Aby Rosen's Hidden Jewel
From the moment you walk through the doors of 757 Third Avenue, you know the building is different from the average, anonymous East Side office tower. One of the lesser works of the monolithic Emery...
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Uncanny Valley: The Real Reason There Are No Skyscrapers in the Middle of...
Twin peaks. (Jason Barr) Among the reasons New York has the finest skyline in the world—consider that a statement of fact, not opinion—is not simply the skyscrapers bounding up the island of Manhattan...
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Discounts Galore! Century 21 May Bring Bargains to Fulton Mall
Shiny new sales. (Brownstoner) If the Fulton Mall is being transformed, it is only so much. The strip is being glammed up, stocked with major national retailers, at the cost of the mom and pops who...
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Silverstein: Gimme Two Years and I'll Have My 3 WTC Tenant
Not giving up, going up. (Getty Images) So maybe it wasn't a bombshell after all, the "news" yesterday that Larry Silverstein might not be able to finish 3 World Trade Center all the way, leaving it...
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World Trade Center Redevelopment Now 35 Percent More Expensive
Rising towers, rising costs. (Getty) The Port Authority has just released the preliminary findings of its agency-wide review, the biggest, if least surprising, news of which is that the cost of...
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Mayor Bloomberg Defends WTC Pricetag While Christie Is Mum
Going up, regardless. (Getty) The latest bad news at ground zero is that costs continue to mount for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center. A report that found costs rose 85 percent since the...
View ArticleNow We Get It: Minsikoff’s 51 Astor May Be New York’s Strangest New Building
It's one of the more unusual buildings in the city—an office building smack in the middle of Astor Place, designed by one of the world's top architects. But as Edward Minsikoff's 51 Astor Place,...
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Hate Mail: Anti-Walmart Group Sends Postcards Slamming Steve Ross to All...
While Walmart refuses to say if, when or where it might finally open a store within the five boroughs, one of its favored sites is the Related Company's Gateway Center Mall in the far reaches of...
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Related Companies, Larry Silverstein Also Bidding on Domino
The Community Preservation Organization announced Monday it had entered negotiations to sell the Domino Sugar Factory to the residential development and investment firm Two Trees for over $160 million....
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Talk About Windows! Microsoft Poised to Sign 400,000-Square-Foot Lease at 11...
Microsofties. Steven J. Pozycki has reeled in his white whale as one of the most sought after tenants in the entire city has landed at one of its most troubled office towers. According to numerous...
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Microsoft Mum on Its Tentative Move to 11 Times Square
A Microsoft spokesperson just sent over the following statement in response to The CO's story yesterday that the Seattle-based software giant was poised to sign a 15-year lease for 400,000 square feet...
View ArticleJigga Scam: Jay Z Us Wait With No Brooklyn Booze and Water That Costs More...
The Barclays Center is open, and like Brooklyn’s favorite son who has been performing there all week, the arena lives up to the hype. It may not be universally loved, for its tortured past or...
View ArticleOn the Waterfront, There’s No Place Like Home: Mayor Bloomberg’s Tidal Wave...
Portions of this story have already run on Observer.com in different posts. This story appears in the October 31 print edition of The Observer. You can find links to the original posts at the end of...
View ArticleOne57 Crane Is Secure, West 57th Street Block Reopens a Day Early
Well, the recovery continues faster than expected in New York. We’ve got subways almost miraculously coming back to life after flooding throughout the system, and now the securing of the crane boom...
View ArticleGround Zero Again: Construction Resumes at World Trade Center
After the Hudson flooded into the World Trade Center during Hurricane Sandy, it was remarkable that the site had been pumped out and work had resumed within days rather than weeks. Now, construction...
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