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Friday, May 16, 2008

Friday PM Linkage

· Latest Real World Brooklyn location rumor: CROWN HEIGHTS! [Brooklynian]
· Broker-blogger Andrew Fine goes crazy, files update on every LIC condo [A Fine]
· St. Vincent's gears up for unveiling of revised proposal on Monday [Crain's]
· Harry Macklowe may be selling the old Drake Hotel site [NYP]
· Columbia University buys failed Riverdale condo development [TRD]
· Bike to Work Day fallout: was this the coolest dude on the street? [Streetsblog]
· Coney Island's new rollercoaster will be a lot bigger than the Cyclone ['Stoner]
· Big Gowanus development site Public Place goes green, gets seeded [GL]
· Little red piano confounds Carroll Gardens [Lost City]



Friday AM Linkage

· Gov. lives in rent-controlled $1,250/month 2BR Harlem apartment [Sun]
· David Byrne's organ in the Battery Maritime Building [Downtown Express]
· Heads up: steel disc falls 22 stories at Deutsche Bank building [NYP]
· Gov. trying to decide which agency will control Moynihan Station [amNY]
· Port Authority trying to avoid paying Silverstein late fees [Sun]
· Residents getting hosed by 14.5% water and sewer hike [NYP]
· Number of jobs in city up by 1.1% last month, mostly in construction, retail [NYT]
· Narrow Carroll Gardens streets take another step toward being narrow [GL]
· What if they didn't demolish the Kent Avenue Power Plant? [WGPA]
· Boerum Place in Downtown Brooklyn finally getting beautified [110 Livingston]


Thursday, May 15, 2008

Thursday PM Linkage

· What gentrification? Two old Jews spotted on the Lower East Side [VNY]
· Trump Soho left off list of new buildings with 'abs' [Sun]
· Tishman Speyer's huge Gotham Center in LIC's Queens Plaza moves forward [TRD}
· Durst/Vornado say Condé Nast will rejoin their Hudson Yards bid [TRE]
· Williamsburg can't stop groping its sultry beer babes [Gothamist]
· Starck-designed Morgans Hotel closing up shop for $9 renovation [NYology]
· Greenpoint rumormongering: church properties to yield more fingers? [NYShitty]



Thursday AM Linkage

· What will Wall St. carnage and a recession do the NYC office market? [Sun]
· Foreclosures causing major problems for condo owners everywhere [NYT]
· How four New Yorkers are fighting the despair of the credit crunch [NYP]
· MAS cites Piano, Gehry bldgs & Floating Pool as 'masterworks' [TRD]
· State making progress on capping property tax increases [Sun]
· Is the Parks Department dumping garbage in Queens wetland? [Queens Crap]
· Yes, it was Frank Sinatra Day in non-hipster Williamsburg [NYShitty]
· Is Sunset Park waterfront park another big stalled Brooklyn plan? [GL]
· Dumbo getting giant underground 'bladder' to hold its crap [Brownstoner]


Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Wednesday PM Linkage: Weekly Food Edition

· Bruni has two stars for preening 'ego food' at Upper West Side's Eighty One [NYT]
· RG comes dangerously close to panning De Niro's Ago, lives to tell tale [NYDN]
· East Village pizza sensation Artichoke apparently opens sometimes [GQ]
· Latest 'authentic' NYC BBQ joint Wildwood gets a B from Ed Levine [ELEats]
· Revamped The Harrison in Tribeca is flirting with perfection [TONY]
· Punjab, the go-to pre-Mercury Lounge spot, will now be very crowded [NYT]
· Members-only Soho rooftop lounge A60 opens for the season today [Eater]
· A Queens taco truck that'll transport you to the magical land of L.A. [GofaG]
· Food battle of the boroughs: Staten Island wins something [NYP]



Wednesday AM Linkage

· Larry Silverstein holds forth on the NYC real estate market [NYT]
· Good news: NYC's wedding-industrial complex is holding up okay [NYO]
· Beat the traffic: Hamptons Helicard is yours for $28K-$82K [Sun]
· SoBro residents fighting possibility Vornado may close their supermarket [NYDN]
· Longshoreman's mural at Cruise Terminal which couldn't displace them [BDE]
· The Great Battle of Union Hall continues tonight at Borough Hall [Gothamist]
· Can Cobble Hill compete with Park Slope as Brooklyn's Stroller Capital? [GL]
· Slope's Fifth Ave. is 1950s Paris in Julia Child movie shoot [Velvet Sea]


Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Tuesday PM Linkage

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[Taking out the trash on 14th Street, via NYC Blog?!]

· Durst and Vornado say they'd jump back into Hudson Yards bidding [Crain's]
· Speaking of, Vornado has spent $34.2M on Moynihan Station. On what? [TRE]
· National Association of Realtors puts on a happy face for bad numbers [Hot Prop]
· The UES has gone glass, people, and it's selling like hotcakes! [A Fine]
· Debate already heated about Long Island City Jesuscondo [StreetEasy]
· Notable Leroy Street townhouse with 'grassy roofs' sells for $13.82M [TRD]
· Check out The Breakers, Sheepshead Bay's new gated community [GerritsenBeach]
· 80 Metropolitan now 25% sold, full of fortysomething Manhattan ex-pats ['Stoner]
· Shocker: vacant land value soared between 1999 and 2006 [City Room]



Tuesday AM Linkage

· Toll Brothers sales fall 30 percent [AP/NYT]
· 52nd Street Project finds new home in Hell [Sun]
· Rockaway-Sunset Park-Manhattan ferry starts in tempest [NYT]
· Huge news: Bronx 'being considered' for pay toilet [NYDN]
· St. John's University dorm in Queens can't get any love [Queens Crap]
· Small businesses, nonprofits say they got screwed by Jamaica rezoning [NYDN]
· Measure to protect Starrett City moving through Congress [Brownstoner]
· Myrtle the Painted Williamsburg Turtle is getting treatment [GL]


Monday, May 12, 2008

Monday PM Linkage

· Schumer & Bloomberg in catfight over West Side development [Crain's]
· Some charges reduced, but tax evasion cases against NYC brokers continue [TRD}
· Coalition to rally tonight against 'racist' LES/EV downzoning [TRE]
· HotelChopper! Room rates at De Niro's Greenwich Hotel go down [HC]
· Banksy, or fake Banksy, loose in Williamsburg! [Williamsburg is Dead]
· List of newish must-see NYC architecture: 15 CPW, IAC, etc. [NYology]
· $36M to build a 'world-class amphitheater' in Coney's Asser Levy Park ['Stoner]
· Maspeth's St. Saviour's now fully dismantled, awaits move [Queens Crap]
· Students at this Borough Park girls' school will probably get cancer [Chaptzem]
· Sad: Santa's Party House (still unopened) now just 100 Lafayette [BV]



Monday AM Linkage

· Real estate lists starting to love this internet thing [NYT]
· Port Authority could pay Goldman Sachs $321M because of WTC delays [NYDN]
· Orchestra buying part of Clinton building as its new 'hub' [NYT]
· Bronx bridge bites dust because it would cost $91M [NYP]
· Parks Dept. planting trees with left hand, cuts down with right [Queens Crap]
· The Crown Heights difference: 'private patrol' groups [Intel/NYM]
· Ikea to 'pacify' Red Hook with new ferry [NYP]
· Those Cobble Hill rooftop gardens and the views from them are pretty nice [GL]
· Atlantic Yards luxe suite sales start this week to help finance arena [AYR]


Friday, May 9, 2008

Friday PM Linkage

· Ballers only, please: $50,000 NYC waterfalls tour in the works [Gothamist]
· Famed mysterious graffiti artist Banksy stencils up Village sports bar [ANIMAL]
· Hudson Yards idea: Why not sell of land parcel by parcel? [TRE]
· Elliman is biggest brokerage, but Corcoran out-exclusives them [TRD]
· 'Architectural tragedy' in Bushwick as house gets totaled [BushwickBK]
· This is how they do swimming pools in Greenpoint [NYShitty]
· Fear of lost parking delays Vernon Blvd. biking improvements [Streetsblog]
· Park Slope bus stop gets pimped [GL]
· No comment needed: 'Real Estate Industry Still a Sausage Party' [TRE]



Friday AM Linkage

· Details on the prognosis for St. Vincent's plan [Downtown Express]
· Groups trying to get E. Village/LES rezone expanded to Chinatown [Villager]
· UES bees ticked off about loss of prime Second Ave. real estate [NYP]
· Another 15 CPW condo sells for $20M [TRD]
· 'Homeowner rescue bill' advances in Washington [NYT]
· The 'ten plagues' of the subway [amNY]
· Is getting barfed on one of the plagues or just a sign of a bad day? [GL]
· Another Atlantic Yards building disappears from renderings [AYR]
· Brooklyn Community Board goes nuclear on Union Hall [Brownstoner]


Thursday, May 8, 2008

Thursday PM Linkage

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· Look, up there! It's the lobby of One Bryant Park/Bank of America Tower! [TRE]
· Broker sues CORE Marketing Group over commissions spat [TRD]
· Your office building's security guard is totally pissed right now [Crain's]
· New blog for people to rat out/bitch about their crappy roommates [WeShareAToilet]
· Bowling is booming in Williamsburg, but not in Queens! [NY1]
· Manhattan listings inventory jumps by 700 in one day, but why? [UrbanDigs]
· Astoria squirrel massacre divides city, nay, world [Gothamist]
· People go up on the High Line, sketch their hearts out [High Line Blog]
· New Port Authority boss not the biggest Frank Gehry fan [Daily Intel]



Thursday AM Linkage

· Out of the tunnel: 1 Train now traversing WTC site on a viaduct [NYT]
· State is cracking down on some real estate fraud [Crain's]
· E. 75th & Second was a hive of activity yesterday. Literally. [NYP]
· More detail on the subway bedbug issue [NYDN]
· Jersey's 'Gold Coast' doing well & it's closer to Manhattan than Park Slope [NYP]
· Meanwhile, in the, uh, Catskills, a $1B Concord Entertainment City coming [NYT]
· Flatbush, however you define it, is 'poised for discovery by the masses' [amNY]
· Scenes from the Taking of Pelham 123 filming in Dumbo [Dumbo NYC]
· Park Slope now pimping its bus shelters [GL]
· Will Laurie Olin come up with landscaping for the new Gehry buildings? [AYR]


Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Wednesday PM Linkage: Weekly Food Edition

· Bruni hits Momofuku Ko with the triple, despite lack of normal chairs, etc. [NYT]
· Too much praise? Here's a Ko Superlative Index [Savory Bits]
· Alan Richman takes David Chang to Ippudo, likes banter more than the food [GQ]
· RG drops Eleven Madison Park the elusive five stars [NYDN]
· Randall Lane give Madaleine Mae three of six and Chop Suey two [TONY]
· Spicy & Tasty both spicy and tasty, stinky tofu notwithstanding [New Yorker]
· Hold onto your hats, restaurants: Ed Levine is filing reviews [Serious Eats]
· ...and the first 'report card' is for Terroir: A- [Serious Eats]
· Veniero's dirty DOH details: mouse droppings in the chocolate [Eater]



Wednesday AM Linkage

· More detail on the rejection of the St. Vincent's Village plan [NYT]
· Law firm may lease part of of planned Port Authority Bus Terminal Tower [NYO]
· So, the city's plan is to use subway for hurricane evacuations [Metro]
· Reports of death of big Bronx beaver were greatly exaggerated [NYDN]
· How to grow veggies in East New York and make money doing it [NYT]
· Uh, what happened to the 'green roof' on the Frank Gehry arena? [AYR]
· Bedbug nugget: they've been found on wooden subway benches [NYShitty]
· Myrtle, the vandalized Burg turtle, gets her 15 minutes of fame [GL]
· Building on Columbia St. finally gets a fix up [Lost City]


Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Tuesday PM Linkage


Photo via Flickr/ibitmylip

· Holy cannoli! East Village bakery institution Veniero's gets shut down! [Eater]
· But if you're hungry for something sweet, UES gets 10th Tasti D [78&2]
· Newsweek heads to Hudson Square in sexy three-way space swap [TRD]
· Mysterious group buys third 15 Central Park West condo [TRE]
· White peacock struts around like it owns the freakin' place [CitySpecific]
· Anecdotal market snapshot: $5,000 deposit on a $2M home? [True Gotham]
· Details and dates on the Hamilton Grange move to St. Nicholas Park [FoSNP]



Tuesday AM Linkage

· Ground broken on $2B UN HQ renovation [Sun]
· Info on the crack problem that caused W39 St. building evac [amNY]
· Fun new online vid thing: subway 'crotch cam' (for guys) [NYP]
· RIP Jose? Big Bronx River beaver may be dead [NYDN]
· This is the golden age for ferry service and water transport [Sun]
· Demon issues? Bay Ridge's Gregory Hotel is the place to go [NYDN]
· Reactions to the sad Burg story of Myrtle the painted turtle [GL]
· See the Battery Maritime Building w/ David Byrne sound installation [BV]
· Checking out the details at the Brooklyn Inn [Lost City]


Monday, May 5, 2008

Monday PM Linkage

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· At the Ninth Avenue retail protest in Chelsea: 'not everybody is rich' [VNY]
· Are Lucida's broken windows the work of vandals or poor construction? [78&2]
· Jane Jacobs Medal goes to SoBro lady who is helping to clean up the 'hood [Sun]
· Controversial Greenpoint rooftop lounge opens despite Stop Work Order [BV]
· Long Island City 'mystery condo' goes green, still a secret [A Fine]
· A look at 62 East 4th Street, the East Village's strangest building [Gothamist]
· No discount for Kanye West at HL23? C'mon guys! [NYP Home]
· Unbridled vision: Red Hook's Revere Sugar Refinery an outlet mall? ['Stoner]
· Where have all the supermarkets gone? [NYT]



Monday AM Linkage

· Take the boat: new ferry starting from Manhattan to Rockaways [amNY]
· Rockefeller Center's Atlas going to get clean [Sun]
· As projects flounder, Gov. Paterson wants one person in charge of ESDC [TRE]
· Atlantic Yards isn't the only Ratner project with issues. Check out Yonkers [NYT]
· Holy crap: UES residents want to keep drop-in homeless shelter [NYP]
· The 'strangest building in the East Village' [Lost City]
· Three years later, Scarano's enlightened Bond St. building showing itself [GL]
· Check out the Fort Greene house tour [Brownstoner]
· A vid of how the PLG entrance to Prospect Park sucks [Hawthorne St.]


Friday, May 2, 2008

Friday PM Linkage

· Inside the world's first billion-dollar home, with renderings! [Forbes]
· Can Marty Markowitz win the Nets for Brooklyn on the hardcourt? [Gothamist]
· Did One Hanson Place pricechop their retail space? [TRE]
· Sotheby's auctioning shed designed by Shigeru Ban [WAN]
· Hipsters invade Plaza Hotel to drink free booze, act fancy [DBTH]
· No punchline needed: day care center to open in Dumbo condo tower [DumboNYC]
· Hiding out in Green-Wood Cemetary? Hit these historical spots [TONY]
· What are you still doing here? Huge sale at UNIQLO!!! [Racked]



Friday AM Linkage

· So far, Piano's downtown Whitney met with 'support from community' [Sun]
· Don't look now, but state officials are predicting 'a deep recession' [NYT]
· Get ready to kiss the 7% property tax cut goodbye [NYP]
· Hudson Square to get a big business improvement district [Downtown Express]
· Film asst. nailed by debris falling 12 stories from Gramercy bldg site [NYDN]
· How are the Jersey deer invading Staten Island? They're swimming [Urbanite]
· The 'biggest damn crane in town' towers over Cooper Square [Lost City]
· Rally will ask Governor to send Atlantic Yards to corner for 'time out' [Sun]
· God no: nanny poaching in Carroll Gardens parks [GL]
· Perhaps some Greenpoint 'cock & fowl'? [Fading Ad Blog]


Thursday, May 1, 2008

Thursday PM Linkage

· Oh noes, our air quality sucks! [Crain's]
· Pretzel Time's revenge! Sues Vornado over Manhattan Mall eviction [TRE]
· Meanwhile, Vornado opens sales office for Candela condo conversion [TRD]
· Fire at J Condo! Eh, it was last night and everything's cool now [DumboNYC]
· Hating on the Cooper Square Hotel [Lost City]
· Andre Balazs update: Hotel QT sold, but who is he dating?[HotelChatter]
· Wind turbines on top of Queensboro Bridge? Hey, why not? [RIslander]
· UES doorman writes books about Queens while working [NYT]
· Coney Island screenshots from the new Grand Theft Auto [Kinetic Carnival]



Thursday AM Linkage

· Work is starting again on the Deutsche Bank Tower [NYT]
· Do check out the Kips Bay House Show [NYP]
· UES's Carnegie Hill wasn't always a 'luxurious enclave' [amNY]
· Sorry, city parking permits have been cut back [NYT]
· Museum of Art & Design director has interesting taste in drawers [Sun]
· The 'absurd juxtaposition' of the Cooper Square Hotel [Lost City]
· Celebrate Construction Safety Week in a structurally-sound location [Bad Advice]
· Gowanus maybe getting a Starbucks after a toxic cleanup [GL]
· Eh, so maybe the 'Green Streets' in PLG aren't so green? [Hawthorne Street]


Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Wednesday PM Linkage: Weekly Food Edition

· Bruni 1-stars Commerce, which evokes Waverly Inn & emulates Balthazar [NYT]
· Platt 2-stars Commerce, which causes exhaustion [NYM]
· Dosa hunt leads to new Curry Hill vegetarian featuring Tamil Nadu region [VV]
· Capri Caffe becomes FiDI's 'luncheonette of choice' [TONY]
· Korhogo 126's French West African melting pot has soul [NYDN]
· Pork lovers mourn: Mei Wah Lah is shuttered for good [Eater]
· Fulton Street Fish Market's gone, but Fish Market is now open [Strong Buzz]
· Slope's Barrio is 'inoffensive' to 'tasty' but 'very, very overpriced' [VV]



Wednesday AM Linkage

· Noooo! The hotel boom may be coming to an end [NYO]
· Construction safety week: worker injured in 25-foot fall from building [NYT]
· Want to buy a men's club? Scores is available for $40M [NYP]
· Another privately-owned subway escalator that's terminally screwed [amNY]
· Cable & internet war: FiOS will be coming [Sun]
· Hotel Chelsea getting rid of, uh, 'douche bag manager'? [Living with Legends]
· Third Avenue in Gowanus going 15 CPW-style upscale with a slice of SLCE? [GL]
· In the Internet era, the Greenpoint Library is much more than books [NYShitty]
· Agreement allows Ratner to shave 44% from Phase I of Atlantic Yards [AYR]


Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Tuesday PM Linkage

· Queens development boom continues: Astoria gets new power plant! [Crain's]
· MePa homeless-shelter-to-boutique-hotel transition picks up steam [HC]
· Conspiracy theories: Not the end for Times Square's porny Show World? [VNY]
· Unopened High Line will invite 34 people up to sketch the sucker [NYology]
· New Toy Center owner cried over plaque commemorating toy trains [CityRoom]
· In a credit-strapped world, here come buyers' contract re-assignments [UrbanDigs]
· Neighborhood gentrification watch: Crown Heights beer garden opens [Gothamist]
· Neighborhood gentrification watch: Bushwick getting vegan bakery [BushwickBK]
· Retro Market Diner will reopen on 11th Avenue with frozen drinks [Urbanite]



Tuesday AM Linkage

· Will state 'shake up' Rent Guidelines Board? [amNY]
· $190M in lawsuits so far from UES crane collapse [NYDN]
· The...uh...chicken farm at 100 United Nations Plaza [NYP]
· DOT's new plan for 'people-friendly boulevards,' 'world-class' spaces [Metro]
· Looks like the property tax cap plan is DOA [Sun]
· Studio B continued: occupancy & fire safety issues too? [NYShitty]
· More old gas pains in Gowanus, beneath a playground & future hotel [GL]
· Fast bus to nowhere: bus rapid transit twisting in the wind? [AYR]
· Mints to luxe condos at 20 Henry in Brooklyn Heights [Brownstoner]


Monday, April 28, 2008

Monday PM Linkage

· SL Green wants to build Hard Rock Hotel at Queens' Aqueduct Race Track [Crain's]
· Stuy Town landmarking campaign begins with Western-themed hoe down [TRE]
· Lateish Q1 analysis: 'It takes more than a few postcards and a web site' [Comitini]
· Unveiled: 'sustainable streets' plan, for all you bike-loving hippies [Streetsblog]
· Could Queens lawn-paving trend come to an end with new laws? [Gothamist]
· Brooklyn politicians to attend Atlantic Yards 'timeout' rally [TRD]
· Inside the mind of a subway idiot [Daily Intel]
· Just because: Lord Norman Foster moves to Switzerland [TimesOnline]



Monday AM Linkage

· How deep will a recession cut in NYC? [NYT]
· Wall Street layoff reminder: 36,000 job losses possible [Reuters]
· Make more money by teaming up with the neighbors to sell [NYM]
· Alexander Hamilton's Harlem house in rehab & moving [NYP]
· Behold the redone Museum of the City of New York [Sun]
· Hudson River Park Tribeca section opening next month [NYP]
· Union members ticked about Schaefer Landing heckle play ringtones [Intel/NYM]
· Work underway at Brooklyn Trader Joe's. For real. [Lost City]
· Little flying saucers, sex toys, art, etc. on Bedford Ave. yesterday [GL]
· The Studio B drama continues, Stop Work Order included [NYShitty]


Friday, April 25, 2008

Friday PM Linkage

· The original battle of Columbia University, 40 years ago [CityRoom]
· And, now, the transformation of the 'Meat Market Plaza' on video [Streets Blog]
· What if Karl Fischer was the subject of the Fountainhead? [Restless]
· 'Asian Garbage Bag Thief' strikes in Boerum Hill [GL]
· Ah, the quaint 'Village of East Williamsburg' [NYShitty]
· There are still doctors & dentists at One Hanson and they're unhappy ['Stoner]
· Northside Piers' pier getting a 'massive sculpture' [TRD]



Friday AM Linkage

· Acting Buildings Commissioner gets grilled (insert joke here) [NYDN]
· Details on the Brown Harris child discrimination suit [Sun]
· Should non-'huggable' modernist buildings be saved? [TRD]
· I