The full-block office tower set to rise at 51 Astor Place has closed on a construction loan valued at between $165 and $200 million with Bank of America, a source familiar with the project told The Commercial Observer earlier this afternoon.
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Last week was a very bad one for mass transit, a reminder that cars still rule the world, even in New York City. But it could have been a lot worse. Consider what might have happened if Robert Moses had realized his most demonic vision: an expressway plowing right through the middle of Manhattan.
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Earlier this week, even Mayor Bloomberg didn't know that President Obama was coming to New York to speak at Cooper Union today at noon. But a few hours before he's set to begin, everyone's already got their verdict on the speech, parts of which have been released. "Obama won't scold Wall Street," says Mike Read More
Mr. Sciame: I like to say that I sleep like a baby: I sleep for two hours and I cry for two hours. Only kidding. … Read More
But before he outlined his vision for a “21st century regulatory system,” Obama engaged Read More
The folks involved with a new building at 51 Astor Place sent out a rendering of the proposed tower last night, and it seems architect Fumihiko Maki plans a building rather reminiscent of his planned Tower 4 at the World Trade Center (a.k.a. 150 Greenwich Street), with a corrugated facade and distinct angles. Read More
The price of the building sale was not revealed. Read More
The New York Post reported in March that the college was shopping the Read More
Here is a clip of Michael Bloomberg chatting with Tom Brokaw at Cooper Union last night explaining why being mayor in New York is better than being the top official in the country. Bloomberg explained that if, say, he wanted to change the direction of traffic on Fifth Avenue, Read More
He’s still got it, Mario Cuomo. Remember him? Remember The Speech? The one he called “A Tale of Two Cities.” The one he gave at the doomed 1984 Democratic convention in San Francisco, in the midst of the Reagan revolution and the rebirth of the religion of wealth. You don’t have to depend on nostalgia—you Read More
The latest New Republic has an emotional attack on Tony Judt, John Mearsheimer, and Stephen Walt by Leon Wieseltier. Wieseltier says that W-M are antisemites who don't understand how policy is formulated and Tony Judt is trading in antisemitic legends. He gets very angry. All this stems from the Walt Mearsheimer paper and Judt's defense Read More
A smart friend tells me that despite the excited crowds gathered outside Cooper Union 3 weeks back, and the great excitement in the hall, there has been hardly a drop of ink spilled on the Israel lobby debate sponsored by the London Review of Books. The Forward covered it, the Observer covered it, so did Read More
Rebel Bachelors So you’re a New Yorker of some years, let’s say, and you get a phone call from the leader of an African rebel army. It’s his first time in the States, and he wants you to show him the town. I was heading south through Connecticut in mid-September, somewhere near New Haven, when Read More
Rebel Bachelors
So you’re a New Yorker of some years, let’s say, and you get a phone call from the leader of an African rebel army. It’s his first time in the States, and he wants you to show him the town. I was heading south through Connecticut in mid-September, somewhere near New Haven, when Read More
