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BRUSSELSThe euro zone will release the next tranche of loans for Greece as well as money for bank recapitalization only after Athens implements agreed reforms, euro zone finance ministers said, noting a Greek pledge the conditions would be met this week. A European Central Bank Stress test showed at the end of October that…
Back in June of 2014, YIMBY reported on new building applications filed by JDS Development for a tower coming to 340 Flatbush Avenue Ext., on the southeastern edge of Downtown Brooklyn. Now, we have the first rendering and actual details for the SHoP-designed tower, which will rise 1,000 feet tall, claiming the title of New York…
gallery js end gallery js start of gallery code fullscreen [UPDATE BELOW] One man was killed and two others were injured during a shooting in Midtown Manhattan this morning. According to the NYPD, the shooting took place around around 6:14 a.m., at 8th Avenue and 35th Street. A 43-year-old man was pronounced dead at the…
Some American radio listeners might have been surprised last year to hear a news account explaining how pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong “failed without the support of the people of Hong Kong.” In fact, a large percentage of local residents joined the demonstrations until they were forcibly suppressed under orders from Beijing. Listeners would have…
The record high for today is 74 degrees set in 1948. As of 11 a.m. it was 71 in Central Park. Whether we warm four more degrees to set a new record it entirely up to the clouds at this point. A few breaks of sun would do the trick but the latest forecasts have…
The mayor joined elected and city officials and the developers for a ceremonial dirt toss at the Beach Channel Senior Apartments site. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Katie Honan FAR ROCKAWAY — More than two thirds of the new affordable housing planned for Queens will be built on the Rockaway peninsula, a flood zone still…
Having disappeared from the daily headline news, Greece – whose political sovereignty may or may not exist any more, following the farcical development from this summer’s “referendum” and the subsequent third bailout – was supposed to be fixed, if only for the time being, and its economy and society back on a normally functioning track….
The Four Horsemen of Gentrification. Then I saw when the Landlord broke one of the rent-controlled seals. I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Gentrify.” I looked, and behold, a green horse, and he who sat on it had a mason jar; and a fedora was his…
The Driggs, a luxury apartment building in Brooklyn, received a $631,000 tax break this year. (Cezary Podkul/ProPublica) As gleaming new housing towers spring up around New York City, thousands of new rent-stabilized apartments are coming onto the market. And in return for following rent limits, developers get a share of $1 billion in property…
Begin: Right Rail Advertisement Container End: Right Rail Advertisement Container Begin: WordPress Article Content In California, a state built on the idealism and tacit cruelty of real estate capitalism, no one is innocent. That’s no different with Airbnb and Proposition F, merely the latest of San Francisco’s Brobdingnagian sagas over land-use politics that will go down in today’s election….