Category Archives: Real estate

Pick-A-Bagel on South End Ave closes

August 20, 2016- The worst restaurant in BPC (and that is saying a lot, given that we have Picasso Pizza (more…)

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Images of the new Shake Shack in Fulton Station

August 20, 2016- As a shareholder, I checked out the new Shake Shack in Fulton Station. They serve breakfast, like the one in Grand Central. (more…)

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Saks Fifth Avenue windows going in, for September opening

August 20, 2016- Saks Fifth Avenue in Brookfield place is moving along. The windows are going in and workers (more…)

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Brookfield’s use of the marina is your worst nightmare

Update May 21, 2016- This failed exhibition race finally aired on NBC. However, the billionaire who owns Oracle pays the network to air this, as an infomercial for his hobby. There is (more…)

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Maritime building renovation now stalled

August 20, 2016- First, the Poulakakos and Dermot teams backed out. Now, no one wants to touch this money drain being bungled by Mayor de Blasio’s EDC. (more…)

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GiGi Li tries again to become a member of the Lower Manhattan cabal

Update August 9, 2016- The same Gigi Li who was pushed out of her last election is resurfacing, under the umbrella of Margaret Chin. This China coalition wants to conquer BPC.  (more…)

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The Apple store in the Oculus slated to open this week

Update August 15, 2016- Barry Hauptman took this photo. (more…)

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Is it better to rent or buy?

Update August 12, 2016- The folks at Lending tree saw our story and asked us to post a link to their own calculator. (more…)

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This is what $300,000 will buy you in Ohio

August 10, 2016- by Steven E. Greer This is a great example of how land is as abundant as water in Ohio. I looked at a $329,000 (more…)

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Former jewel of NYC parks, BPC Parks are now neglected beds of weeds

Update June 19, 2016- We added some “Before” photos at the bottom. (more…)

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Those pencil-tower condos will be poorly constructed garbage

August 1, 2016- If you think that these quickly built pencil-towers will be worthy of the multi-million-dollar asking prices for (more…)

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WTC PATH station closes

July 14, 2016- The geniuses at the Port Authority have shut down the easy-access PATH station (more…)

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BPCA flagrantly ignores FOIL, again

July 18, 2016- by Steven E. Greer Eight months ago, in December of 2015, anticipating that Brookfield would take over the public (more…)

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More beach fun under the sun

June 25, 2016- These photos were taken at Tod’s Point in Old Greenwich. (more…)

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Manhattan renters say “No way” to rent hikes and move

July 7, 2016- Count me among these, “Manhattan renters left their apartments in search of better deals last month, (more…)

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Another blasphemy to the memory of those killed on 9/11

July 13, 2016- Gothamist reports: You’ve bought the 9/11 Cheese Plate and the 9/11 ‘Darkness’ Hoodie, you’ve (more…)

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Poor Bill Ackman loses hundreds of millions more today

July 15, 2016- It is hard to feel sorry for an arrogant Botox-faced billionaire who did little to earn his wealth, (more…)

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Canadian conglomerate Brookfield Property makes flagrant land grab of public park space

July 8, 2016- by Steven E. Greer, MD Why did the BPCA and Brookfield Property want to stop bike riders from going past the marina (more…)

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Where once there stood a strip club….

July 8, 2016- Where once there stood a strip club, Pussycat lounge, now stands an erect pencil tower. (more…)

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New trees on Vesey Street live after all

Update July 8, 2016- I am happy to be wrong here. The locust trees have lived through the (more…)

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