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Spitzer Aide as Transit Savior: Arise Again, Moynihan Station!
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On Election Day last November, Vishaan Chakrabarti, the name and face of the private developers that read more »
Congestion Pricing Prophet: ‘Biking Is the New Golf!’
Melanie Flood
Bobo radical: Paul Steely White in the Chelsea offices of Transportation Alternatives.
“I notice when I am riding that I run a lot of red lights,” the 6-foot-2 Paul Steely Whi read more »
Robert Moses Returns: Power Broker Spurs Caro-Jackson Bout
Joyce Ravid
Robert Moses and his main interpreter
Sometime last fall, the biographer Robert Caro got a phone call from Roger Hertog, then vice chairma read more »
Battle of Red Hook Pivots On Cargo and Cruise Ships
Durst Organization
See it while you can: A cargo ship unloads in Red Hook.
Just a couple of years ago, the container port in Red Hook, Brooklyn, looked doomed.
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Earplugs, Anyone? Selling In Atlantic Yards’ Shadow
Melanie Flood
Atlantic Yards stares down nearby Newswalk, above.
Before the jackhammers, the bulldozers, the hoe rams and the cranes brought the borough’s larg read more »
Get Your Bids In! Developers Crave Subsidies for Javits Hotel
Any hotel will drink from the well of Javits conventions.
Some of the biggest real-estate names, locally and nationally, are drawing up plans for a 70-story h read more »
No, No, No. Yes. The Mayor's Curious Evolution on Public Money for Private Real Estate
Mayor Bloomberg came into office vowing to end corporate welfare as we know it. And he did.
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No, No, No. Yes. The Mayor’s Curious Evolution on Public Money for Private Real Estate
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Michael Bloomberg.
Mayor Bloomberg came into office vowing to end corporate welfare as we know it. And he did.
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Haven No Longer: Say Goodbye Fast to the Far East Side
Ever since Peter Falk lit the opening cigarette in the 1971 Broadway version of The Prisoner of Seco read more »
Haven No Longer: Say Goodbye Fast to the Far East Side
Anna Del Gaizo
The Wellington.
Ever since Peter Falk lit the opening cigarette in the 1971 Broadway version of The Prisoner of Seco read more »
Hunter Seeking a Swap: Kips Bay for New Tower
Hunter College is getting into the real-estate business.
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Hunter Seeking a Swap: Kips Bay for New Tower
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Jennifer Raab.
Hunter College is getting into the real-estate business.
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Speaker Silver on Moynihan: Deal by June ’07
Moynihan Station.
Fresh from vetoing the project to turn the Farley Post Office Building into Moynihan Station, a new read more »
Speaker Silver on Moynihan: Deal by June '07
Fresh from vetoing the project to turn the Farley Post Office Building into Moynihan Station, a new read more »
The Biggest Deal: From Stuy Town to Speyer Shire
For the last 60 years—even when all of New York City seemed broke—the forbidding brick towers an read more »
The Biggest Deal: From Stuy Town to Speyer Shire
For the last 60 years—even when all of New York City seemed broke—the forbidding brick t read more »
For 'Ultimate Insider,' It's Sunnyside Up
A behind-the-scenes political insider could become the city’s next big development kingpin, if May read more »
For ‘Ultimate Insider,’ It’s Sunnyside Up
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Lawyer Michael Bailkin stands to rake in trainloads if a Bloomberg plan to build above the Sunnyside rail yards comes to fruition.
A behind-the-scenes political insider could become the city’s next big development kingpin, if read more »
Mayor Faces Pitched Battle Over Breaks for Developers
Vito Lopez, the powerful Brooklyn Democratic Party chairman, is spoiling for a fight with Mayor Mich read more »
Mayor Faces Pitched Battle Over Breaks for Developers
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Michael Bloomberg.
Vito Lopez, the powerful Brooklyn Democratic Party chairman, is spoiling for a fight with Mayor Mich read more »
Perils of Pataki: Tied to Tracks on Moynihan Station
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Moynihan Station.
Governor George Pataki’s aides are scrambling to get the jackhammers going at Moynihan Station read more »
Perils of Pataki: Tied to Tracks on Moynihan Station
Governor George Pataki’s aides are scrambling to get the jackhammers going at Moynihan Station in read more »
In Big Slow Brooklyn Build, Is It Affordable Housing Last?
Bruce Ratner and Michael Bloomberg.
What if Bruce Ratner never finished his gargantuan arena-and-housing development in central Brooklyn read more »
In Big Slow Brooklyn Build, Is It Affordable Housing Last?
What if Bruce Ratner never finished his gargantuan arena-and-housing development in central Brooklyn read more »
It's Alex Garvin's Town; You'll Never Live In It
Alex Garvin has been Dan Doctoroff’s favorite urban planner for about seven years now, ever since read more »
It’s Alex Garvin’s Town; You’ll Never Live In It
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Michael Bloomberg.
Alex Garvin has been Dan Doctoroff’s favorite urban planner for about seven years now, ever si read more »
The Shape of Things to Come: View City in the Year 2026!
For the past year or so, Mayor Bloomberg’s top brains have been working, sometimes fitfully, alway read more »
The Shape of Things to Come: View City in the Year 2026!
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Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff.
For the past year or so, Mayor Bloomberg’s top brains have been working, sometimes fitfully, a read more »
At Con Ed Site, Solow Takes a Cue From His Peers
It’s been almost 10 years since Consolidated Edison decided to sell off its nine prime waterfront read more »
At Con Ed Site, Solow Takes a Cue From His Peers
Anna Del Gaizo
The old Con Ed plant will be replaced with an enormous residential and commercial devlopment.
It’s been almost 10 years since Consolidated Edison decided to sell off its nine prime waterfr read more »
Titan of Tenements Stakes Out West Side
Mayor Michael Bloomberg failed to bring the Jets to the West Side. read more »
Titan of Tenements Stakes Out West Side
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Michael Bloomberg would have liked to see a development centered on an Olympic stadium at the West Side rail yards, but rising real-estate mogul Baruch Singer likely has other plans.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg failed to bring the Jets to the West Side. read more »
After “Race” Battle, Dan Goldstein Charges On
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A Brooklyn protestor.
"A woman just called me up from Queens. read more »
After "Race" Battle, Dan Goldstein Charges On
"A woman just called me up from Queens. read more »
We're Not Easy: Can City Seduce '08 Democrats?
In an almost quadrennial ritual mating dance between New York and the Democrats that has persisted t read more »
We’re Not Easy: Can City Seduce ’08 Democrats?
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Jonathan Tisch.
In an almost quadrennial ritual mating dance between New York and the Democrats that has persisted t read more »
City-State Battle Looms At New Moynihan Station
The plan to turn the Farley Post Office building at Eighth Avenue and 33rd Street into a commuter-ra read more »
City-State Battle Looms At New Moynihan Station
Melanie Flood
The site of the proposed Moynihan Station.
The plan to turn the Farley Post Office building at Eighth Avenue and 33rd Street into a commuter-ra read more »
Speaker Quinn Still Mum On Atlantic Yards Arena
Last week, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn asked Letitia James, who represents the Prospect Hei read more »
Speaker Quinn Still Mum On Atlantic Yards Arena
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City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has opposed stadium projects before; but then, she wasn
Last week, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn asked Letitia James, who represents the Prospect Hei read more »
Downtown Developers Lobby for Rail Link
George Pataki.
A few years ago, supporters of a new train to J.F.K. read more »
Downtown Developers Lobby for Rail Link
A few years ago, supporters of a new train to J.F.K. read more »
N.Y.U., Columbia Make A Mint on Real Estate
The Palladium, a part of N.Y.U.
About once a year, New York University president John Sexton offers himself up like a martyr to a cr read more »
N.Y.U., Columbia Make A Mint on Real Estate
About once a year, New York University president John Sexton offers himself up like a martyr to a cr read more »
Zero Memorial On Bumpy Path For Its Millions
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Gretchen Dykstra.
Back in the heady days of 2003, no one seemed to want to talk about how much the World Trade Center read more »
Zero Memorial On Bumpy Path For Its Millions
Back in the heady days of 2003, no one seemed to want to talk about how much the World Trade Center read more »
The Yankees' $700,000 Play: 'It Is Not A Shakedown.'
Back in the late 1980’s, developers of controversial projects were so desperate to get into the go read more »
The Yankees’ $700,000 Play: ‘It Is Not A Shakedown.’
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George Steinbrenner
Back in the late 1980’s, developers of controversial projects were so desperate to get into th read more »
It's Urinetown 2006: Green Architects Use Heads of the Future
The architect Robert Fox, a partner at Cook + Fox Architects in New York, was talking about his favo read more »
