from the sidewalks up. [But did the for-sale items live up to the hype? Via Racked] 1) Nolita: Shoe-designer twins Shane and Shawn are closing their Mulberry Street flagship...
73-Story Tower to Rise on 57th Street With Abu Dhabi's Help
November 17, 2009 02:31 PM
Extell has become so tight-lipped on its planned 73-story condo/Park Hyatt hotel that we keep having to mine international news sources for updates. Already we received word from France that Pritzker Prize-winning starchitect Christian de Portzamparc is aboard to...
The New Foreign Buyers: Foreign buyers coming to check out...
November 17, 2009 02:16 PM
Foreign buyers coming to check out New York City real estate are old hat, but now Americans are the sought after foreign buyers...in the West Bank. New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind is taking a bus worth of wannabe homeowners...
Stalled Seaport Development Back From the Dead?
November 17, 2009 02:00 PM
Don't bury the Morris Adjmi-designed addition to the South Street Seaport Historic District quite yet, Arrested Development fanatics. The long-stalled site at 254 Front Street, a seven-story condo building in the shadows of the Brooklyn Bridge, may have new...
Stalled Seaport Development Back From the Dead
November 17, 2009 01:45 PM
Don't bury the Morris Adjmi-designed addition to the South Street Seaport Historic District quite yet, Arrested Development fanatics. The long-stalled site at 254 Front Street, a seven-story condo building in the shadows of the Brooklyn Bridge, may have new...
Goldberger Pens Love Letter to Nouvel's 100 Eleventh
November 17, 2009 01:16 PM
The critical reaction to Jean Nouvel's mountain of broken glass at 100 Eleventh Avenue has been mixed so far, but here comes a heavyweight to shape the discussion moving forward. The New Yorker's Paul Goldberger, author of one of...
Tuesday Townhouse: Night at the Museum in Williamsburg
November 17, 2009 12:46 PM
Welcome back to Tuesday Townhouse: A look at a new-to-market townhouse that is rocking our world. Today we venture to Williamsburg. This week's townhouse of note is 293 Grand Street in Williamsburg, a 6,500 3BR, 3BA building with a...
Stadium Sells Cheap: The 80,300-seat Pontiac Silverdome and 130...
November 17, 2009 12:31 PM
The 80,300-seat Pontiac Silverdome and 130 acres of adjacent land just outside Detroit sold at auction for less than the price of some Manhattan studio apartments. A Toronto real estate firm submitted a winning bid of $583,000 for the...
District, King of FiDi Bling, Selling Below $1K a Square Foot
November 17, 2009 11:45 AM
Eater brings word that District, the high-flying Financial District luxury condo conversion that birthed the term "amenity overdrive," has finally lured a restaurant tenant into the grand street-level space that was once attached to celebrity restaurateur Stephen Starr and...
Meanwhile, In France: Two French architects have created a...
November 17, 2009 11:01 AM
Two French architects have created a hotel room in Nantes, France, where guests can live like hamsters for a night. And by "live like hamsters," yes, they do mean eat hamster food, sleep on hay, and use a person-sized...
Lincoln Center Renovation Now Walking on Air Glass
November 17, 2009 10:31 AM
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. No wonder they're flying high at Lincoln Center: The 2,544-seat David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center has re-opened after a full renovation of the original 1964 Philip Johnson/John Burgee...
Penthouse PriceChop: Things are getting even gorier at...
November 17, 2009 10:19 AM
Things are getting even gorier at the Chupiriffic Level Club penthouse at 253 West 73rd Street after another PriceChop. The That's Rather Hideous nominee popped on the market in September for $4.795 million and is now asking $3.95 million....
Brokerage Slapped for Selling Leaky Park Slope Condo
November 17, 2009 10:01 AM
It hasn't yet gone to trial, but a State Supreme Court judge issued a ruling on a couple's $5 million lawsuit over their wet-n-wild Park Slope condo, and it's bad news for our friends at Corcoran. Harold Einstein (a...
