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By Matt Chaban 2/08 6:11pm

Kimmelmania

Half time?

To Save Penn Station, Boot Madison Square Garden to the River

Despite his lack of formal design training, Michael Kimmelman has excited many readers, both architecturally adept and not, with his focus on urban issues. The Observer has begun to hear some grumbles, however, that that is all he cares about—bike lanes here, old housing projects over there, riverfronts a world away. What does he think of the Atlantic Yards apartment buildings or the World Trade Center Memorial. Won’t he weigh in on some capital-a Architecture already?

Well, today, as always seems to happen, he has done us one better. Read More

By Staff 11/04/09 2:45am

Four More Years! But for What? Experts Opine on Economic Development Through ’13

Almost indisputably, the mayoral race this year was a desert of big new ideas for New York City. Be it the lack of a competitive Democratic primary, the billions in budget gaps or the challenger's preference for blanket criticism over policy prescription, the incumbent and-at the time of this writing-presumptive winner, Michael Bloomberg, was never Read More

By Eliot Brown 3/12/09 8:15pm

Bloomberg Wants Governors Island and Brooklyn Bridge Park

Mayor Bloomberg is seeking to grab control of Governors Island and Brooklyn Bridge Park, pushing the Paterson administration aside in an attempt to spur progress on the two projects, both of which would create new real estate development and public parkland.

As part of the mayor’s plan, his administration would take money it invested Read More

By Eliot Brown 3/12/09 8:14pm

Bloomberg Wants Governors Island and Brooklyn Bridge Park

Mayor Bloomberg is seeking to grab control of Governors Island and Brooklyn Bridge Park, pushing the Paterson administration aside in an attempt to spur progress on the two projects, both of which would create new real estate development and public parkland. As part of the mayor’s plan, his administration would take money it invested in Read More

By Eliot Brown 6/24/08 10:09pm

So Long, Javits Hotel

Plans for a soaring new hotel across from an expanded Javits Center have now gone the way of, well, an expanded Javits Center.

With expansion plans scaled back months ago, the Paterson administration earlier in June refunded the deposits of the three bidders vying to build the Javits Hotel, a tower Read More

By Dana Rubinstein 6/05/08 6:05pm

Foreigners to Storm Manhattan This Fall, Gobble Real Estate

Investors, their pockets bulging with foreign capital, will set down in Manhattan this September to eye local real estate investment opportunities, rub shoulders, and draw American investment overseas.

Cityscape -- the firm that put on a popular Dubai convention last year -- will host the the Cityscape USA exhibition on Sept. 10 and 11 at Read More

By Tom Acitelli 5/20/08 3:45pm

Quinn on West Side Rail Yards, Moynihan Station, Javits Center

The video above, courtesy of The Observer's Azi Paybarah, features City Council Speaker Christine Quinn expounding this morning on major development projects like the Javits Center expansion and renovation; the stalled Moynihan Station plan; and the Related Companies' West Side rail yards plans.

"I really see all three of them as critically important," Ms. Quinn Read More

By Eliot Brown 2/13/08 12:01am

The Javits Center Saga: No End in Site

Almost from the moment it was completed in 1986, conventioneers and city and state officials realized the Javits Center was too small to satiate the demand for New York-based trade shows, expositions and conventions, and the facility would need to grow. But in the two decades since, the Javits expansion has turned into a never-ending Read More

By Matthew Schuerman 11/28/07 12:00am

Javits Center Expansion: It May Just Be Renovations

After floating a number of multibillion-dollar plans to expand the Javits Convention Center, the state’s economic development agency is considering a drastically scaled-down version that would renovate the existing building without creating any more exhibit space, according to individuals briefed on the plan.

Patrick Foye, the downstate chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation, Read More