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Kingsbridge Armory

6 By Matt Chaban 2/02 10:17am

Slippery slope

His eyes are set on the Bronx. (Sports Illustrated)

An Outer Borough Goal? Hockey Skates Into Brooklyn, the Bronx

New York is not much of a hockey town. The Rangers are the top team in the league right now, and still the awfulness of the Knicks gets more attention. The Super Bowl is sucking up a lot of air time, but even if the Rangers win the Stanley Cup—their first since 1994, second since 1940—the back pages of the tabs will still spend most of their time on off-season baseball news.  Sean Avery's sartorial choices attract more attention than a Henrik Lundqvist shut out.

Thus The Observer almost slipped on the ice in surprise when two reports surfaced yesterday about hockey coming to some unlikely places. Read More

By Robert Knakal 4/15/10 2:11pm

Congrats, Kingsbridge Armory Opponents

Imagine a family of four is looking at a rental apartment in the newly constructed Building A, which has received tax benefits. While the family likes the apartment very much, the parents are told that if they rent it, they must pay their children higher weekly allowances than they have been paying them. This Read More

By Eliot Brown 3/25/10 8:16pm

City Wants Living Wage Study

Facing an increasing pressure from unions and elected officials on issues relating to living wage, the Bloomberg administration is planning to commission its own report and task force on wage policy issues.

In recent days, the city's Economic Development Corporation has begun reaching out to various organizations that would sit on the task force, including Good Read More

By Eliot Brown 12/21/09 10:55pm

Council Torpedoes Kingsbridge Armory, Again

The Kingsbridge Armory project has been shot down once again by the City Council, which overrode the mayor's veto of their veto, killing the planned retail mall in the Bronx all over again.

The Council voted on Monday afternoon, 48-1, to override the mayor's veto, as the body, and particularly most of the Bronx delegation, Read More

By Eliot Brown 12/21/09 10:22pm

Mayor Touts Council O.K.’s for West Side Yards, Broadway Triangle; Rebukes Kingsbridge Rejection

There was a less-than-subtle undertone to a Monday morning mayoral press conference in Chelsea.

Speaking in the wake of the City Council's rejection of a proposed mall project in the Bronx, Mayor Bloomberg, side by side with Council Speaker Christine Quinn, emphasized "creating jobs;" of "progress" on development projects; of cooperation with the City Council.

On hand to Read More

By Staff 12/15/09 11:28pm

Wage Wars: $10 an Hour Emerges as Make-or-Break for New Development

By all measures, a press conference early Monday afternoon on the steps of City Hall appeared to be a victory celebration.

The City Council had just voted, 45-1, to block a planned new mall at the Bronx’s Kingsbridge Armory, as the developer, the Related Companies, balked at requiring its retail tenants to pay wages of Read More

By Staff 4:58pm

Council Hands a Rare Defeat to Related Over Armory Project [Updated]

The City Council is preparing to hand a defeat Monday to the Related Companies, the normally-successful development powerhouse that sought to turn the giant Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx into a mall.

The forthcoming rebuke--the Land Use committee Monday morning voted 17-1 against the project--is an extremely rare action for a Council that, in the Read More

By Eliot Brown 12/09/09 3:27pm

Nearing a Deal on Related’s Armory Project [Updated]

A week ago, things looked pretty bleak for Related Companies and its attempts to win City Council approval of the $323 million development project at the Kingsbridge Armory.

But now the fight over retail development and the use of living wage at the Kingsbridge Armory appears to be nearing a deal, with the framework of Read More

By Kate McGee 12/03/09 7:53pm

Praying For a Living Wage at the Armory

A possible City Council vote on the controversial Bronx Kingsbridge Armory project was postponed Thursday, pushing the matter back at least a few more days. The Subcomittee on Zoning and Franchises has recessed until Monday, Dec. 7. They could vote then, or push back the matter until the slated meeting next Wednesday.  

But members Read More

By Eliot Brown 11/18/09 12:48am

Four Years Hard Labor

A repetitive refrain filled City Hall’s council chambers on Tuesday morning. For a good hour at a zoning committee hearing on the contentious plan to redevelop the Bronx’s Kingsbridge Armory into a mall, council member after council member battered the Bloomberg administration and the developer, the Related Companies, with a similar line of questioning: Given Read More

By Eliot Brown 9/07/09 6:18pm

The Week of Amanda Burden

The giant wave of end–of–second–Bloomberg-term land-use approvals is making its way to the halls of 22 Reade Street, as the Department of City Planning, led by the powerful Amanda Burden, is tackling a mass of major planned developments this week.

Here’s a quick rundown of what's on tap:

Jean Nouvel/MoMA/Hines 53rd Street Tower — The planned Read More