‘Vanity Fair’ Pries Back Plaza Veneer
More troubling reports from inside the newly renovated landmark.
Posted 11/05/08 in Daily Intel
Developing
Gary Barnett, Manhattan Real Estate’s Beacon of Hope
Barnett says Extell will draw on its land bank to deliver new residential projects in as soon as nine months.
Posted 10/24/08 in Daily Intel
Developing
NYC Real-Estate Developer Offers ‘Obama Contingency’
The developers behind Chelsea's condo building +aRT are offering an election special.
Posted 10/15/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
We’re Gonna Drywall Like It’s 1997
The city's construction workforce soon down to pre-Lewinsky levels!
Posted 10/14/08 in Daily Intel
Developing
New York Sports Teams Abandon Home Turf in Time of Need
For guys who get ticker-tape parades down Wall Street, the owners of the city's major sports franchises sure don't seem to mind leaving the city in the lurch.
Posted 10/02/08 in Daily Intel
Developing
Clarity Emerges at Ground Zero, and Larry Silverstein Clearly Is Not a Key Ingredient
Larry Silverstein's office towers are in jeopardy and nobody in government is too worried about salvaging them.
Posted 10/01/08 in Daily Intel
Developing
The New York Real-Estate Boom: R.I.P.
The ‘Times’ and the ‘Post’ both ran obituaries for the city real-estate bubble today.
Posted 09/22/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Market Crash Will Not Stop Play-Doh Park From Rising on West Side
Look at these pretty (and delicious) renderings of potential Hudson Yards development!
Posted 09/22/08 in Grub Street
Developing
Neighbors Nervous About Rooftop Pool Bar Replacing Moondance Diner
They'll hear out the developers at a meeting this week.
Posted 09/18/08 in Daily Intel
Developing
The Plaza Fights Back Against Andrei Vavilov
Now El-Ad, the developers behind the new Plaza hotel, are suing the Russian financier over his ‘defamatory’ complaints about his penthouse apartment.
Posted 09/10/08 in Daily Intel
Developing
Buyers Flipping Out Over Plaza Conditions
Buckling floors? Ceilings caving in? Tiny windows? What is this, the Lower East Side?
Posted 09/04/08 in Daily Intel
Accidents
Another Construction-Worker Death
This time it was a worker at a tower on 41st Street and Eleventh Avenue. It’s unclear why the scaffolding gave way, but the result was a deadly plunge of 40 stories.
Posted 08/01/08 in Daily Intel
Developing
Planned South Street Seaport Redevelopment Looks Kinda Cool
We’re thinking it could persuade locals, mistrustful of any proposals to overhaul the waterfront, that the developers might not actually destroy the very fabric of their lives.
Posted 06/30/08 in Daily Intel
Developing
Port Authority About to Tell Us Whom to Blame for WTC Delays
A report is due out today citing seventeen to twenty causes for construction and planning setbacks.
Posted 06/18/08 in Daily Intel
Developing
Chuck Prince Can't Get Out of the Greenwich Ghetto
The former Citigroup CEO cannot unload his multi-million-dollar mansion. Must be the economy!
Posted 06/12/08 in Daily Intel
Developing
Brooklyn Architect Robert Scarano Put on Notice
The Department of Buildings has filed charges against him.
Posted 06/11/08 in Daily Intel
Developing
Chrysler Building to Be Sold to Abu Dhabi
The country's investment group is set to shell out $800 million for a 75 percent ownership stake in the landmark.
Posted 06/04/08 in Daily Intel
Developing
Robert De Niro Pisses Off the Wrong Small Group of Bureaucrats
The actor flagrantly disobeyed the Landmarks Commission when building a penthouse atop his Greenwich Hotel, and they are threatening to go all Eliot Ness on him.
Posted 05/08/08 in Daily Intel
Developing
New Port Authority Chief Not So Sure About This Atlantic Yards
Chris Ward, due to take over the Port Authority this month, suggests to us that he thinks Bruce Ratner should consider recruiting architects other than Frank Gehry.
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