Frank Williams: Architect turns to building his name
November 01, 2007 12:00AM By Lauren Elkies
Frank Williams is the most famous New York-based architect the public has never heard of.
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Frank Williams is the most famous New York-based architect the public has never heard of.
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New York is getting a permanent Shigeru Ban building -- an 11-story boutique condominium named the Metal Shutter Houses.
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For the last two years, embattled Brooklyn architect Robert Scarano has been under the gun.
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The city's real estate dining hotspots aren't just its top ten restaurants.
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When Alan Bleviss, a small business owner who rented office space on far West 34th street between 10th and 11th avenues, received a letter from his new landlord telling him to relocate, he was disappointed but not surprised.
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While much of Manhattan appears to be largely insulated from the subprime loan fallout, some of the city's emergent areas may show a greater impact from the nationwide crisis. More
While it's quiet inside the lobby of the Lincoln Square Synagogue, step outside the round white building, and the sound of construction on the congregation's new home a block away is deafening.
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The nationwide credit crisis has reared its ugly head, but that doesn't mean development opportunities have disappeared in New York City. This month, The Real Deal explores the outlook for new condo projects in a series of stories. More
With so many high-rises going up in Israel's largest city, locals say their city is slowly beginning to look like New York. More
With 70,000 mortgage brokering jobs having been wiped out recently in the U.S., it's perhaps not the best time to be a mortgage broker. More
Five words above the doorway at the Bowery Poetry Club and Caf say it all: "Everything is subject to change."
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Wedged between Murray Hill, Gramercy Park, Union Square and the Flatiron District, Park Avenue South has long been home to a collection of nondescript office buildings, upscale restaurants, cell phone shops and carpet stores. It doesn't even have a catchy moniker. But all that's changing. Developers are turning the neighborhood into a more modern, residential thoroughfare by converting or tearing down some old office buildings and replacing them with splashy luxury hotels and condominiums, complete with high ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows and the occasional light-emitting diode. "Real estate has always been valuable in the neighborhood," said Alan Miller, a principal with Eastern Consolidated, a real estate firm. "It's just finally coming into its own [as a place to live]."
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Borough sees 65 percent jump in defaults over last quarter More
The night crawlers' neighborhood has attracted plenty of new residential construction, setting the stage for a showdown between developers and the nightclub scene.
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You'd think they wouldn't have time, but the players behind the New York City building boom are also active overseas.
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In Woodhaven, Queens, new construction is a rarity.
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For buyers and sellers of buildings, the world may not have come to an end -- but it's certainly shifted. More
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