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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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January 30, 2008 at 3:44 pm ET
It's been a while since we've taken a look at the huge two-block site of The Edge in Williamsburg, which may have one of the nicest backdrops of any big hole in the city. The ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 2:57 pm ET
As advertised, NYU president John Sexton, Manhattan beep Scott Stringer and a coterie of Greenwich Village politicians and activists held a press conference today to announce the principles that NYU will supposedly follow while the ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 2:33 pm ET
Call up the bank and tell 'em you're refinancing that sucker, because the Fed just cut interest rates by another half a point, down to 3%. It's the second cut in eight days, and this ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 2:32 pm ET
Our old friend 80 Metropolitan in Williamsburg has been the site of statements here and there expressing sentiments about development in the neighborhood. The site has been cleaned up, but every now and then, someone ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 2:19 pm ET
Genuine downtown lofts in the million-dollar range tend to be a hot commodity, so our eyes were drawn to this little number, new to market on Broadway just below Astor Place, asking $1.295 million. It's ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 2:00 pm ET
On almost every windy day, there's some sort of construction accident lately. So it is today, with particularly deadly consequences in Clinton Hill. A worker at a 13-story building was reportedly blown from a window ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 1:46 pm ET
Arris Lofts may be the friendliest building ever, but at least one resident in the new luxury Long Island City condo building is slightly fed up. This building is a radioactive topic whenever it pops ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 1:16 pm ET
The Interboro Brewing Company went to the big brewery in the sky in 1920, when it closed because of Prohibition. Its remains are still very visible, though, and quite picturesque in a fallen industry kind ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 12:49 pm ET
Back in October, Dumbo overlords Two Trees filed scoping plans for the former Verizon parking lot the company had scooped up in Hell's Kitchen for a cool $130 million. Bounded by Tenth and Eleventh Avenues ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 12:30 pm ET
Bonjour Capital and real estate developer/investor Joseph Chetrit are in contract to buy the landmarked 5 Beekman Street—the twin-towered 10-story structure that was the third city building to have an elevator installed—and they will most ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 12:03 pm ET
Let us now take a very visual look at architecture and design as lately revealed on our West Coast sites Curbed LA and Curbed SF. Enjoy. 1) The Self-Anchored Suspension Span, with its single cable ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 11:55 am ET
[Photos courtesy of Archinect] The Fourth Annual Master Disaster Architects duel happened last night at the (sold out) Music Hall of Williamsburg, pitting FXFowle against Brooklyn-based Konyk. Archinect live blogged the whole hipster architecture face ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 11:25 am ET
If there's anyone in Carroll Gardens or Cobble Hill that has an apartment available and needs a shrink, there may be an opportunity. There's a sign hanging in Monteleone's on Court Street offering counseling in ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 10:54 am ET
As the Hudson River Park Trust prepares to vote on the Pier 40 proposals, the Times offers up a hilarious bit of intel. Apparently, some who prefer Related's Vegas on the Hudson proposal are referring ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 10:53 am ET
[Left photo via Miss Rachael/flickr; right photo via Sageey/flickr] Yesterday, Brownstoner had a big Brooklyn Heights scoop: Watchtower is putting one of the neighborhood's biggest landmark old hotel's on the market. Today, the story of ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 10:33 am ET
For the city's hip hoteliers, buying a decrepit but historic single-room occupancy building is an easy target for expanding a burgeoning empire. Just toss out the bums, restore the hotel to its earlier grandeur, add ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 9:58 am ET
"It’s not just that Brooklyn brownstone neighborhoods are getting comparably expensive to Manhattan; it’s that they’re getting a lot more expensive at a time when Manhattan seems to have topped out." The median rent in ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 9:53 am ET
NYU followed up on its promise last month to conduct a community-outreach thingy with critics of the school's planned expansion, and surprisingly, the effort didn't just result in name-calling and pie-throwing. Per the Times and ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 9:40 am ET
· 'Eviction-loving' Pinnacle selling 22 buildings [NYO] · The 'rugged grace' of the dance of the concrete trucks [NYT] · Great news: expensive hotel rates make cheating more exciting [NYO] · 51st state: it's time ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 9:15 am ET
Brooklyn Bridge Park has broken ground for, uh, the third time since 2001, but everyone is seriously convinced that this ground breaking might actually result in a park. It's the start of the first part ... (more)

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January 30, 2008 at 8:46 am ET
Even though the MTA will not decide on a Hudson Yards developer until at least March, Morgan Stanley has put out a request for proposals for an architect to design its headquarters at the site. ... (more)

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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January 29, 2008 at 5:30 pm ET
· Not a typo: 15 CPW unit sells for $690K. Is it a closet? [Real Deal] · Back to 'square one' with Fulton Transit Center [2nd Ave. Sagas] · Silverstein says GM Bldg is 'a ... (more)

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January 29, 2008 at 5:20 pm ET
HARLEM—Writes a distraught tipster, "I just noticed that they knocked down the beautiful Church of the Master at the corner of W 122nd and Morningside Avenue (right). I thought they were just fixing the roof. ... (more)

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January 29, 2008 at 5:10 pm ET
"While I have to say not bad for Stern (cause we all know most of his stuff is crap), what I don't get is in this day and age why does it look like something ... (more)

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January 29, 2008 at 4:22 pm ET
In what is quite possibly the closest David Dunlap will ever come to panning a building in print, the Times scribe can't stop talking about how Robert A.M. Stern's 99 Church Street will screw with ... (more)

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