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1 By Elise Knutsen 1/24 1:17pm

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How many chicks have ogled these river views?

A-Rod’s Apartment Hits a Homer at the Rushmore

Aside from his oft-discussed, revolving door of high-profile girlfriends, Alex Rodiguez is known for being a playboy on an entirely different field. No, not on the baseball diamond—that ninth inning strike out won't be forgotten any time soon—but in the real estate market. After bowing out of his 15 Central Park West rental, Mr. Rodriguez bought a full-floor spread at the Rushmore for $5.5 million last spring.

The third baseman is in the process of taking a walk, but it appears he will score on the place after only 8 months. Read More

3 By Elise Knutsen 3:21pm

Manhattan Transfers

Midwood Rabbi Takes $3.4 M. Vow at the Rushmore

It seems that we're in the wrong profession. Although The Observer has long considered a career in rabbinical studies, we fully intend to pursue our religious calling after noticing a recent real estate transaction involving Rabbi Alvin Kass. Rebbe Kass, who also serves as the NYPD's head chaplain, and his wife Miryom have just Read More

By Matt Chaban 6/07/11 1:43pm

Manhattan Transfers

A-Rod’s Apparent Apartment: Which Celeb Stole Slugger’s Rushmore Roost?

Could Alex Rodriguez still be rounding the bases looking for home?In February, the Yankees slugger was reportedly warming up to buy a four-bedroom condo at the two-towered Rushmore on Riverside South. The full-floor-spread was said to cost between $5.5 million and $6 million. Extell Development even released a statement in which founder Gary Barnett said Read More

By Matt Chaban 4/22/11 1:44pm

Red Carpet Real Estate

Gary Barnett Scores Another All-Star as ‘Melo Moves West

Donald Trump may want to buy the Mets, but the developer with a real feel for the game—as well as basketball, it turns out—is Extell's Gary Barnett. Scoring the extra point is the fact that he famously beat Trump out at Riverside South, where many of the city's top athletes are now moving.

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By Matt Chaban 3/09/11 4:28pm

Manhattan Transfers

Mounting Rushmore: Insurance Big Shot Buys Upstairs from A-Rod

The Rushmore has been a hot commodity of late, attracting the likes of Alex Rodriguez, Robin Williams and violinist Pinkus Zuckerman. Should any of them need homeowners' insurance, they could turn to Domingo Amaro Rangel, who is no relation to our city's most corruptible congressman but does run one of the largest insurance concerns Read More

By Matt Chaban 2/18/11 11:37pm

Red Carpet Real Estate

A-Rod Slides Into Home at Barnett’s Rushmore, West Side’s Newest Clubhouse

Once upon a time, people could not wait to break their contracts at the Rushmore and flee Gary Barnett's ultra-luxury twin tower complex in Riverside South. Was it a typo or just bubble-era buyers' remorse? Whatever the case of the case, The Observer suspects people will be fighting to get into the building Read More

By Matt Chaban 1/26/11 2:37pm

Machers

Barnett Beats Back Cuomo in Rushmore Typo Case

Score another win for Big, Bad Gary Barnett.

A State Supreme Court judge ruled yesterday that a case against the attorney general's office filed by Barnett could not be dismissed, according to The Real Deal. Buyers want out of their contracts at The Rushmore, one of Barnett's Riverside South developments, but Barnett charges thatRead More

By Matt Chaban 12/02/10 4:55pm

Machers

Gary Barnett Puts New Riverside Ballfields Under Luxury Lockdown

Gary Barnett has made plenty of enemies at his developments at Riverside South, including litigious tenants and Borough President Scott Stringer. Now, local little leaguers are up in arms too.

Part of the agreement to develop the massive residential complex, which was begun by Donald Trump in the 1980s, was to extend Riverside Park Read More

By Matt Chaban 10/25/10 4:05pm

Riverside Romance

Will a Supposed Typo Cost Gary Barnett Millions?

As successful as Gary Barnett has been of late, his Extell Development has not been without its unenviable problems. First, there was those onerous brokers who refused to give back their advances on unsold apartments. Now, there are the tenants giving Barnett a taste of his own medicine, demanding their money back Read More

By admin 7/07/10 12:47pm

Upper West Side’s Final Frontier! Community Board Scrutinizes Riverside Center

After decades, the final chapter of the Trump City development saga is now taking shape with the first rounds of debate under way at the most local level of public review.

Tuesday night’s Community Board 7 meeting featured a lengthy session on the final parcel of the massive Riverside South development—an assortment of apartment buildings Read More

By Sam Levin 6/15/10 8:10pm

Trump City

As Riverside South Fight Begins, Burden Signals More Affordable Housing Needed

The massive 8-acre Riverside South development on the Upper West Side has its first official Community Board public hearing tonight, where, if past criticism is any precedent, the level of below-market rate housing is sure to be an issue.

Elected officials and others in the community have called on the developer, Extell Development, to raise the Read More

By Eliot Brown 5/21/10 7:42pm

Extell’s West Side Plan for 2,500 Apartments Headed to Hot Seat

The fight over Trump City is about to have a reprise.

Extell Development's planned 2,500-apartment development on the westernmost portion of the Upper West Side is slated to start the city's seven-month rezoning process Monday. This sets into motion debate over the future of the last parcel of the larger Riverside South development, a giant Read More

By Eliot Brown 11/25/08 6:33pm

Now Showing! Extell’s Portzamparc-Designed Riverside Center

Long in the planning stages, Gary Barnett and his Extell Development Co. have finally let loose images of Riverside Center, their planned 3.3 million-square-foot mostly residential complex at the base of the West Side development once known as Trump City. The Department of City Planning put on its Web site today an environmental review Read More

By Eliot Brown 9/26/08 6:22pm

Extell ‘Earning Goodwill’ by Nixing West Side Costco

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 Read More

By Eliot Brown 7/25/08 3:03pm

Extell Eyeing Costco For Giant Upper West Side Development

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 Read More

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Riverside South

A-Rod’s Apartment Hits a Homer at the Rushmore

Midwood Rabbi Takes $3.4 M. Vow at the Rushmore

A-Rod’s Apparent Apartment: Which Celeb Stole Slugger’s Rushmore Roost?

Gary Barnett Scores Another All-Star as ‘Melo Moves West

Mounting Rushmore: Insurance Big Shot Buys Upstairs from A-Rod

A-Rod Slides Into Home at Barnett’s Rushmore, West Side’s Newest Clubhouse

Barnett Beats Back Cuomo in Rushmore Typo Case

Gary Barnett Puts New Riverside Ballfields Under Luxury Lockdown

Will a Supposed Typo Cost Gary Barnett Millions?

Upper West Side’s Final Frontier! Community Board Scrutinizes Riverside Center

As Riverside South Fight Begins, Burden Signals More Affordable Housing Needed

Extell’s West Side Plan for 2,500 Apartments Headed to Hot Seat

Now Showing! Extell’s Portzamparc-Designed Riverside Center

Extell ‘Earning Goodwill’ by Nixing West Side Costco

Extell Eyeing Costco For Giant Upper West Side Development

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