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It’s bad enough that Silicon Valley trounces New York City in venture-capital investment every quarter. But now it turns out that a software engineer in New York City has a lower standard of living, based on earnings, than his counterparts in every other tech hub of the country, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle,…
One of the benefits of private property is that whoever owns it can charge other people to use it. This is called rent. If people want to use this particular property very badly—that is to say, it is in “high demand”—the owner can charge a lot of rent. This is called capitalism. But some owners…
Tishman Speyer and H&R Real Estate Investment Trust’s development site on Jackson Avenue in Long Island City (Photo courtesy: Google Maps). first embed adBank of America Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo are providing Tishman Speyer and its joint venture partners with a $640 million construction loan on the developers’ three-tower luxury residential project in Long…
Roosevelt. Love it or hate it, the name resonates in American history. It means the rough-riding 26th president who guided the country at the start of the 20th century. It means the patrician 32nd president who led it through the Great Depression and World War II. It means the influential first lady — a Roosevelt…
gallery js end gallery js start of gallery code fullscreen Our latest Quick Bites brings us to Brooklyn for some Bunk sandwiches. THE VIBE There are five Bunk Sandwich shops in Portland, Oregon, and a quick tour around the Blogs of the Great Northwest quickly reveals that people out there love them, tossing about accolades…
FILE PHOTO FROM YESTERDAY (Nell Casey/Gothamist) “How about that L train?” has joined the official NYC Exasperation Lexicon alongside other familiar rhetorical questions like “It’s not a big group birthday dinner is it?” and “Is that raw sewage dripping from the ceiling?” This morning the old gal was up to her usual zany antics,…
MANHATTAN — Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to change some of the city’s existing zoning regulations as part of his 10-year plan to create 80,000 new affordable units of housing and preserve another 120,000. The 526-page plan has implications for every neighborhood in New York City. Department of City Planning officials have visited community boards…
We are now into week two of the media’s obsession with Donald Trump‘s claim to have seen thousands of New Jersey Muslims celebrating the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11, a claim that is at once patently false and worthy of endless debate. Enter former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to make…
The fancy building at 120 South Fourth Street has been evacuated after building inspectors found un-permitted and dangerous structural work inside. (Pix11) The residents of a pricey Williamsburg apartment building with a history of unpermitted construction were forced out last week after the Department of Buildings found that the building “has questionable structural integrity.”…
Yesterday, Breitbart Tech published a story claiming to debunk earlier reports that “white student union” pages that had popped up on Facebook over the weekend were a hoax. “People held out to talk to Breitbart because we knew that they are a respectable organization that would protect the privacy of the individuals involved,” the administrator…