Round-Up
Green Day: April 4, 2008
General Motors expects to have 1,000 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in operation in the state of California between 2012 and 2014. [Automotive World (sub. req.)] read more »
Green Day: April 3, 2008
- Apple has filed an official objection to New York City's attempt to trademark a new logo, in the shape of an apple, for its GREENYC campaign. An early placement of the apple logo on reusable shopping bags, produced in conjunction with Whole Foods, is causing mass confusion, the Cupertino, Calif. company argues. [wired.com]
- New York is joining that multi-state suit against the Environmental Protection Agency over air pollutants.
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Green Day: March 24, 2008
More than 70 major corporations will meet with environmental scientists at The Wild Center in the Adirondacks in June to "produce a slate of possible policy and regulatory options to overcome market and other barriers that are inhibiting implementation of substantial low-cost greenhouse gas emission reductions." [usclimateaction.org] read more »
Green Day: March 13, 2008
Paterson will be a strong governor from an environmental standpoint, but he's no Arnold Schwarzenegger, according to an analysis of his record by Jerome Woody. [grist.org]
Last night, the E.P.A. announced "a modest tightening" of its smog standard, despite the unanimous call of the agency's scientists to adopt a more protective standard. [The New York Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Friday
Largest ever recreation building constructed in a city park opens today in Queens. [NY Times]
Sign that speaks of the World Trade Center in the present tense to be removed. [NY Times]
Owner of Brooklyn home linked to Underground Railroad may lose it to foreclosure. [NY Post] read more »
The Afternoon Wrap: Tuesday
What says luxury like an amenity that condo owners rarely use but that drives common charges sky-high? Here's a list of the top 10 indoor pools in Manhattan. [Curbed] read more »
The Round-Up: Thursday
Government agency and private contractors (but not the Fire Department) are being sued by the sister of the fire fighter who was killed in the Deutsche Bank blast. [NY Times]
UBS is bracing for a downturn in 2008 after it revealed $26.6 billion worth of exposure to risky US mortgages. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Wednesday
Project Lifeline: Bush's plan to stem a wave of foreclosures was endorsed by six major mortgage lenders, but critics say it will only stave off the inevitable. [NY Times]
A safety director has been hired to oversee all the construction projects at Ground Zero. [NY Post] read more »
The Round-Up: Tuesday
The credit crisis is spreading past subprime mortgages. As home values fall and loan repayments increase, even prime borrowers are falling behind in their home, auto loan, and credit card payments. [NY Times] read more »
The (Big) Round-Up: Monday
"Love me, Love my apartment": In New York's tight real estate market, couples are drawn closer together and sometimes pitted apart. [NY Times]
Habitats: From the "open air mall" of the East Village to the more "down to earth" neighborhood of Forte Greene. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Wednesday
Square Feet: Condo and co-op developers actually favor higher filing fees and more government regulation. [NY Times]
AXA is keeping Sixth Avenue digs and expanding into Jersey City. [NY Post] read more »
The Round-Up: Tuesday
On Wall Street, neither humiliation, defeat nor a $34 billion write-down mean professional exile. [NY Times]
In January, all five boroughs posted the sharpest annual one-month rise for foreclosures in two years. [NY Post]
First look at Boston Properties' Eighth Avenue tower. [NY Post] read more »
The (Big) Round-Up: Monday
In a sign of worse to come, home prices in New York are finally starting to drop. Some predict the fallout could be worse than when the "real estate bubble" burst in the eighties. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Friday
New York candidates awash in real estate cash. Top contributors are companies engaged in development battles. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Wednesday
Foreign retailers follow their shoppers to New York. [NY Times]
Greenwich Village community group opposes "Las Vegas on the Hudson." [NY Times]
NYU hammers out accord with its critics on expansion. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Tuesday
High construction costs may curtail MTA's work. [NY Times]
Amid legal disputes and the credit-crunch, Forest City Ratner is having trouble financing its $4 billion Atlantic Yards project. [NY Times] read more »
The (Big) Round-Up: Monday
Houses of worship struggle against years of neglect and acquisitive developers. [NY Times]
The Hunt: Finding an apartment when you don't know where you're going to work. [NY Times]
Commuting: The ferocity and the fun. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Friday
A modified version of Bloomberg's congestion pricing scheme is likely to be endorsed at the final meeting of the traffic reduction panel next week. [NY Times]
The median housing price in the US dropped for the first time since 1990 last year. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Thursday
Home and Garden: Making dark rooms glow. [NY Times]
Gimme Shelter: Actor Steve Van Zandt bid on a three bedroom home in a church on West Fourth Street. [NY Post]
The South Brooklyn water taxi service will be suspended on February 1. [NY Post] read more »
The Round-Up: Wednesday
Rising real estate prices are driving cost of rehearsal space up, taking a toll on the city's musicians. [NY Times]
A Manhattan co-op's experience with solar heating. [NY Times]
Bank of America joines parade of mortgage-related losses. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Tuesday
Sheldon Solow's lawsuit may deter potential bidders from making an offer on rival developer Harry Macklowe's GM Building. [NY Times]
Tenants of Kent Street building worry about their future, after the goverment-ordered evacuation forced them from their apartments over the weekend. [NY Times] read more »
The (Big) Round-Up: Monday
A law changed last month will allow co-ops to increase rent they charge commercial tenants. [NY Times]
The Hunt: After two decades on the Upper East Side, newly widowed woman eyes DUMBO. [NY Times]
Columbia woos NYU law professor with a lavish Upper West Side apartment. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Friday
A developer is looking for financing to build a $150 million luxury tower in what would be Newark's first residential construction in four decades. [NY Times]
A group of book scavenging homeless men boost inventory at the Strand Bookstore. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Wednesday
Gains in New York property values are expected to flatten out to their lowest levels since the beginning of the Bloomberg administration. [NY Times]
A contractor involved in Monday's accident at Trump Soho has a history of safety violations on other Manhattan worksites. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Tuesday
Buildings Department ordered that work on Trump Soho be halted, following the death of a construction worker Monday. [NY Times]
Crackdown on Suffolk County landlords is criticized as harassment of immigrants. [NY Times] read more »
Overset: James Wolcott, Howell Raines, Margaret Atwood, and More Maureen Dowd
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles beat out that weird Golden Globes whatever-it-was in last night's ratings. (The Hollywood Reporter)
James Wolcott signed a two-book deal with Doubleday. One is for a memoir of New York in the 1970's, the other is a collection of his writing. (Publishers Weekly)
Margaret Atwood just delivered her first manuscript in five years; it's untitled. (CBC)
There was some shuffling that, deep down, involves More and Marie-Claire. We'll figure it out off-hours. (Eat the Press)
There is something kind of unseemly about Esquire's stoutly promotional cover-spread advising men to shop at Victoria's Secret. (Jeff Bercovici)
Rachel Sklar has devoted some serious pixels to the ongoing Maureen Dowd dateline debate; it's a good place to catch up. (Eat the Press)
Former New York Times executive editor Howell "Change Agent" Raines will write a media column for Portfolio. (Howard Kurtz)
And here's why, for now at least, we are calling this new daily end-of-day round-up what we're calling it.
The (Big) Round-Up: Monday
The Port Authority defends costly excavation delays at World Trade Center site. [NY Times]
Fast-casual restaurant chains appealing to New York "foodies" are proliferating in the city. [NY Times]
New York's real estate market is expected to slump in 2008. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Friday
Property owner refuses to part with four buildings in the path of Columbia's planned expansion. [NY Times]
New Yorkers are paying more than ever to heat their homes this winter. [NY Times]
Revenues fell at most Atlantic City casinos in 2007, report says. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Thursday
The city rescinds a regulation limiting the size of crowds allowed on the Great Lawn. [NY Times]
Lawsuit charges state with conflict of interest over Catskills ski resort. [NY Times]
Some experienced entrepeneurs and niche realtors have kept the housing crisis at bay. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Wednesday
Governor Corzine proposes steep rise in tolls to cover state's debt. [NY Times]
After five months of inactivity, demolition of Deutsche Bank building is close to resuming. [NY Times]
Citigroup combining mortgage operations into one unit. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Tuesday
"Madison Square Garden's 'Godfather,' without the respect." [NY Times]
Governor Spitzer may propose a cap on property tax increases in address Wednesday. [NY Times]
The chief executive of Bear Stearns expected to step down. [NY Times] read more »
The (Big) Round-Up: Monday
South Bronx has yet to benefit from construction of Yankees Stadium. [NY Times]
From closet to condo in Jersey City. [NY Times]
High Line park development lures condo buyers to West Chelsea. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Friday
Bloomberg will reduce the number of parking permits issued to city employees by 20 percent. [NY Times]
Port Authority is expected to halve the proposed fare increase for PATH trains on Friday. [NY Times]
State Street Corp. is sued over pension fund losses tied to mortgage securities. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Thursday
Average price of an apartment roses tp $1.4 million in fourth quarter of '07. [NY Times]
Gentrification of downtown White Plains makes low-income residents uneasy. [NY Times]
"Home office life and its discontents": Design solutions for growing number of Americans working at home. [NY Times] read more »
In This Week's Observer...
George Mitchell, ex-Senator and steriod sheriff, sells his $6.6 million condo.
Supermodel Jessica Stam buys in the Village for $1.9 million.
How to break a Manhattan apartment sales record.
Governor Eliot Spitzer talks development. read more »
The Round-Up: Wednesday
Big makeovers for office buildings outside of midtown. [NY Times]
City Council plans session at Deutsche Bank building. [NY Times]
Construction of midair park continues at defunct railway site on Far West Side. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Tuesday
Mayor Bloomberg in 2008? If so, the paper chase starts soon. [NY Times]
Governor Corzine embarks on New Jersey road show for plan to cut state's debt with toll roads. [NY Times]
New Yorkers crossing the East River loose a water taxi today. [NY Times] read more »
The (Big) Round-Up: Monday
The Pierre closes Monday for a year of renovations. [NY Times]
Monday marks the 100-year anniversary of the first New Year's ball. [NY Times]
City homeowners cash in on widening gap between prices in New York and the suburbs. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Friday
Heavy rainfall, leaky pipes, and debris caused the fatal steam pipe explosion in Midtown Manhattan last July, Con Ed report says. [NY Times]
Mayor Bloomberg's choice of successor to replace his departing deputy, Dan Doctoroff, underscores the Mayoral aide's continued influence over city development. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Thursday
City to double its police program to reduce crime. [NY Times]
Marketing home decor for a conflicted era. [NY Times]
State's 49-deck truss bridges safe enough, report finds, but many in need of maintenance. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Wednesday
Single-family home prices nationwide drop steeply in October. [NY Times]
Amsterdam Avenue offering some prime retail spots on the Upper West Side. [NY Times]
Trump Place, Battery Park City residents earn a lot, according to IRS filings. [NY Post] read more »
The Round-Up: Tuesday
Fed shrugged as subprime mortgage crisis spread. [NY Times]
The Port Authority is expected to approve new deal to bring international shopping center back to ground zero. [NY Times]
MTA tries to sweeten fare hike with service improvements beginning in June. [NY Times] read more »
The (Big) Round-Up: Monday
A partner in Trump SoHo rose from a tangled past. [NY Times]
New York region is now the "bash and build" capital of the U.S. Teardowns make terrible neighbors until it is time to sell. [NY Times]
Daniel Radcliffe, aka Harry Potter, is renting the $4.3 million Mercer Street apartment he bought last month for $20,000. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Friday
Citigroup rescues seven affiliated funds hit by subprime mortgage crisis. [NY Times]
The collapsed scaffold that killed two window washers last week had 10 violations. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Thursday
Lawyer claims suspect in Linda Stein murder was coerced. [NY Times]
Office building workers authorize a strike starting Jan. 1. [NY Times]
Bianca is kicked out of moldy apartment. [NY Post] read more »
The Round-Up: Wednesday
City Council approves landmark status for Williamsburg's Domino Sugar Refinery. [City Room]
Pig-investor Jay-Z looks to hotels. [NY Post]
Landlord lawsuit bill killed. [NYDN] read more »
The Round-Up: Tuesday
Office-building workers may strike. [NY Times]
Madison Square Park gets toilets. [NY Post]
Resident above restaurant is too noisy. That's a first. [NY Post] read more »
The (Big) Round-Up: Monday
Javits plans get toned down, but they'll still fix that leaky roof. [NY Times]
Upper West Side school to get rid of its middle-income housing. [NY Times]
9/11 brings one man back to the city, to settle in a Chelsea studio. [NY Times] read more »
The Round-Up: Friday
State's real estate partnerships may have evaded $5 billion of taxes. [NY Times]
Madonna sues Central Park West co-op board. [NY Post]
Law firm moves downtown. [NY Post] read more »
The Round-Up: Thursday
The Steves of Vornado try to convince Macy's to move to Moynihan. [NY Times]
City launches program to counsel against foreclosures. [NY Post]
Meatpacking District gets ready for its first apple. [NYDN] read more »
