Mixed-use development projects have become part of New York's cityscape in recent years. But now developer Douglas Durst is taking that concept to new heights.
Mr. Durst is co-developer of a project on West 31st Street where demolition crews are clearing the way for a 58-story skyscraper that will have three separate lobbies: one for two Read MoreLate on the afternoon of Dec. 7, an 11-person jury on the 21st floor of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse handed World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein a courtroom verdict that could add over $1 billion to his available rebuilding funds. And for a night at least, it seemed, the keys to the Read More
When a reporter recently challenged City Hall's proposal to build a football stadium on the West Side, Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff had a simple, business-like reply.
"Well, we're going to build it," Mr. Doctoroff snapped, as though the matter were closed. Mr. Doctoroff, deputy mayor for economic development, has good reason to be confident-in his own Read MoreIn the Jets' first-ever television ad for the team's planned stadium, to be built atop the West Side rail yards, the narrator says in a dreamy tone: "Neglected industrial areas around the rail pit will be transformed into new waterfront parkland."
It sounded good: Who could be against turning derelict rail yards into parks? Indeed, as Read MoreCity Council Speaker Gifford Miller is charging that the city's Olympic bid committee may be acting beyond its authority by potentially putting taxpayers on the hook for billions of dollars should New York be awarded the 2012 Summer Games.
The challenge comes in the wake of unsuccessful efforts by City Council member Letitia James of Brooklyn Read MoreStanding before a crowd of high-school students that had been nicely primed—the students leaped to their feet as they watched gymnasts Paul and Morgan Hamm execute simultaneous back-flips—the last thing Mayor Bloomberg expected was a razzing.
By half the auditorium. Nevertheless, for a good 20 seconds at A. Philip Randolph High School in Harlem on Oct. Read MoreDaniel Libeskind has no buildings at Ground Zero to call his own.
On Oct. 12, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced that architect Frank Gehry, of Bilbao fame, had won the competition to design a performing-arts center at the World Trade Center. The complex will house the Joyce Theater International Dance Center and the Signature Theatre Read MoreOn the morning of Sept. 29, at a Crain’s Business breakfast in his honor, Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff is expected to introduce the highest-profile addition yet to the swelling ranks of supporters for the proposed Jets stadium: community-newspaper movie reviewer and former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, The Observer has learned.
The former Mayor might Read MoreSenator Hilary Clinton had just spent several hours on Friday, Sept. 17, touring an exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York about the life and times of her predecessor, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, when she and a small group of architects and urban planners took an impromptu walk upstairs to Read More
There will be no formally sanctioned commemorations at the site of the former World Trade Center during the Republican National Convention, convention planners and government officials have told The Observer .
With the exception of demonstrators who will be allowed to gather across the street, Ground Zero-the birthplace of the war on terror, where President George Read MoreAround 9:30 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 2, a staffer from First Lady
Laura Bush's office called Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Mrs. Bush and her twin daughters might be swinging through New York on a personal trip that day. The front page of every major newspaper in the city was plastered with headlines about possible terrorist threats against Read MoreA mere 10 days after Governor George Pataki presided over an optimistic and buoyant ceremony to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center, Ground Zero master planner architect Daniel Libeskind filed suit against Larry Silverstein, the developer who is building the 1,776-foot-tall spire.
The lawsuit arises out of a billing dispute Read MoreOn Wednesday, June 16, New York Jets owner Robert Wood Johnson IV is scheduled to give a speech at the Marriott Marquis introducing Madison Square Garden owner James Dolan, lauding him for his philanthropic efforts and contributions to the city's economy.
The pairing of Mr. Johnson and Mr. Dolan would seem to be an odd one. Read MoreOn June 2, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation will formally adopt plans for rebuilding at Ground Zero that will allow Tishman Construction to begin its assignment on the first stage of the project: the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower.
With that stamp of approval, subcontracts for excavation and foundation work will be let out; huge, intertwined steel cables Read MoreThere was little surprise when New York was selected on May 18 as one of five finalist cities in the competition to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. "Two hurdles down and one to go!" beamed Mayor Michael Bloomberg immediately after the announcement. The Mayor joined Governor George Pataki at an NYC 2012 celebration breakfast outside Read More
