A Bigger Bowery? Shelly Says No, City Planning Says Yes
Last week, the City Planning Commission approved the rezoning of Third Avenue in the East Village, a measure designed to prevent out-of-scale towers--looking at you, NYU dorms--from overtaking the...
View ArticleBlue Men to School Blue Kids Downtown
The Blue School, the $29,820-a-year primary school founded by none other than the Blue Man Group, has finally secured a permanent home at 241 Water Street, in lower Manhattan. It purchased the space...
View ArticleDevelopers of Cooper Square Hotel Check Out
One of the city's more... interesting... structures, the Cooper Square Hotel in the East Village is now property of Westport Capital Partners, a firm specializing in "opportunistic and distressed real...
View ArticleOut of 100 Potential Suitors, 1 Prevails for Purchase of 86 East 4th Street
A six-story, 25-unit East Village walk-up with mostly market-rate units has sold for $8.7 million, Eastern Consolidated brokers said yesterday. RURU & Associates, a family investor, nabbed 68-70...
View ArticleNow We Get It: Minsikoff’s 51 Astor May Be New York’s Strangest New Building
It's one of the more unusual buildings in the city—an office building smack in the middle of Astor Place, designed by one of the world's top architects. But as Edward Minsikoff's 51 Astor Place,...
View ArticleStarbucks, Dunkin Donuts Account For More Than 40 Percent Of New York Coffee...
A new report from the New York City Economic Development Corporation reveals that 42.7 percent of the city's 1,700 coffee shops and cafes are either Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks branches. There are 454...
View ArticleLandmarks Preservation Commission To Decide Fate of Merchant’s House Hotel...
Developers of a proposed hotel adjacent to the historic Merchant's House Museum in the East Village will face the Landmarks Preservation Commission tomorrow and face the board's judgment on the...
View ArticleThe Lower East Side and the East Village: Meccas for Concept Creativity
In recent years, the Lower East Side and the East Village have become a breeding ground for new and innovative concepts, many of which have achieved immense success in the area, leading to greater...
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