Bill Rudin

From Curbed: "In a 6-4 vote, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has approved the hardship application put forth by St. Vincent's Hospital to demolish the O'Toole Building in Greenwich Village. The razing of the loved/hated 'Overbite Building' is part of the St. Vincent's/Rudin Management extremely controversial redevelopment proposal for the hospital, which sits in the protected Greenwich Village Historic District. St. Vincent's had argued that the O'Toole spot is the only one that makes sense for its new 30ish story medical tower."

More on the Rudin plans and the whole controversy here.

After its plans received an emphatic “no” from the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission earlier this month, St. Vincent’s hospital is coming back with a slightly revised plan to build in the historic West Village a new medical center coupled with a residential development by Rudin Management.

The Landmarks Commission sent back the plans, saying that it could not support the demolition of so many buildings within the historic district.

Now, St. Vincent’s has submitted an application pleading hardship, a claim that the hospital hopes will receive a more sympathetic response from the commissioners.  read more »

Here is David Paterson talking to Bill Rudin, the head of the Association for a Better New York, the business group hosting a breakfast in midtown where the governor will speak shortly.

The event comes hours after congestion pricing was killed, and in the middle of a long, drawn-out budget negotiation that isn't over yet.

The debate over a proposed new hospital complex for St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers and the accompanying development of apartments and townhouses is heating up as the plan goes before the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission for a hearing on Tuesday.  read more »

The first public hearing on the Rudin Management Company's plans for the site of St. Vincent Hospital in Greenwich Village will be this evening at 6:30 at P.S. 41 at 116 West 11th Street. Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, emailed us the announcement on Monday night.

He called Rudin's plan "almost unprecedented in its scope, especially in the Greenwich Village Historic District."

Rudin last year bought eight buildings at 12th Street and Seventh Avenue that St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers is vacating as part of a consolidation. Bill Rudin, president of Rudin Management, talked to The Observer's John Koblin in June about the plans, which would include an apartment complex on the east side of Seventh:  read more »

Spotted at 1 p.m. at the Grill Room in the Four Seasons today: Bill Rudin, Mort Zuckerman and Christine Quinn, all at separate tables.

Ms. Quinn, the City Council Speaker, stopped by Mr. Rudin’s table at the beginning of lunch; Mr. Rudin, scion of one of the city's oldest real estate families, stopped by Ms. Quinn’s table at the end. Mr. Zuckerman, the chairman of Boston Properties, stayed put as far as we could tell.

The Times had a story on Friday about the biggest bundlers for the major Presidential candidates. Bundlers assemble large amounts of campaign donations on behalf of candidates.

It turns out that Bill Rudin is one of Senator Hillary Clinton's biggest bundlers—he's a bona fide Hillraiser, in fact. And Don Trump Jr. bundles for former Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Bill Rudin talks about developing in the Village, giving back to New York, and why even he doesn’t know how high the building-sales market can go.  read more »

The Rudin family has agreed to pay $516 per zoning square foot to take over the eight hospital buildings at Seventh Avenue and 12th Street that St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers plan to leave as part of a massive consolidation. The hospital announced the deal in preparation for filing for permission from bankruptcy court to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the family, which had won the rights to the site through a year-long bidding process. The revenue from the deal would partially fund a new tower on the site of the O'Toole building on the west side of Seventh Avenue, where the hospital is seeking to consolidate its operations.  read more »

Clear Channel Communications, the pubic turned private radio empire, is consolidating five local off  read more »

Guess what question Hillary Clinton got first in a Q&A this morning?

"Well," she said. "That's alright. You kind of threw me off a little talking about my grandfather coming here in 1881." Bill Rudin, the event's MC--who kissed Mrs. Clinton on the cheek three times in two different instances without freaking her out as Andrew Cuomo reportedly had last week--had mentioned that his family and Mrs. Clinton's had immigrated around the same time.

Mrs. Clinton said her grandfather, one of eight children, worked in the Scranton mills, made it to foreman, and retired with a gold watch that he always wore. She got a little choked up. Not too much, but it was striking.

And the answer of the day is: "I'm blessed. I am going to think about the future. I have no decision, I have made no plans. I haven't really even had a time to talk to people. I'm open to thoughts."

-- Choire Sicha

By the time Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York finally hits the theaters Christmas Day, it will be  read more »