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Tishman Speyer Properties, one of New York City’s most active real estate developers, had bought two parcels of land on the Far West Side of Manhattan to clear the way for a 2.8-million-square-foot office tower planned for Hudson Yards. Standing in the way, though, were the occupants of two apartments on the site. So this…
(via tipster) A straphanger taunted and lunged at two people with a tiny, sharp, pointy object on the A train on Friday night, threatening to cut them and get away with it while air kissing and waving at the subway passenger filming the incident. In a 2:15 video of the attack, the suspect dramatically…
(Facebook) A woman stepped through some shrubbery, climbed a ledge, and jumped to her death during a party on the roof of the 230 Fifth restaurant and lounge in the Flatiron District. An NYPD spokesman said the woman, 30, “entered the establishment, went to the ledge of building, and jumped from 20th floor.” It’s…
Luxury real estate firms in New York City make a lot of money helping wealthy foreigners exploit the state’s tax lawsnow some firms overseas want to share in the joy of being richly rewarded middlemen. The Times reports that real estate companies from Germany and London are expanding here to explicitly target New York’s “ever-expanding…
A mock-up of the view $100 million could buy you (Extell). We mentioned this in passing yesterday (because we immediately passed out from the numbers involved), but it’s worth diving into the nitty-gritty: a mystery buyer has shelled out over $100 million to buy a duplex in One57, one of the luxury skyscrapers on…
Midtown Manhattan will soon be teeming with luxury skyscrapers, thanks to all the development underway on 57th Street’s so-called Billionaires’ Row. But it appears that the rich people shopping for homes in these monsters might not know about all the other needle buildings that’ll be their neighbors, since developers have been conveniently erasing fellow skyscrapers…
The Hess Triangle outside of Village Cigars this week. (Photo by Sai Mokhtari/Gothamist) There is a small plot of land located outside of Village Cigars at Seventh Avenue and Christopher Street that’s got a big story behind it—it involves a headstrong landlord, the 7th Avenue subway extension, and the City of New York. The story…
HTML Element: 7.2509921 Forget about snakes on a plane — check out what was riding on this bus-s-s-s. A large snake, possibly a ball python, took a weekend ride on an MTA bus in Brooklyn. The slithering passenger was seen riding the B12 bus at East New York and Saratoga Aves. Shortly after…
So you want to live in New York City. The stereotypical “affluent young college graduate from Ohio coming to make his way in the big city”—that easily mocked demographic that can be ignored and dismissed out of hand as spoiled, or part of the problem—is only a small sliver of New York City residents. Most…
Michael Ip/for New York Daily News An off-duty cop has been arrested in Brooklyn on child molestation charges. An NYPD cop has been arrested in Brooklyn on child molestation charges. Jacob Sabbagh, 33, was busted in the 72nd Precinct in Sunset Park on Wednesday and charged with “course of sexual conduct against a…