BROOKLYN MEMORIAL DAY PARADE
The 143rd Kings County Memorial Day Parade, the nation’s oldest continuously run Memorial Day parade begins at 11am on Monday, May 31 in Bay Ridge on 91st Street and Third Avenue and travels along Third Avenue to Marine Avenue, up to Fourth Avenue and concluding in John Paul Jones Park on 101st [...]It’s the end of May, which means it’s time for the June Music Calendar over at Now I’ve Heard Everything. Highlights for the beginning of June include:
The day that every band I like plays in New York (this Friday, June 4th),
Camera Obscura playing a free show in the vault at the Williamsburg Bank [...]
Yesterday I went into the brand new Cafe Martin on Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue between 4th and 5th Streets. And a lovely place it is run by two Irish gentlemen, one of whom is the barista Martin O’Connell, formerly of Cafe Regular on 11th Street.
It was great to see Martin, wearing his signature blue striped [...]
Hi. My name if Rutherford B. Trace, and I’m the new editor of this weblog. I beg pardon from the ongoing series Frederick Douglass In Brooklyn, which I will soon continue, to implore, beseech, encourage and even— in some cases— command all ya’ll who can get near Grand Army Plaza Tuesday June 1 to see the Internets [...]
, PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 2 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 19 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Monday , May 31, 2010 Upper East Side , 1.325M Monday , May 31, 2010, by Curbed Network Listings Upper East Side , 1.325M 2 BR , 2.5 BA Co-op Asking : 1,325,000 Quiet and Private 850 Park Avenue , 1DR Stribling QuickListings are paid advertisements from trusted Curbed . advertisers Curbed aims to make all advertising on the site as valuable and relevant as possible to our readers , and as part of this , Curbed allows trusted advertisers to pay to promote their listings in the blog flow . All sponsored posts on Curbed , including QuickListings , are identified as such and carry a light, PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 2 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 19 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Monday , May 31, 2010 Carnegie Hill , 2.695M Monday , May 31, 2010, by Curbed Network Listings Carnegie Hill , 2.695M 2 BR , 3.5 BA Co-op Asking : 2,695,000 Gracious , Elegant 1112 Park Avenue , 9C Stribling QuickListings are paid advertisements from trusted Curbed . advertisers Curbed aims to make all advertising on the site as valuable and relevant as possible to our readers , and as part of this , Curbed allows trusted advertisers to pay to promote their listings in the blog flow . All sponsored posts on Curbed , including QuickListings , are identified as such and carry a light
BKLYN YARD
Sunday, May 30 3-9PM: Sunday Best is a BKLYN Yard party on Sunday afternoons and evenings produced by resident DJs Doug Singer, Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin. Each weekend, they are joined by incredible guests while we get busy eating huaraches, drinking sangria, and dancing it all off. This weeks guest -Michael Mayer [...]Thursday, June 10th at 8PM, Brooklyn Reading Works presents “People Make Mistakes” an evening of fiction curated by Martha Southgate. Lauren Grodstein, author of A Friend of the Family, Danielle Evans, author of the upcoming short story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, and Martha Southgate, author of Third Girl From the Left [...]The Fifth Annual Brooklyn Blogfest, an event I created five years ago, is just around the corner (on June 8th at 7PM at the Brooklyn Lyceum in Park Slope). This year it’s going to be bigger and better than ever and that is, in large part, due to the involvement of Absolut Vodka.
Alot of you [...]
Thursday, June 10th at 8PM, Brooklyn Reading Works presents People Make Mistakes curated by Martha Southgate. Lauren Grodstein, author of A Friend of the Family, Danielle Evans, author of the upcoming short story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, and Martha Southgate, author of Third Girl From the Left will read.
Brooklyn Reading Works [...]
If you're staycationing this weekend, at least maybe that means smaller open house crowds? If you're out and about in the New York City real estate market this weekend, let us know what you're seeing out there: crowd sizes, market conditions, great or gruesome finds, and, of course, anyone making a move on that epic Tribeca penthouse. Your thoughts in the comments, if you please.
PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 8 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 19 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Saturday , May 29, 2010 Week in Review Inside Daniel Craig's New Pad Extell's Condo Hotel Revealed Saturday , May 29, 2010, by Sara Click the image above to view the full . photogallery This week's top : stories Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Extell's 75-Story Midtown Condo Hotel Finally Revealed Google Genius Puts Epic Tribeca Penthouse on the Market Lender Seeks Foreclosure at 37 Sold William Beaver House Whitney Port's West Village Duplex Renting for 7k Month Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Actress Model Milla Jovovich Tries Again to Sell Village
PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 CurbedWire Coney Island's Luna Park Opens for the Season Tomorrow Friday , May 28, 2010, by Sara Via Curbed Photo Pool Rubys Host CONEY ISLAND We're wrapping up early for the long weekend , but we haven't forgotten that Coney Island Astroland replacement Luna Park opens for the season tomorrow . Above , a test run for the Swing Ride . City bigwigs gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony today , at which Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz announced We don't have to invent our freakishness . We don't have to import characters to Brooklyn . Only the rides ,
PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 Real Estate Sold Village Green Condos Still Selling Close to Asking Prices Friday , May 28, 2010, by Sara Ever since we first labeled eco-minded East Village condo Village Green a success story for overcoming its bust-era origins , we've been checking back to see whether the closed sales bear out that prediction . Last we checked , two units had closed both at 8 percent off . Another eight closings have hit public record since then , with the steepest discount being 13.5 percent off at unit 5D which sold for 995,000. But most discounts were smaller , hovering around
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PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 On the Rental Market Here's Your Memorial Day Grill Firepit Pad w 2BR Duplex Friday , May 28, 2010, by Lockhart Click the image above to view the full . photogallery Photos by Will Femia Just in time for that Memorial Day barbecue , here's an Alphabet City stunner that we dropped by last week . This is one of the ground-floor duplex units in the Tompkins East condos at 631 East 9th Street between Aves . B and C but with a bespoke twist : the owner has just finished a nearly two-year project to transform the back outdoor space into a dazzling grill-chill pad
The New York Building Congress wraps up the decade with an analysis of construction spending, and it turns out that NYC construction spending totaled $26.7 billion in 2009. That's an eight percent falloff from 2008—and residential construction particularly declined from $6.3 billion to $2.5 billion—but still the third-highest year of spending in the past decade. [CurbedWire Inbox]
PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Friday , May 28, 2010, by Sara We hate to put our usual bloody axe over this apartment at 240 Centre Street but we can't avoid the ugly truth : the place did get PriceChopped this week , from 19.95 million to 16.75 million a 16 percent cut . Of course , that's nothing to the long-term choppage this place has seen . It first came on the market asking 30 million in May 2008, bringing it dangerously close to PriceChopper Hall of Fame territory here . The increasingly desperate seller is ex-Bear StearnsPriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 Welcoming the Whitney Friday , May 28, 2010, by Sara Welcoming the Whitney The new Whitney Museum building on the High Line really must be happening , because Diane von Furstenberg of High Line sundeck fame has devoted her store's windows to . it The window text says of the Whitney's current placeholder exhibition : This festive intervention activates and visually integrates the site as a whole , introducing playful disjunctions of scale and imagery that act as a perfect complement to and analogy for one of New York's most vital and changing neighborhoods . At leastPriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 Purple People Eaters Big Purple Plants Some Green on Mercer Street Friday , May 28, 2010, by Pete Click the image above to view the full . photogallery Hey , NYU neighbors on Mercer Street , those trees you suddenly see around you are not a dream What went in the ground this week between West 3rd and West 4th streets is the first batch of 22 new trees , part of a much publicized plan from landscape architect Mathews Nielsen for what's now called Mercer Plaza A few years back the locals fought a losing battle with NYU planners over 18 mature treesJapanese lilacs ,
The 610 Park Avenue duplex owned by Nautica founder David Chu and his wife (who've decamped to 15 CPW) was PriceChopped by $3 million yesterday, to a new ask of $29.8M. That works out to only a 9 percent chop, but hey, $3M off sounds like a steal, right? The place comes with a sweet terrace and optional catering from Daniel Boulud's restaurant downstairs. [StreetEasy; previously]
: PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 Recaps Selling New York : Putting the Dome' in Domesticity Friday , May 28, 2010, by Joey Last night was another episode of Selling New York HGTV's reality show following Manhattan brokerages CORE and Gumley Haft Kleier as they try to sell fabulous properties fabulously . Here , our recap of how the NYC real estate industry is portrayed to the world . This week's SNY was all about babies It was up to GHK broker Sabrina Kleier Morgenstern to squire around an expecting couple who were initially drawn to the kidville that is the Upper East Side , but soon realize, PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 Brooklyn Theater , De-Gehry'd Friday , May 28, 2010, by Sara Brooklyn Theater , De-Gehry'd The architects went before Community Board 2 this week to present new designs for the Theater for a New Audience the project now helmed just by Hugh Hardy after starchitect Frank Gehry was . booted The new version retains most of the glassy original Gehry-Hardy design , but also includes a curtain of vines around the theater's entrance , according to the Post Anyone got new renderings and want to send them our way NYP previously Fort Greene Frank Gehry Hugh Hardy Theater For, PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 Midtown , 2.975M Friday , May 28, 2010, by Curbed Network Listings Midtown , 2.975M 1 BR , 1 BA , 1,155 sq ft Condo Asking : 2,975,000 The Plaza 1 Central Park South Corcoran QuickListings are paid advertisements from trusted Curbed . advertisers Curbed aims to make all advertising on the site as valuable and relevant as possible to our readers , and as part of this , Curbed allows trusted advertisers to pay to promote their listings in the blog flow . All sponsored posts on Curbed , including QuickListings , are identified as such and carry a light shading to
PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 Construction Accidents Construction Worker Falls to His Death at Clinton Hill Site Friday , May 28, 2010, by Sara The construction foreman on a Brooklyn project fell to his death yesterday afternoon , The Daily News reports . Luis Zaruma fell from the fifth floor of an under-construction residential project on Bedford Avenue in Clinton Hill . A tipster tells us the project in question was 892 Bedford Avenue seen in the Google Street view shot at right and Brooklyn 11211 agrees . A Department of Buildings complaint filed yesterday for 892 Bedford says a construction
PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 On the Market Scuba-Diving Film Producers List 3.1M Park Slope Brownstone Friday , May 28, 2010, by Sara We've been enjoying our townhouses with a bit of an aquatic theme lately , and here's another : 144 Lincoln Place which recently hit the market asking 3.1 million So where's the water The Times getting a jump on the holiday weekend with some Sunday real estate stories up early , reports the place is owned by Chris Kentis and Laura Lau , the team responsible for the 2003 movie Open Water about a couple left behind by their scuba-diving group and forced to facePriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 The Fifth Avenue Sell-Off Friday , May 28, 2010, by Sara The Fifth Avenue Sell-Off If we wondered whether the world would end when there two apartments in 834 Fifth Avenue listed for sale at the same time , we're , like , 99.9 percent sure it's actually going to end now , with two sales at the co-op having closed within two . months The latest to sell is a 16.5 million 2BR purchased by the head of a company that makes security inks for bank notes , passports , and lottery scratch cards , aka the only shot most of us will ever have at an apartment in 834 Fifth . WSJ
PriceChopper Gwathmey-Designed Apartment Now Nearly 45 Percent Off Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 25 new posts Eater NY 25 new posts Racked NY 21 new posts hamptons 2 new posts MARKETPLACE Friday , May 28, 2010 Linkage Manhattan Map Getting Wider New Buildings Far From Parks Friday , May 28, 2010, by Sara Via Curbed Photo Pool Tim Schreier Manhattan getting 30 percent bigger in new subway map NYT Where to find NYC's best cell phone reception : the Lincoln Tunnel WSJ Try to take a photo of Ponzi schemer's building , get punched by doorman NYDN State parks will stay open for Memorial Day weekend NYP Only 70 percent of new Manhattan development within a quarter-mile of a park NYT Universal Studios rebuilds fake Manhattan in Los Angeles NYDN Actress Connie Stevens sells Park
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 CurbedWire Edge's Affordable Rentals Open Cooper Union Building Honored Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joey WILLIAMSBURG Politicos like City Planning commish Amanda Burden and HPD commish Rafael E . Cestero gathered to cut the ribbon on the Williamsburg Community Apartments which is the name of the 347-unit affordable housing portion of Edge The former ghost town along Kent Avenue is the largest inclusionary zoning project to open to date , and a rather chipper Burden commented , This important development epitomizes many of the goals of the Greenpoint
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Linkage Slumlord Turns Himself in Workers Back at Stalled Site More Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Sara More angry New Yorker sidewalk art , via Runnin' Scared Slumlord turns himself in after arrest warrant Village Voice New public art project plans to give people working keys to the city PSFK Other celebs who should join their local community boards DNAinfo FSBO columnists try out a broker Ruh-roh BU Some Williamsburg building post-abandonment destructoporn Nathan Kensinger Workers on the scene again at stop-work-ordered 100 Third Avenue EVG The newest set of
"Tour de Verre has a shape and style to it. This is a boring bunch of boxes w/ vertical stripes. I wish it looked more like Foster's elegant 610 Lexington and make it a true super-needle."—NYC architect [Another Look at Carnegie 57, the New Monster of Midtown]
: Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 PriceSpotter Big Reveal : Pricing a Taste of Downtown on the Upper East Side Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joey And now , the results of this week's PriceSpotter asking price guessing game Location 360 East 88th Street 2D Asking 1,995,000 Our magazine-featured , Tribeca-inspired duplex turned out to be in the Leighton House a sliver tower in Yorkville . It didn't fool many PriceSpotters , as a pair of folks correctly guessed the asking price . Do click back over for some entertaining conversation about the floorplan . So we guess the logical next question is :
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 What's Cookin' Soho Loft's Kitchen Gets Lost in Harlem Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joey What's cooler than being cool This kitchen , which we're becoming more obsessed with the longer we're exposed to its icy blue stare . Adding to the intrigue is that it looks nothing like the rest of the apartment , a triplex on top of three commercial floors at 2280 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard in Harlem at 134th Street The whole building is for sale for 2.15 million . Or 2 million . Or maybe it's 1.85 million No matter which active listing you pick , it's still cheaper thanCelebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 The Plaza's Fancy Basement Eats Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Sara The Plaza's Fancy Basement Eats The fact that it's essentially a ghost town can't keep celebrity chef Todd English away from the shopping mall at the Plaza Eater has the rundown on his Plaza Food Hall , which launched last night and is located just behind the shopping mall . On offer : sushi , burgers , dumplings , tapas , pizza , and more . If a food court springs up in the basement of a much-mocked condo-hotel and no one comes to eat there , does it matter Eater previously Midtown Midtown West
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Real Estate Sold Human Gondola Sells Upper East Side Townhouse Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Sara Human gondolas . They're like , you know , when a guy . dresses like a gondola . to raise money for crumbling Venice landmarks . Anyway , Randolph Guthrie used to be one , and so did his wife Beatrice . They housed an organization called Save Venicewhich holds an annual masked ball where people dress as gondolas to raise money for Venetian artwork and buildings destroyed by floodingin their townhouse at 15 East 74th Street But they listed the place for 19.5 million
. Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 On the Racked Brits Take Columbus Ave . Bleecker Street Oldtimers Vanish More Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joey And now , the latest from Racked NY covering shopping and retail from the sidewalks . up 1 Upper West Side Quietly in the night , like an invading army of Red Coats , Burberry Brit opened on Columbus Avenue . The slick boutique is right next to Uggs , meaning we can expect a good Aussie-on-Brit brawl any second . now 2 West Village The great Bleecker Street die-off continues with the passing of antiques store Leo Design , which shares a block with theCelebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Lawsuits Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Sara Lawsuits The Observer files an update on the Broadway Triangle lawsuit , which could affect the construction of 2,000 new housing . units A judge ruled last week that the lawsuit could proceed , but threw out most of the opponents' claims except the one that the city designed the project to favor Hasidic Jewish tenants . Ruh-roh The suit claims stats show the general population doesn't need as many large apartments as were planned for the project , which could mean a challenge in the offing under the Fair Housing Act .
, , Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Development Update-o-rama Murano , LIC's Odd New Light Show Building , Hits the Market Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joey The first of Long Island City's newborn triplets is showing its hand early . Though Murano which just to remind you will have a nightly multicolor LED show and a moat , is having its grand opening party and first open house next week , some listings have trickled online . Whats the damage Well , to compare the glassy new Borden Avenue building to other recent additions to the LIC market , Murano looks a touch more expensive than L Haus andCelebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 On the Market Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Sara On the Market EV Grieve digs up some evidence that the proposed luxury rental building at Houston and Avenue D with 600-square-foot , 2,800 studios , might actually be . happening The ground floor retail listing is now online , for 9,711 square feet on the ground floor and 4,816 square feet in the basement , rent available on request . Based on neighboring tenants Duane Reade , Dunkin Donuts , Subway , Capital One the new occupant's likely to be a chain store . We're still going with the alternate universe theory on
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Reader Rant Battery Park City Parent Vows to Break Park Rules Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joey Like other new parks or park-like things CaVaLa the High Line etc . Battery Park City's Teardrop Park South has a fun water feature that on a hot afternoon can prove very tempting . So what happens when poor , innocent , overheating children with few publicly accessible swimming pools try to take advantage of this new neighborhood amenity : This Went to the new Teardrop Park South yesterday with my kids . Super tiny space , but the water features are pretty awesome .
Finally, some relief for cranky Bleecker Street residents? The Sex and the City bus tour has dropped its Bleecker Street Magnolia stop, saying the store can no longer provide enough cupcakes for the up to 600 weekend tour-takers. Instead, they eat cupcakes from Chelsea's Billy's Bakery on the bus. But there's still a 20 minute photo stop on Bleecker. Sorry, West Villagers! [WSJ]
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 27 new posts Eater NY 22 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 0 new posts MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Curbed Inside Construction Wraps Up on 141 Fifth's Cupola Penthouse Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Sara Click the image above to view the full . photogallery Despite a few complaints that its restored facade is too creamy we've still been pretty excited about the cupola penthouse at 141 Fifth Avenue The marketing folks at the CORE group held a party to celebrate the end of construction on the unit , and though we missed the promised cabaret and burlesque performance , we did snap some photos . The building is almost sold out , but the cupola's still on offer for 12
: Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 30 new posts Eater NY 23 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 1 new post MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 sponsored post The Brooklyner : Brooklyn's Tallest Tower Leasing High-Floor Units Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joshua Now the tallest building in the borough , The Brooklyner offers studio , 1 2 bedroom rental apartments with stellar views of the city , harbor , rivers and beyond . The tower is located in Downtown Brooklyn , a new residential neighborhood that lies at the core of Brooklyn Heights , DUMBO , Fort Greene , Boerum Hill , Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens . Nearly every subway line is accessible within 3 blocks . Select building features include a
One broker wants to save buyers the annoyance of having to type property addresses into their iPhones by adding bar codes to property ads, hats, and t-shirts. Download app, hold your iDevice up to the bar code and go straight to the listing website. "You'll get all of my listings by scanning someone's head," broker Toni Haber tells Brick Underground. There's no way this could get awkward. [BrickUnderground]
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 30 new posts Eater NY 23 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 1 new post MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Architectural Craziness First Set of Balls Meets LIC's New Pole Dance Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joey Photos via Archpaper . One of the best architecture stunts of the summer is SO-IL's Pole Dance the winner of this year's Young Architects Program put on by Long Island City art museum P.S . 1. The museum's courtyard will host 100 flexible fiberglass rods supporting a huge net holding up dozens of bouncy balls , because , well , why not Matt Chaban over at the Archpaper snapped some spy shots of the installation just stuffing a dollar in a museum curator's
Following up on Long Island's Amityville Horror House (right) hitting the market for $1.15 million, Newsweek wonders: Do famous murders devalue real estate? Depends! Examples from this slideshow include the Menendez house (down in value!), Jeffrey Dahmer's Milwaukee building (up!) and Nicole Brown Simpson's house (down!). [Newsweek; previously]
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 30 new posts Eater NY 23 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 1 new post MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Downtown Brooklyn Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Curbed Network Listings Downtown Brooklyn 2 BR , 2 BA , 976 sq ft Condo Rent : 2,854 mo . The Brooklyner 111 Lawrence St , Line H thebrooklyner.com QuickListings are paid advertisements from trusted Curbed . advertisers Curbed aims to make all advertising on the site as valuable and relevant as possible to our readers , and as part of this , Curbed allows trusted advertisers to pay to promote their listings in the blog flow . All sponsored posts on Curbed , including QuickListings , are identified as such and carry a
Williamsburg's premier waterfront loft bldg
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Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 30 new posts Eater NY 23 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 1 new post MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Rent Wars Upper East Side School Gears Up for Another Eviction Battle Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Sara The Upper East Side's posh Brearley School appeared to admit defeat a few months ago in its battle against the elderly rent-stabilized tenants of 85 East End Avenue , who refused to be ousted as part of the school's plan to expand into their building . But it turns out Brearley just had other tricks up its sleeve . The school has purchased 70, 72, and 74 East End Avenue instead , The Real Deal reports . Which means another 15 apartments' worth of rent-stabilized
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 30 new posts Eater NY 23 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 1 new post MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Skyline Update Another Look at Carnegie 57, the New Monster of Midtown Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joey The Observer pried another rendering of Carnegie 57 out of the grip of developer Gary Barnett's Extell , this one showing what the Park Hyatt hotel redonkulously expensive condo tower designed by Christian de Portzamparc will do to the Central Park South skyline . The billion-dollar glassy skyscraper will be the tallest residential building in the city when completed , and let's just say spotting it in this rendering is a bit easier than finding Waldo .
The Wall Street Journal reports some encouraging news for whomever got stuck with the job of updating the DOB's stalled sites list: Since February 2009, 364 building sites have restarted work, and 94 have been completed. Queens and Brooklyn each have over 100 formerly arrested developments that have suddenly found new life. And they're hungry for brains. BRAINS! [WSJ]
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 30 new posts Eater NY 23 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 1 new post MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Moynihan Still Courting MSG Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joey Moynihan Still Courting MSG Is the dream of a new Madison Square Garden built into the Farley Post Office Moynihan Station alive The owners of MSG have repeatedly resisted the idea , and a massive renovation of the current arena is about to kick off , but the Times reports developer Steven Roth is still fighting for an MSG move . His argument The arena renovation could be longer and costlier than expected , and when done the arena still won't be as good as Brooklyn's Barclays Center . No word on whetherCelebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 30 new posts Eater NY 23 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 1 new post MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Sara Click the image above to view the full . photogallery The new owner of this 1BR 53 Warren Street penthouse Craig . Daniel Craig The Wall Street Journal reports that the actor and his girlfriend are the soon-to-close owners of the place after paying all cash . It was listed for 1.9 million but received multiple bids , so we don't know the final sales price yet . At 1,121 square feet it seems smallish for a celebrity pad , but we've got no complaints about those
Celebrity Real Estate Inside Daniel Craig's New Tribeca Pied-a-Terre Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 30 new posts Eater NY 23 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 1 new post MARKETPLACE Thursday , May 27, 2010 Linkage Huge Cash Deal in TWC What's Your Building Biology More Thursday , May 27, 2010, by Joey An East Williamsburg deal-in-the-making , via New York Shitty President of concrete test fakers gets 7 to 21 years in prison NYT Russian oligarch buys Time Warner Center duplex for 15.95M in cash NYP Building biology' experts tell you what's wrong with your apartment NYT Some in South Williamsburg wants a park built over the BQE BK Paper City may buy Village's 75 Morton Street for new school NYDN Brooklyn College stopped from paving paradise to put up a parking lot
Mindboggling Reveals Extell's 75-Story Midtown Condo Hotel Finally Revealed Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 28 new posts Eater NY 26 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 1 new post MARKETPLACE Wednesday , May 26, 2010 CurbedWire Orchard Street Hell Reactivated Closings to Begin at 500 Fourth Wednesday , May 26, 2010, by Joey LOWER EAST SIDE The latest twist in the saga of the Orchard Street Hell Building sudden activity From next to 180 Orchard Street , a tipster writes : We live in an apartment on ludlow next to the Orchard hell site . This week we've heard noises of construction hammering , rotary saws I'm guessing about 4-5 workers on site , hidden beneath the second story . I also spotted what seemed to be a site super giving a tour of the site to a rather young
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"More steel and glass. Looks pretty boring. The wavy basketweave entrance texture is at least some nod to ornament. I can't imagine anyone paying 15 CPW prices to live in something that looks like an office building in Jersey City."—Troy Torrison [Extell's 75-Story Midtown Condo/Hotel Finally Revealed!]
Mindboggling Reveals Extell's 75-Story Midtown Condo Hotel Finally Revealed Curbed Marketplace Curbed Marketplace Curbed NY 28 new posts Eater NY 26 new posts Racked NY 16 new posts hamptons 1 new post MARKETPLACE Wednesday , May 26, 2010 PriceSpotter Pricing a Taste of Downtown on the Upper East Side Wednesday , May 26, 2010, by Joey PriceSpotter is Curbed's asking price guessing game . We provide you with some details and pictures from an apartment listing , and you take a crack at the price in the comments . Tomorrow we reveal the answer . And hey , no cheating What Where 2BR , 2BA condo on East 88th Street btwn First Second Square Feet 1,765 Maintenance CC 1,395 The Skinny Something we don't normally find in Yorkville apartments : a double-height living room with a wall of windows .
Remember Me Forgot your password Register Home About Stadium Tips Contact Press Discount Yankees Tickets Attendance Tracker 09 Attendance Tracker 10 Attendance Tracker Archives 2009 Archives 2010 Archives Old Site Hiatus Written by Ross Tuesday , 25 May 2010 21:57 Hey all . Once again , we find ourselves overwhelmed by life and underwhelmed by blogging about the Yankee Stadium experience . We've had some disappointing experiences at the stadium this season , but the main reason for the lack of posts is our upcoming nuptials set to occur on June 18 in Turks and Caicos . Hopefully we'll emerge from that trip re-energized to do what we do here . Meanwhile , we're hoping for some contributions from blog contributor , Leonora , and potentially other fans of the . blog If you've have a
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IN MEMORY OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS
A meeting to honor the memory of Frederick Douglass was held last night in the Concord Baptist Church of Christ on Duffield street. Among the speakers was the Rev. Hiram Hutchins, whose 85 years, it is said, make him the oldest living abolitionist. Others who addressed the meeting included the Rev. [...]
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I first saw Mr. Lincoln in the early summer of 1863. I had a special object in seeing him at that time. I had been engaged in raising two regiments of colored men in Massachussetts, the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth. Two of my sons were in those regiments. Jefferson Davis had taken notice of these colored [...]