Linda Rosenthal | The New York Observer

Extell 'Earning Goodwill' by Nixing West Side Costco

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:22:13 -0400

Extell Development has dropped its push to bring Costco to its planned "Riverside Center" site on the Upper West Side, part of the larger Riverside South development by the West Side Highway.

The developer told elected officials this morning that the planned store was off the table, dropping a controversial element of their plan, which calls for up to 2,500 apartments in a series of five towers between 59th and 61st streets.

From the West...

Extell Eyeing Costco For Giant Upper West Side Development

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:03:43 -0400

Extell Development is in talks with discount bulk retailer Costco to occupy a large underground store as part of a new 3.3 million-square-foot development of mostly residential buildings on the Upper West Side.

Extell, led by Gary Barnett, is seeking to move forward on developing the last parcels of Riverside South, the 55-acre swath of Upper West Side land known as Trump City when Donald Trump first started planning the complex in the...

A Crowded Breakfast on the West Side

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:04:27 -0400

Here’s a shot from the breakfast hosted Sunday morning by the Council of Orthodox Jewish Organizations on the West Side, which, as Grace Rauh noted, attracted nearly every 2009 candidate for citywide office.

Sitting at the same table were, from left to right, state comptroller Tom DiNapoli, mayoral hopeful John Catsimatidis, city Councilwoman Melissa Mark Viverito, City Councilwoman Inez Dickens, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, likely mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal...

Ed Ott Gets Going on Affordable Housing

Thu, 24 May 2007 09:32:40 -0400

Practically every major Democrat in the city was at the corner of 14th Street and First Avenue yesterday afternoon to announce the formation of a what they say is the largest housing coalition in the city’s history.

The group, New York Is Our Home, includes labor and tenant groups, the Working Families Party and others.

The most heated rhetoric (video here) came from the Central...

Tom Brokaw Advises In West Side Race- For the Son-in-Law

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:00:00 -0500

But the Democratic Party wasn’t the only network of power brokers exerting its influence in the weeks leading up to the election. While Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, U.S....

Tom Brokaw Advises In West Side Race— For the Son-in-Law

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:00:00 -0500

The Upper West Side’s special election on Feb. 28 to fill an empty seat in the State Assembly has been criticized as a vestige of old Tammany-style politics, in which the Democratic machine hand-picks the winner long before the first ballot is cast. But the Democratic Party wasn’t the only network of power brokers exerting its influence in the weeks leading up to the election. While Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, U.S. Representative Jerrold...

Kavanagh Running for Assembly

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:20:04 -0500

Brian Kavanagh, the second-place finisher in a crowded East Side City Council race last year, didn't contest the special election to the State Assembly by Sylvia Friedman yesterday in an essentially uncontested race. But a recent call to Knickerbocker SKD, Kavanagh's consultants (who also worked for Mike, Scott Stringer, and new West Side assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal) found that their voicemail now has an option for "Kavanagh for Assembly." This could produce one of the year's harder-fought...

Your Democratic Nominees

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:40:06 -0500

The complex, weighted County Committee members' vote on who will get the Democratic nomination to succeed two departing members of the State Assembly is by definition an inside process, but yesterday's results suggest that it isn't quite as under control as, say, the bygone institution of judicial conventions. (Nostalgia sets in fast around here!) Scott Stringer's choice to take his West Side seat, Linda Rosenthal, won a first round victory, albeit over a real challenge;...

West Side Tammany

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:40:00 -0500

My story a couple of weeks ago about the new West Side machine -- Tammany, the headline writer called it -- was truer than I knew. Jerry Nadler and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer -- freshly elected on a "reform" platform -- have spent the past few days leaning hard on County Committee members, in order to swing the vote to their favored candidate for State Assembly, Linda Rosenthal. It's an unreformed, utterly inside process that...

West Side Numbers

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:51:00 -0500

Some of the numbers are in for the contest to replace Scott Stringer in the State Assembly, a race whose first round will be fought in a vote of Democratic State Committee members sometime soon, and which will really be decided in what's expected to be a contested Democratic Primary in the fall. Charles Simon leads the pack with $174,000 on hand, which includes a $100,000 loan from himself. Marc Landis has $123,600 on hand....