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There’s a prevailing narrative in New York real
estate, and it goes something like this: Lehman Brothers’...
collapse sent the Manhattan office market into a horrifying and precipitous tailspin. Commercial tenants, fearing for their survival, fled in ...
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Office Market Martin Luthers
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The city is moving to rezone a six-block area in the far West Village, a victory for local preservation groups and a potential obstacle for developers in the area.
The rezoning would affect buildings between Washington and Greenwich streets, from 10th to 12th streets. The effort is expected ...
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Leon Washington
A year after his sweeping election victory - and ten months after he was inaugurated amid widespread public optimism - the new president's support is slipping in the polls, faith in his policies is vanishing, and the opposition is smelling blood.
That sentence could aptly describe the ...
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Inge Reist’s father was not interested in the subject of money. A medievalist in the comp lit department at Columbia, he reserved a “certain disdain for business and the stock market,” according to his daughter, and preferred instead to spend his time thinking about more meaningful things. “I ...
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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 ...
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Michael Bloomberg
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Robert Jackson
Asked to predict what sort of working relationship he’d have with Michael Bloomberg over the next four years, the incoming city comptroller talked about physics.
“An electromagnetic force,” he said, “it’s unlike gravity. Gravitational force is only one direction, it’s an attractive force. ...
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Michael Bloomberg
Gherardo Guarducci and Dimitri Pauli, the two handsome Italian owners of Sant Ambroeus in the West Village, were sitting recently on a spacious leather banquette in the dining room of their latest venture, Casa Lever, under the watchful Technicolor gaze of 10 original Warhol portraits (Bob ...
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Pedro Espada
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Thomas Jones
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Anna Sui
Jon Cooper says he saw “the first red flag” back in January, as he sat in his home in Glen Cove with his spouse, Rob, watching David Paterson introduce Kirsten Gillibrand as the state’s new junior U.S. senator.
“Rob said, ‘Isn’t that Al D’Amato standing next to Gillibrand?’”
For Mr. Cooper, ...
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Jon Switzer
"Think of me as you with a vagina,” Vera Farmiga’s character Alex says to George Clooney’s Ryan at one point in Up in the Air , the new film from Jason Reitman ( Juno , Thank You For Smoking ), opening in theaters Dec. 4. “It’s a killer line,” Ms. Farmiga said recently, drumming her fingers ...
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George Pataki
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New York Times Washington correspondent Jodi Kantor has
secured a stunning seven-figure book deal this week with...
Little, Brown to write a volume on the Obamas. The deal was the result of a heated citywide auction, and was brokered by independent ...
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Go Jodi Go! Times' Kantor Scores Seven Figures From ...
observer.com - 7 days ago
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Joe Scarborough held up a copy of The
New York Times . It was Monday, Nov. 16,...
and earlier in the morning The Times had published a piece about Newsweek , which had recently laid off 13 staffers. Quarterly ad revenue at the newsweekly was down 48 ...
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Morning Joe, Piping Hot a Year Ago, Steadily Loses Steam
The City University of New York is slogging ahead with plans for a new, experimental community college, and has enlisted brokerage Newmark Knight Frank to find it a temporary home.
The broker leading the hunt is Howard Kesseler , a Bowdoin-educated executive managing director who has grown ...
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The loudest voices on the right never tire of telling us that they are the truest patriots. They claim to be the deepest believers in our system, the strongest defenders of our Constitution, the most upbeat, bold and courageous Americans anywhere. But now that the government is finally prepared ...
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Rudy Giuliani lives for weekends like this.
The Obama administration's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 defendants in federal court gave the former mayor a chance to showcase his Tough Guy act on three separate Sunday morning shows.
On "Fox News Sunday," ABC's ...
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Citigroup, Joseph Abboud, Kurt Salmon Associates, Pali Capital, and the Liz Claiborne Art Ortenberg Foundation are just a few of the bold-faced names who may have been paying rent to the Iranian government for their offices in a Fifth Avenue skyscraper, according to real estate sources, the ...
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Thomas Jones
File this under bad planning: it seems like every week Hollywood offers up yet another schlocky horror movie to the court of public opinion, but today—on the always-spooky Friday the 13th—there isn't a horror movie in sight. Someone cue up the Price is Right horn ! As we do every Friday, here's ...
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Bill Clinton
George Pataki
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MadParkNews.com - Madison Square Park Neighborhood News
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The United Arab Emirates has dropped a princely
sum on a stalled development site in midtown east....
In an odd denouement to a development story that began in 2007, the Middle Eastern nation has paid $44.7 million to take the property at ...
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Oil-Rich UAE Buys Distressed East 46th Street Site
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Back in February 2008, when the doyenne real
estate broker Sharon Baum announced that she'd no longer...
be driving a hunter green Rolls-Royce Silver Spur--upholstered in camel-colored leather, and blessed with her famous "SOLD 1" custom license ...
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Sharon Baum Bids Farewell to Her Vespa, Returns to ...
