Freedom! 2,000 businesses to escape commercial rent tax
Some 2,000 businesses in Manhattan won’t have to pay a pesky commercial rent tax. The City Council approved a...
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At the desk of: Dan Garodnick
From the November issue: City Council member Dan Garodnick represents New York City’s 4th District, which spans a large swath of Manhattan’s East Side, from Murray Hill to the Upper East Side with Koreatown and...
City Council vs. de Blasio: Mayor isn’t a fan of reformed commercial rent tax
A proposal to declaw Manhattan’s commercial rent tax has pitted Mayor Bill de Blasio against his own party. A...
Get ready for a ton of new office space (maybe): City Council greenlights rezoning of Midtown East
The City Council on Wednesday cleared the way for 6.5 million square feet of new office space to rise in Midtown East. The council...
Does the proposed Midtown East rezoning incentivize Pfizer to skip town?
The density boost that the Pfizer headquarters will automatically get under the Midtown East rezoning means that the pharmaceutical...
Could the Midtown East air rights floor price be on the chopping block?
City Council member Dan Garodnick on Tuesday introduced a bill that will require the city to audit every air...
The Feds should be on the hook for Trump Tower security costs: Mark-Viverito, Garodnick
City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Council member Dan Garodnick have launched a petition aimed at forcing the federal...
City puts noisy developers on notice
Developers may soon be forced to display their noise mitigation plans on construction site fences, thanks to a City Council bill aimed at catching developers who make a ruckus.
Here’s the latest talk on the Midtown East rezoning
Is it strange that the city is helping the state pay for transit improvements? Sure, but the alternative, according...
37 state and city lawmakers make the case for 421g tenants
Residents of 90 West Street, who are suing their landlord Kibel Companies for allegedly deregulating apartments rent-stabilized under the...