FiDi residents fight W&L’s light-up hotel idea
Financial District neighbors are used to chaos during the day, but surprisingly conservative when it comes to nighttime disruptions....
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Pier 17 tower slammed as “stake in the heart” of Seaport
Neighbors of the South Street Seaport voiced opposition at a Community Board 1 meeting Tuesday over the Howard Hughes...
City halts South Street Seaport tower, launches task force
The city has put on hold Howard Hughes Corporation’s plan for a 50-story hotel and apartment tower at the...
City Council greenlights Greenpoint Landing
Bloomberg-era development projects are moving right along, with Two Trees Management’s Domino Sugar proposal getting the thumbs up from Community Board 1 and City Council passing Greenpoint Landing Associate’s controversial 10-tower Greenpoint Landing plan.
DDG’s 100 Franklin meets with hostility from residents
More than 800 people have signed a petition protesting a proposed Tribeca condominium being built by DDG Partners, saying...
In W’burg, it’s booze or bust for businesses
In Williamsburg, laid back drinking culture is such an important part of the neighborhood economy that even clothing retailers...
Who will investigate the accident at 4 WTC?
No conclusions have been reached so far about what caused a cable on a crane working at the 4 World Trade Center site to snap, sending steel beams crashing onto a flatbed truck 40...
Real estate firm offers Tribeca space for Sukkah after controversy
A Sukkah planned for Duane Park in Tribeca will instead be erected on an empty lot that is twice...
Downtown retail waits for its Condé moment
To look out the windows from the 10th floor of Larry Silverstein’s shiny new 7 World Trade Center is to take visual stock of how far Lower Manhattan has come since Sept. 11, 2001....
Brooklyn residents riled over halfway house
Greenpoint’s Community Board 1 is riled over a new plan to turn a $4 million loft building at 400 Mcguinness Boulevard into a halfway house for convicted felons, according to the Brooklyn Paper. The...