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January 11, 2012
100 Most Powerless New Yorkers
A 'power list' for the rest of us
Blogs
December 1, 2011
Thursday Night Whole-Lobster Special at Petite Abeille
Flame-grilling the lobster produces a slight smoky flavor. One of the best red-crustacean deals in town is found Thursday evenings at Petite Abeille, where $25 gets you a whole lobster of an estimated pound-and-a-half with a bowl of fries and a Stella. Oh, and there's a little salad, too, s ... More >>
Art
October 26, 2011
Steven Heller Doesn't Need Your Matisse
From Screw to SVA and beyond—a visit with the New York design writer
News
July 20, 2011
Citizen Bloomberg
How our mayor has given us the business
Blogs
June 21, 2011
Petite Abeille Wants to Put Its Honey Where Its Mouth Is
wwarby/FlickrLike seemingly everyone else these days, Petite Abeille wants to put an in-house spin on its food. But its ambitions are literally loftier than most.
Blogs
May 4, 2011
Dan Garodnick Q&A: The Senate Bill That Would Bail Out Landlords and Gut Court Ruling on Stuy Town Rents
David ShankboneIn 2009, a landmark state appeals court ruling found that the owners of Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village had illegally deregulated 4,400 apartments while enjoying special tax breaks from the city. Its impact wasn't quite clear; no one was sure what the legal rents of those apartme ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2011
1 in 4 Parking Permits Are Phony, Says Report
Transportation AlternativesMore than half of those thousands of precious parking permits in the city are either legal permits used illegally or simply illegitimate permits in the first place. And nearly one in four official parking permits are "illicitly photocopied, fraudulent or otherwise invalid. ... More >>
Columns
February 2, 2011
Eat the Rich
The rich are richer than ever, but don't ask them for help
Blogs
January 26, 2011
City's Slumlord Watchdog Leaves: Assessing His Tenure
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the resignation of housing commissioner Rafael Cestero last Friday. Cestero leaves the city agency of Housing Preservation and Development -- the largest developer of affordable housing in the country -- for L M Partners, a private local affordable housing de ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2010
Ice-Pick Bandit Was Just "Stressing" Over Christmas Gifts
39-year-old John Martinez, the accused "ice pick bandit" who was picked up in New Jersey after allegedly cornering and robbing at least six women in elevators in the Bronx's Co-op City and Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town, was indicted yesterday.Today, the New York Post says Martinez (who prosecutors ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2010
"Ice-Pick Bandit" Suspect Nabbed by Jersey Cops
The New York Post says police in Bergen County, New Jersey, have arrested a man whom the NYPD are calling a "person of interest" in the "Ice-Pick Bandit" case. (The so-called "bandit" has held up at least six women in elevators -- using what looks like an ice pick -- in Manhattan's Stuyvesant ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2010
Temporary Walls Come Down: Roommates in Converted Apartments Are About to Get Cozier
Apartment hunting may be the second worse experience endured by city dwellers, only to be beat by subsequent furniture moving. Throughout it all, "building a wall" has been a long-time saving grace for cash-strapped New Yorkers in need of a place to sleep. The case used to be: Can't afford a ... More >>
Columns
April 27, 2010
Pedro Espada's Enablers
The people who brought you Albany's greatest scoundrel
Blogs
April 7, 2010
New Yorkers Are Really Bad at the Census
Just do it. Like, now.Who cares what time it is. Do you know where your census is? If you're like us, you have not the vaguest idea. You think you mailed it last week, but that whole week was a bit of a fog, and now it's so hot (like, record-breaking hot) that it's hard to make sense of any ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2010
Updated: Matzoh Price Watch
Yes, the matzohs are still waiting expectantly to be purchased, but they don't want you to be price-gouged. On the first of March, Fork in the Road instituted our matzoh price watch, in which we report the prices being charged for matzohs around town as Passover approaches. We've added more ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2010
Rose Mankos ID'd as Woman Smashed by 6 Train
The woman killed in the subway yesterday has been identified. Rose M. Mankos, 48, was a lawyer who lived in Stuyvesant Town. She was on the 77th Street platform on the 6 line Thursday afternoon when she dropped her bag on the tracks and climbed down to retrieve it. She couldn't get back up qu ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2010
The Riverton, Latest Collapsed New York Housing Icon, Auctioned for $120M
Under the gaze of Moses, King Solomon, Hammurabi, and Abraham Lincoln (in a mural on the ceiling of the New York County Courthouse rotunda), the latest sad drama in the city's real estate bust played out this morning with minimal fanfare. Speaking slowly and deliberately, the auctioneer finis ... More >>
Blogs
January 10, 2010
Stuy Town owners miss mortgage payment
The Tishman Speyer/Black Rock Realty partnership which bet $5.4 billion that they could convert Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village to market rate housing in a booming real estate market that no longer exists moved one step closer to a total loss on Friday when it missed a $16 million mo ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2009
Stuy Town/Peter Cooper mortgage changes hands
Tishman Speyer and BlackRock, the owners of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan, turned over the main mortgage for the 11,200-unit complex to a "special servicer". Special servicers are given the power to renegotiate the terms of a failing loan and possibly sell the assets t ... More >>
Blogs
October 27, 2009
Stuy Town Tenants Don't Get a Break on November Rents, Despite Ruling
After last week's landmark Stuyvesant Town decision -- in which a state appeals court found that the mega-developer Tishman Speyer had misused city tax breaks and illegally converted to market rate thousands of rent-controlled apartments in the historic complex -- one would expect some confusion. Bu ... More >>
Columns
October 27, 2009
The Mayor's Press Pass
The unexamined world of Mike Bloomberg
Blogs
October 23, 2009
Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared
"it's new york lol same shit lastnight some car was on fire in Fordham crazyy ass shit look." Twitpic by Itlabia. Can you believe last week at this time we were still thinking about Balloon Boy? Yes, that's how we passed our time before Steve Phillips, his "tubby temptress," and other exci ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2009
Tishman Loses Stuy Town Fight; May Have to Pay $200 Million, Default
When Tishman Speyer Properties took thousands of units in Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village -- longtime middle-class bastions on the edge of the hyper-gentrified East Village -- out of regulation and raised rents, tenants sued and a court found that the properties could not be deregulated, b ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2009
After Stuy Town Decision, Experts See Real Estate Market "Collapse." Really?
When a state appeals court decision came down today that private equity-backed realty company Tishman Speyer illegally converted thousands of Stuyvesant Town tenants into luxury units, the company pleaded with the judge that the ruling could be a death blow. Tishman and its partner, the firm Black ... More >>
Blogs
September 11, 2009
Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared
Dancers from InSpirit beckon passers-by to enter a new store on Broadway near 13th Street. Labor Day, with its West Indian American Day Parade, was the high point of the week. The low point was, let's see... the rest of it. 9/11 was a popular topic. It was oddly related to a Twitter Festiv ... More >>
Blogs
September 10, 2009
Stuy Town Owners Back in Court to Defend Jacked-Up Rents
After nearly three years of veritable civil war between two powerful real estate executives and thousands of tenants, the owners of the historic downtown residential complexes, Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, will appear in court again today. Landlords Jerry and Rob Speyer, and their part ... More >>
Blogs
August 4, 2009
Long Green Eggplants Cause an Uproar
Looking more like Indian snake squashes (or pods from another planet!) than eggplants, these veggies created a stir at the Friday Union Square farmers market. Eggplants are slow-growing, often taking three months from seed to mature fruit. So, the heyday of the eggplant season tends to be A ... More >>
News
June 10, 2009
An Unlikely Rescuer from the Jaws of Debt
Looking more like Indian snake squashes (or pods from another planet!) than eggplants, these veggies created a stir at the Friday Union Square farmers market. Eggplants are slow-growing, often taking three months from seed to mature fruit. So, the heyday of the eggplant season tends to be A ... More >>
Columns
May 13, 2009
Another Thompson Supporter Rings Up a Big Pension Fund Score
Looking more like Indian snake squashes (or pods from another planet!) than eggplants, these veggies created a stir at the Friday Union Square farmers market. Eggplants are slow-growing, often taking three months from seed to mature fruit. So, the heyday of the eggplant season tends to be A ... More >>
Blogs
March 6, 2009
Friday's Headlines: Paterson enrages enviros with state backtrack on power plant emissions
[HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart Asset]Your Friday New York headlines...Paterson enrages enviros by going back on NY promise to crack down on power plant emissions.After hubbub, Gandhi items sell for $1.8 million in auction.Landmark law giving mayor control of schools coming up for renewal; cha ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2009
Debt Collectors Rise to New Yorkers' #1 Nuisance, Says Consumer Affairs
New Yorkers complained more about shady debt collectors than about any other shady business last year, says the city's Department of Consumer Affairs. The agency published its annual ranking of top consumer complaints today, and consumer debt collection fraud complaints topped the list for the first ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2009
Debt Buyers*, Unlicensed and Unregulated, Thrive in NYC
In this economic crisis, there's no shortage of people who thrive by taking advantage of other people's misfortunes. At a City Council hearing held last Wednesday, lawmakers and citizens lambasted the unlicensed debt collection agencies that collectively filed 300,000 collection cases in New York Ci ... More >>
Blogs
February 20, 2008
Clip Job: Review: "The Bachelor Party"
In this economic crisis, there's no shortage of people who thrive by taking advantage of other people's misfortunes. At a City Council hearing held last Wednesday, lawmakers and citizens lambasted the unlicensed debt collection agencies that collectively filed 300,000 collection cases in New York Ci ... More >>
Blogs
January 22, 2008
Kool Herc Fights to Save Birthplace of Hip Hop
In this economic crisis, there's no shortage of people who thrive by taking advantage of other people's misfortunes. At a City Council hearing held last Wednesday, lawmakers and citizens lambasted the unlicensed debt collection agencies that collectively filed 300,000 collection cases in New York Ci ... More >>
News
November 27, 2007
Slumming for Landlords
A pair of Bronx pols try to shoot down the latest in tenant protection
Blogs
August 2, 2007
Behind the YouTube Music: Brooklyn's Muppets-Synced Escort
A pair of Bronx pols try to shoot down the latest in tenant protection
Music
July 24, 2007
Muppet! at the Disco
On the endless Donna Summers of Escort, Brooklyn's finest disco orchestra
Blogs
June 16, 2006
Atlantic Yards Lite?
On the endless Donna Summers of Escort, Brooklyn's finest disco orchestra
NYC Life
December 27, 2005
Cops by the Sea
They were detectives. I said, How can you build property so small from scratch?
News
August 16, 2005
Hunting the Magic Number
In council races around town, it's a tale of two cities
Specials
November 23, 2004
Letters
In council races around town, it's a tale of two cities
News
June 1, 2004
SpaghettiOs, Mom's Credit Card, and Centipedes in the Basement
Hungry grads make a shoestring assault on New York
News
July 1, 2003
Mix This
Young South Asians' Love-Hate Relationship with Hip-Hop's New Indian Beats
NYC Life
January 21, 2003
Close-up on Peter Cooper Village
Young South Asians' Love-Hate Relationship with Hip-Hop's New Indian Beats
Specials
November 26, 2002
Letters
Young South Asians' Love-Hate Relationship with Hip-Hop's New Indian Beats
News
June 25, 2002
Insurgent Elders
Tenants Strike at Park West Village
NYC Life
March 5, 2002
Four-Room Co-Op in Circa 1900s Walk-Up
Tenants Strike at Park West Village
Specials
February 13, 2001
Letters
Tenants Strike at Park West Village
NYC Life
October 19, 1999
Two floors of four-story brownstone
Tenants Strike at Park West Village
NYC Life
September 1, 1998
Czeching Out a Mathews Home
Five-room railroad apartment in 1915 Mathews building
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