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Developing
street view
Feb. 21, 2024
The Showman Becomes the Realist
Bjarke Ingels and the limitations of building in New York.
By
Justin Davidson
developing
Feb. 20, 2024
Tennis at the Former Hotel Pennsylvania, Anyone?
While Vornado waits for a better office market, it proposes a pop-up park on the vacant site.
By
Christopher Bonanos
street view
Feb. 7, 2024
A Brewery Conversion in Harlem That Looks Like DUMBO
At the Manhattanville Factory District, the very old fuses with biotech and movie production.
By
Justin Davidson
developing
Jan. 29, 2024
This Stalled Harlem-Housing Complex Might Not Be Dead After All
A new councilperson and a soon-empty building may mean One45 has a chance of going up.
By
Adriane Quinlan
street view
Jan. 24, 2024
A Bad Office Can (Maybe) Become a Good Apartment
The challenges and complexities of cubicles out, bedrooms in.
By
Justin Davidson
developing
Jan. 19, 2024
Anyone Know Where to Park a 1,000-Foot Ocean Liner?
A real-estate company’s plans to turn the S.S.
United States
into a floating hotel may not work out.
By
Christopher Bonanos
developing
Jan. 10, 2024
The Real-Estate Fund Buying Up Homes in Top School Districts
The plan is to rent them out to families looking for a way into million-dollar housing markets.
By
Kim Velsey
developing
Jan. 4, 2024
And Now the Barneys Flagship Will Become Condos
After five years of hosting Spirit Halloween and antiques-show pop-ups, the building has a new owner.
By
Clio Chang
developing
Dec. 13, 2023
When New York’s Biggest Private Landlords Are Columbia and NYU
A new bill proposes the schools start paying taxes accordingly.
By
Clio Chang
redevelopment
Dec. 11, 2023
The Limelight’s Next Act: Theater
From church to club to mall to gym — and, now, to performance space. Will this plan stick?
By
Christopher Bonanos
developing
Oct. 26, 2023
The Flatiron Building’s Luxury-Housing Era Is Beginning
Long, pointy, highly desirable apartments.
By
Christopher Bonanos
architecture
Oct. 2, 2023
What Was Trump Tower?
His co-star, his political launch pad, his longest-term companion.
By
Christopher Bonanos
street view
Sept. 27, 2023
Light-Drenched Offices Fill the Shell of Domino Sugar
A refinery with a dirty past, spotlessly reimagined.
By
Justin Davidson
developing
Sept. 21, 2023
Eric Adams’s Big Housing Plan Is 100 Small Ideas in a Trenchcoat
A lot of them are good. But can he push them through neighborhood resistance?
By
Christopher Bonanos
street view
Sept. 13, 2023
Need Housing? Need a Rail Line? Stack Them Up.
Studio V’s proposal for a Borough Park rail cut.
By
Justin Davidson
developing
Aug. 1, 2023
An Island of Affordable Housing at the World Trade Center
A third of the tower’s residents will have cheap rent and expensive neighbors.
By
Christopher Bonanos
developing
Aug. 1, 2023
New York City May Be Getting a Canyon Ranch
The spa that practically invented the wellness industry will now have to compete with everything it’s wrought.
By
Adriane Quinlan
developing
July 28, 2023
Eliot Spitzer Can Build His
Faux
-Prewar Condo Now
A lawsuit over a ditch couldn’t stop his luxury development with a view of the Met.
By
Kim Velsey
developing
July 6, 2023
Brooklyn’s First Supertall Gets a Very Breezy Basketball Court
The SHoP-designed amenity will be on the tower’s “wind floor” and open to the elements 629 feet up.
By
Clio Chang
neighborhood news
May 24, 2023
JPMorgan Chase Bets Big on the Revival of Midtown
If you build it,
270 Park says,
they will commute.
By
Christopher Bonanos
developing
May 23, 2023
Owner of Flatiron Building Buys Flatiron Building
Jeffrey Gural got it on the second try and saved a bunch of money in the process.
By
Christopher Bonanos
street view
May 11, 2023
Developing Governors Island in Order to Save It
A plan that aims to preserve both its low-rise nature and the earth.
By
Justin Davidson
getting around
Apr. 17, 2023
This Penn Station Plan May Be the One Everyone Can Live With
Assuming the Garden doesn’t move, most of the stakeholders are gravitating toward a new scheme.
By
Justin Davidson
developing
Apr. 14, 2023
Everything We Know About 270 Park Avenue
The JPMorgan Chase supertall is scheduled to open in 2025.
By
Diana Budds
rendering judgment
Mar. 3, 2023
Is a Coney Island Casino a Good Idea?
Could be a recipe for job growth, could be the next Atlantic City dead zone.
By
Christopher Bonanos
developing
Feb. 10, 2023
Related Probably Wishes It Never Uncovered These Archeological Findings
“This is legitimately old.”
By
Clio Chang
rendering judgment
Jan. 10, 2023
The Casino–Apartment–Ferris-Wheel–Hotel Proposal for Midtown East
Is Stefan Soloviev’s plan a jackpot or a bust?
By
Christopher Bonanos
developing
Nov. 23, 2022
The Six-Way Race for One New York Casino License
And a closer look at the Hudson Yards option.
By
Audrey Wachs
developing
Nov. 22, 2022
Margaritaville Was Supposed to Have a Synagogue
And now the developer of the Times Square resort is being sued by the 91-year-old congregation.
By
Clio Chang
developing
Nov. 17, 2022
Airbnb’s Co-founder Is Building ADUs That Would Make Great Airbnbs
What a coincidence.
By
Kim Velsey
developing
Nov. 11, 2022
The Six Senses Is Opening in Rhinebeck Instead of Chelsea
The luxury hotel has traded a Bjarke Ingels building for a biodynamic farm.
By
Kim Velsey
developing
Nov. 10, 2022
Developers Are Convinced They Can Make the ‘Penn District’ Happen
Move over, Sbarro — here comes Roberta’s and condos with “minimalist Mondrian interiors.”
By
Kim Velsey
street view
Aug. 18, 2022
Morningside Heights Gets That Much Higher
Two seminary campuses monetize their air.
By
Justin Davidson
developing
Aug. 10, 2022
‘They’re Destroying an Artists’ Block’: Locals on the Vornado Penn Station Plan
A furrier, a circus school, and other shops on the big changes coming to their block.
By
Kim Velsey
developing
July 21, 2022
When a New High-Rise Means Less Housing
A new tower is four times the height of its predecessor, yet it has fewer apartments.
By
Kim Velsey
developing
May 12, 2022
The Trump International Hotel, Remembered by Yelp
“It reeks.”
By
Clio Chang
brick and mortar
May 4, 2022
Cheap Meat or Luxury Rentals? Inside the Fight at Western Beef
A son’s plan to upscale the grocery’s real-estate empire is reined in by his father.
By
Jasper Craven
street view
Feb. 3, 2022
Most Green Buildings Aren’t Even Close to Being Carbon-Neutral — Yet
With a few exceptions, their claims — at least so far — are built on fuzzy math and borrowing against the future.
By
Justin Davidson
the metaverse
Jan. 28, 2022
Now You Can Get a Mortgage in the Metaverse
In crypto, of course.
By
Kim Velsey
developing
Jan. 5, 2022
Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue, Known ‘Canyon of Mediocrity,’ Now Has $5M Penthouses
High-end developments begin to infiltrate among the gas stations and no-frills rentals.
By
Kim Velsey
developing
Dec. 29, 2021
How New York City’s Skyline Will Change in 2022
The skyline-, neighborhood-, and city-changing projects for this coming year.
By
Kim Velsey
developing
Dec. 14, 2021
The Site Chosen by Elizabeth Street Garden Supporters Gets Affordable Housing
But that doesn’t mean the garden will stay.
By
Kim Velsey
developing
Dec. 14, 2021
A Family of Three Making $42,000 Will Be Able to Live in Soho
The neighborhood rezoning, expected to pass Wednesday, will prioritize affordability.
By
Caroline Spivack
developing
Dec. 10, 2021
If This Deal Is Any Guide, New York Rents Aren’t Going to Calm Down Anytime Soon
The buyers of the American Copper Buildings are betting on the numbers rising and rising some more.
By
Kim Velsey
developing
Dec. 6, 2021
Architects Agree: The Buildings Around the High Line Are Terrible
The black hole of starchitecture.
By
Kim Velsey
developing
Dec. 3, 2021
Elliman’s Top Brokers Are Selling Luxury Real Estate in the Metaverse
Taking the real out of real estate, for fun and profit.
By
Kim Velsey
developing
Nov. 23, 2021
This Is the Beginning of Gowanus’s New Skyline
An expansive rezoning passed today has developers ready to build, build, build.
By
Caroline Spivack
developing
Nov. 11, 2021
A Billionaire-vs.-Millionaire Penthouse Battle
On the Upper West Side, Bill Ackman wants to build a remarkable glass house. But his neighbors have stones.
By
Kim Velsey
developing
Nov. 10, 2021
Ben Kallos Really Didn’t Want the Blood Center Redevelopment
But the City Council is voting for it anyway.
By
Caroline Spivack
developing
Oct. 28, 2021
The Observation-Deck Wars Are Here
Edge, at Hudson Yards, offers a tethered outdoor climb 1,200 feet above the street — for $185.
By
Kim Velsey
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