How A Useless $400 Million Tax Break For NYC Developers Chugged Along For 20...
In all the uproar over the $3 billion that New York city and state plan to give away to win Amazon’s new Queens corporate center, one of the defenses put forward by Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill...
View ArticleBQX Advocates: Transit Service Sucks, Let’s Build A $2.7B Streetcar | Gothamist
Three years after Mayor Bill de Blasio first proposed building a $2 billion-plus streetcar along the Brooklyn-Queens waterfront — a project initially cooked up by Two Trees developer Jed Walentas and...
View ArticleMadison Square Garden Hasn’t Paid NY Property Taxes In 37 Years. Will Cuomo...
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s latest proposal to expand Penn Station is an overflowing grab bag of promises to commuters and city residents to improve what the governor called in his budget speech yesterday...
View ArticleCity’s Food Programs Trying to Keep Up With Demand Amid Federal Uncertainties...
Among the many dilemmas facing New York amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, one of the biggest is how to make sure that city residents can still feed themselves. Even as food pantries and soup...
View ArticleShould The Rangers’ Playoff Game In Toronto Have Triggered The End of MSG’s...
When the Carolina Hurricanes bounced the New York Rangers from the Stanley Cup bubble with a 4-1 win on August 4th, it seemed like a mere footnote in a sports season turned upside down by the...
View ArticlePandemic Economy Could Turn A Deserted Hudson Yards Into An Even Bigger...
If pandemic Manhattan is a ghost town, Hudson Yards is its ghost capital. The million-square-foot mall built into the base of 20 Hudson Yards is open but eerily empty, its assemblage of single-named...
View ArticleWhen Developers Promise Community Benefits, Who Holds Them Accountable? |...
When developer Forest City Ratner (FCR) was in the midst of seeking final approval in 2008 for what would become Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and Pacific Park development complex, its officials pointed...
View ArticleMadison Square Garden and Hudson Yards: Match Made in Hell or So Crazy It...
If you haven’t been closely following New York state’s plans for a major redevelopment of Penn Station and the area around it, suffice to say, they are a lot. Initially proposed by then-Governor Andrew...
View ArticleFour Big Unanswered Questions About NYCFC’s Ginormous Queens Soccer Complex |...
One day after he fed the New York Times an exclusive about his deal with New York City F.C. to erect a new $780 million soccer stadium at Willets Point in Queens, Mayor Eric Adams, a panoply of elected...
View ArticleLet The Great Mets Parking Lot Casino Schmooze-Fest Begin! | Hell Gate
Mets owner Steve Cohen’s quest to build something undisclosed atop the parking lots around Citi Field—psst it’s a casino—held its coming-out party on Saturday, as roughly 450 Queens residents and...
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