This month in real estate history: Sale of beachfront hospital nixed, Marriott Marquis faces uncertain fate … & more

From the July issue: The owner of a five-foot-wide “spite house”— built in the midst of a vendetta between neighbors — secured a permit to expand his building onto city land, prompting neighborhood outrage, the New York Times reported 112 years ago this month. A state court killed the city controller’s plans to sell a former tubercular hospital in the Rockaways to private developers, the New York Times reported 61 years ago this month. Global hotel developer and architect John Portman secured an extension to purchase several pieces of land for his proposed 54-story Times Square hotel, the New York Times reported 42 years ago this month.