Pols nudge Solow on East River plan 02/21/08 On Monday, the City Council will consider how high Sheldon Solow can build seven towers on a nine-acre mixed-use site just south of the United Nations. But today, the talk was a...
Starchitect tide lifts apprentices 02/18/08 From the February issue: The interest in innovative design in
New York City, which has allowed a number of the world's most famous
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Builders await looming Con Ed rate hike 02/08/08 Con Edison wants to jack up electricity rates by over 64 percent over the next three years, in part by charging higher rates during peak demand periods, and builders are plottin...
Koolhaas gets first big NYC commission 02/05/08 In December, the celebrated Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and his Rotterdam-based firm, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), finally won their first significant commis...
Starchitect tide lifts apprentices 02/05/08 The interest in innovative design in New York City, which has allowed a number of the world's most famous architects to win residential building commissions, is helping starchit...
Silverstein to build Four Seasons hotel-condo Downtown 01/29/08 Larry Silverstein, whose enthusiasm for Lower Manhattan has persevered through the protracted rebirth of his World Trade Center site, capped an upbeat view of Downtown's prospec...
Related cranks up energy-saving strategy 01/25/08 The Related Companies, which owns Time Warner Center and 26,000 apartments across the country, expects a few years of economic uncertainty and plans to respond by cutting long-t...
Greenpoint not at boiling point 01/18/08 From the January issue: The hipster haven of Greenpoint in Brooklyn may get a lot of real estate buzz, but for the moment it is a calm market, still awaiting an onslaught of new...
Community group commends Brookfield's Hudson Yards bid 01/09/08 The civic watchdog group that helped derail Mayor Bloomberg's plan for a stadium at the Hudson Yards site has thrown a bone to the bidder that is considered the long-shot for th...
Tenants scramble to stop UWS sale 01/07/08 A last-ditch tenants' effort to block a contracted sale of an affordable Upper West Side apartment complex could yield a creative deal that would help preserve the neighborhood’...
Greenpoint not at boiling point 12/31/07 Like other outer-borough neighborhoods on the cusp of becoming hot
spots, brokers are concerned the real estate slowdown is causing
Windsor Terrace to wobble. But unlike some ...
Governors Island design team announced 12/19/07 Governor Eliot Spitzer and Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the
winning design team at Governors Island, and officials talked up the
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Community groups voice Hudson Yards demands 12/13/07 When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a football stadium
for the New York Jets on the 26-acre Hudson Yards s...
Developers place their bets on Hudson Yards 11/21/07 The design proposals on display for a 26-acre site on Manhattan's Far West Side represent antes in a long contest. Each proposed mix of ...
Developers connect Hudson Yards to other projects 11/20/07 Proposals for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Hudson Yards land on the far West Side, which the agency put on display today, mig...
