Category Archives: Real estate

Brookfield Place shows some life

November 28, 2015- For the first time ever since its opening, Brookfield Place has shoppers. (more…)

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Huge new development planned for Pier-40 to replace St. John’s

November 22, 2015- What the Master of the Universe and former hedge fund tycoon, Mike (more…)

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Mystery solved: Why MTA buses are parking on North End Ave

Update November 19, 2015- Mystery solved: these buses used to sit and wait across the street on Murray (more…)

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Establishment rag infers that Catherine McVay Hughes made the WTC Performing Arts Center happen

November 20, 2015- by Steven E. Greer The Tribeca Tribune is their version of our Broadsheet. Both publications are advertising fliers (more…)

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Museum of Feelings at Brookfield Place? Or is it a stealth ice rink?

Update November 15, 2015- A worker on the site today swore to me that there is no ice rink inside. (more…)

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LMDC releases $10 M for WTC Performing Arts Center “design”

November 16, 2015- The next big billion-dollar waste of money at Ground Zero, the Performing (more…)

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Target, instead of Fairway grocery store, to open across from Whole Foods

November 12, 2015- The real estate company that owns 255 Greenwich sent out a press release: (more…)

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Club Monaco in Brookfield Place opens

November 11, 2015 (more…)

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Brookfield rehires lost retail leasing exec

November 12, 2015- Brookfield Properties has rehired Mark Kostik after he left five months ago for (more…)

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BPCA board member Martha Gallo opposes shutting down the BPCA

November 3, 2015- by Steven E. Greer At the November 2nd CB1 meeting, State Senator Dan Squadron discussed his recent essay (more…)

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Hilariously bad reporting by The Post on the PEP issue

November 8, 2015- The Post ran a strange little super-short “story” on the PEP firing. That was bad (more…)

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Told you so: WTC Oculus retail center delayed

November 4, 2015- by Steven E. Greer BatteryPark.TV has been the only source to correctly report, despite PR-placed infomercials (more…)

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The new Liberty Street WFC bridge

November 5, 2015- The scaffolding is down and we can see what it will look like. This is good for (more…)

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The best oak forest on the East Coast?

November 4, 2015- This has to be one of the coolest oak forests around. (more…)

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State Senator Dan Squadron praises Sheldon Silver at Gateway Plaza meeting

November 2, 2015- by Steven E. Greer On Thursday, October 29th, Gateway Plaza held the annual kabuki theater put on by the Gateway (more…)

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BPC prominent in opening of Late Show with Stephen Colbert

October 27, 2015- You probably know this, but the new Late Show with Stephen Colbert uses footage of BPC in the opening segment. (more…)

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BPCA proceeds with opaque West Thames turf project

October 29, 2015- by Steven E. Greer At the October 27th BPCA meeting, the board voted to approved $1.59 Million of your tax dollars (more…)

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U.S. New-Home Sales Tumble in September

October 27, 2015- The WSJ reports, “Sales of newly built homes fell across the country in September, (more…)

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NY Post wants the LMDC to shut down once and for all

October 26, 2015- The Post essays, “The “temporary” agency that won’t die — the Lower Manhattan (more…)

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The HRPT is run by idiots

October 19, 2015- Opinion by Steven E. Greer I attended the beginning of the CB1 and HRPT meeting tonight about the future of Pier-26 (more…)

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