Category Archives: Real estate

NID tax on Tribeca barely discussed at Pier 40 Town Hall

February 28, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD After attending the CB1 meeting on February 27th, where numerous well organized Tribeca citizens spoke against the proposed NID tax to fund the Hudson River Park Trust, the event on February 28 … Continue reading

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Opposition to the Hudson River Park NID tax

February 26, 2012 By Steven E. Greer The joint session of the full Manhattan Community Board 1 met at the new BMCC (just north of old Ground Zero) to discuss the new tax that is being floated by the Hudson … Continue reading

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200 Rector Place to get new rooftop lounge and pool

Update February 28, 2013 The owners voted to do the renovations, below. January 26, 2013 By Steven E. Greer A group of apartment owners in 200 Rector Place are putting up for a vote a proposal that would overhaul the … Continue reading

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Freedom Tower antenna shaping up

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Todd English, Steven Starr, and Cipriani’s lose out to Poulakakos?

February 27, 2013 The New York Post reported that the Poulakakos family will indeed be running a large food court in the World Financial center. The article claims that much more respected restaurateurs, such as Steven Starr, Cipriani’s group, and … Continue reading

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Essay: Pier A should be a farmer’s market like New Amsterdam

Essay, Opinion February 2, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD After decades of throwing cash into the money pit called Pier A in the southernmost tip of Manhattan, the City of New York managed to unload this headache onto the … Continue reading

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American Express downsizes by using “virtual employees”

Update February 25, 2013 Related to the story below, Yahoo is reversing policy and no longer allowing employees to work from home. February 14, 2013 By Steven E. Greer It is not well known that the WFC #3 building, which … Continue reading

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New York Post refutes false Lindsay Lohan rumor started in a Tribeca blog

Update February 12, 2012 The New York Post covered this false rumor about Lindsay Lohan looking to start a restaurant in an empty commercial storefront in Tribeca. Per below, the rumor was started by a Tribeca blog that receives money … Continue reading

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Bloomberg expands in London

New York Times By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM LONDON — It is the biggest development in this city’s buzzing financial district, and even Olympics-jaded Londoners call it grandiose: two bronze-and-stone towers, connected by sky-bridges atop the ruins of a 2,000-year-old Roman … Continue reading

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Battery Park City CB1 meeting, February 2013

February 5, 2013 By Steven E. Greer At the monthly CB1 meeting tonight, the much anticipated updates by the BPCA on the ballfields and Asphalt Green repair projects were much ado about nothing. After somewhat of a distracting filibuster about … Continue reading

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Pick-A-Bagel delivery bikes pollute South End Ave

February 3, 2013 As if the neglected Pick-A-Bagel and poor quality of service is not bad enough, the restaurant is now the source of property-value-lowering delivery bikes illegally chained to trees on South End Ave.  The PEP should be ticketing … Continue reading

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The new Gateway Plaza courtyard

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Without public comment, Poulakakos dominates BPC

January 25, 2012 By Steven E. Greer, MD With the news that the World Financial Center might lease 25,000 square feet to the Poulakakos restaurant family to build a food court similar to Eataly, suddenly the Poulakakos’ group now dominates … Continue reading

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WSJ features Battery Park

The weekend edition of the WSJ featured Battery Park City as a real estate opportunity. Battery Park City Adds More to Its Views January 25, 2013 The WSJ By MELANIE LEFKOWITZ When Derek Lee moved to Battery Park City in … Continue reading

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How to save the Little League season

Opinion January 10, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD More than a thousand Battery Park and Tribeca kids might miss out this year. The Little League season seems likely to be cancelled due to damage to the ballfields on Murray … Continue reading

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South End Ave sidewalk to be cleaned up

January 2, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD The strip of sidewalk in front of the Gristedes, Chase bank, Black Hounds, SouthWestNY, the pharmacy, Picasso Pizza, and other shops along South End Avenue within the LeFrak commercial locations will be … Continue reading

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LeFrak to renovate facades of commercial spaces on South End Ave

January 10, 2013 By Steven E. Greer LeFrak will begin a renovation of the old and dilapidated commercial spaces on South End Avenue. They will also hook up the hoses so that store owners can power wash the sidewalk. To … Continue reading

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CB1 opposition to Pier A becoming restaurants and bars

CB1 Chairperson Julie Menin explains the opposition to Pier A in Battery Park becoming a strip of restaurants and bars managed by The Downtown Alliance and the Poulakakos family of restaurants.   (more…)

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An open letter to the BPCA about Asphalt Green

Update: January 8, 2013: Since our January 3 open letter story, below, the BPCA now mentions “Asphalt Green” on their website. Dennis Mehiel, Chairman/CEO of the BPCA January 3, 2013 Mr. Mehiel: I was taking a look at the BPCA … Continue reading

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Mr. Gorbachev, Open Asphalt Green now

October 21, 2012 By Steven E. Greer, MD On a crisp Sunday morning in October with blue skies, residents of Tribeca and Battery Park gathered on the terrace by the ball fields to express their frustration over the delays in … Continue reading

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