A memorial wreath and votive candles lay against a fence surrounding the job site where construction worker Jose Ramirez Munoz was killed when the cherry picker he was in hoisted him into a steel beam 32 ft above the ground. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) DOB Halts Work at East Side Site After Worker in Cherry Picker Dies in Freak Accident A few votive candles and a memorial wreath resting against a green fence are the only signs that a 45-year-old worker was... News 19 Dec 2024 | 06:43
Elizabeth Street Garden, looking east from Elizabeth to Mott streets, November 8, 2024, 10:19 a.m. On weekdays, the garden doesn’t open until 11 a.m. ( Brian Berger) Elizabeth St. Garden Gets Reprieve but Eviction—& Senior Housing—Still Likely to Follow Like an inmate on death row, Elizabeth Street Garden (ESG) has been granted yet another stay of execution. On Friday November... News 11 Nov 2024 | 11:20
Photo of 10 Rockefeller Plaza, where the proposed hotel will be located. ( Photo: Alex Dolansky) Aspen Lux Resort Seeking to Open Hotel in Rockefeller Center, Reaches Final Approval Stage The Little Nell, the company behind a five-star luxury ski resort based in Aspen, Colorado, is in its final stages of acquiring... News 08 Nov 2024 | 06:39
The Terence Cardinal Cooke Center, at 1011 First Avenue in Manhattan, has been the headquarters of the Archdiocese of New York since 1973. ( Photo: Transpoman/Wikimedia Commons) Catholic Archdiocese Agrees to Sell 1st Ave HQ for over $100M; Needs Fund to Pay for Sex Abuse Crisis The Roman Catholic Archdioces of New York confirmed to Our Town that it has reached an agreement to sell its 20-story headquarters... News 22 Oct 2024 | 03:57
The Fifth Avenue Hotel at Fifth Avenue and 28th Street is housed in a building originally constructed for a bank in 1907. An adjoining 23-story tower was constructed for the site’s transformation into a hotel. ( Photo by Transpoman (Licensed under CC BY 4.0) Threat of Foreclosure Looms Over the Fifth Avenue Hotel Foreclosure proceedings have been initiated against the owners of Fifth Avenue Hotel, just 10 months after its grand opening,... News 20 Aug 2024 | 04:00
A Chair No More: Ousted CB 5 honcho Samir Lavingia in happier times. ( Courtesy Samir Lavingia) Community Board 5 Chair Battle Ends in Ouster for Lavingia The members of Community Board five divided down the middle as they ousted a housing lobbyist from the chair but elected... News 17 Jun 2024 | 12:22
Without an operating business, a homeless individual and his worldly possessions sprawl in front of this long- vacated restaurant. ( Deborah Fenker) Empty Storefronts Menace The “City of Yes” As soon as 203 West 22nd Street mounted a “For Sale” sign at the property, two homeless men—both neighborhood regulars— swiftly... Voices 16 Jun 2024 | 01:50
One possible version of a new Penn Station ( Photo: ReThinkNYC) Building a New Penn Station? It might happen someday. ReThinkNYC offers its visions today It has been a year since Gov. Kathy Hochul promised to “entertain all concepts” for rebuilding Penn Station. Since that time... News 06 Jun 2024 | 03:47
A view of the skyline of lower Manhattan where rental prices appear to be softening in advance of congestion pricing going into effect later this year. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Is Congestion Pricing Prompting New Renters to Look Outside Zone? The rental landscape in Manhattan took a slight dip in February, fueled by dips in many downtown neighborhoods, even while... News 29 Mar 2024 | 02:10
Meta first leased space at 770 Broadway in 2019. Now it is cutting one third of its footprint there. ( Source: Wikimedia Commons) Meta Drops 275,000 sq ft of Workspace at 770 Broadway Meta Platforms, the social media giant that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is abandoning 275,000 square feet out... News 15 Feb 2024 | 10:53
A rendering of a ten-story mixed-use building which will go up at 280 W. 8th Ave. It is currently undergoing excavation. ( Photo by Jack Ahern ) Red Apple Group Erecting 10-Story Mixed-Use Building on 8th Ave. & W. 24th St. Excavation work is underway for a new ten-story mixed-use building at 8th Ave. & W. 24th St., a building that is being built... News 20 Jan 2024 | 03:44
The former site of the St. Benedict the Moor Church, 338-342 W. 53rd St., has a 1965 rectory and an 1869 church. The rectory will be replaced by a seven-story apartment building, while the church will be renovated. ( Photo: Chia-Tien Nicole Chen) New Apts to Rise Next to Chelsea Site that was First Black Catholic Church in NYC The new owner of several adjacent lots on West 53rd Street has filed plans to build a residential building on the grounds... Home 10 Nov 2023 | 04:03
The Hotel Pennsylvania at its opening in 1919 was an archictectural standout. Now all that is left standing are some steel struts and rubble from the demolished gem. The owner, Vornado Realty Trust, cancelled plans for a redevelopment so the sprawling eyesore is likely to be in place for years. Photo: Layla Law-Gisiko. Ode to the Hotel Pennsylvania The Hotel Pennsylvania is no longer. What is left is a pile of rubble, ruins, untidy, heaped like a carcass, a battlefield.... News 08 Oct 2023 | 12:52
An architectural rendering of the upcoming development at 335 Eighth Ave. ( Image courtesy of MAG Partners.) Construction Begins on a New Mixed-Use Building at 335 Eighth Ave. On Tuesday, Oct. 3, developers broke ground on a new mixed-used building at 335 Eighth Ave., which is slated to bring to... News 06 Oct 2023 | 05:07
Donald Trump said he is being unfairly targeted by New York State Attorney General Letitia James in the business fraud trial that began on Oct. 2 and could last until December. Photo: Michael Vadon/Wikimedia Commons Trump at Opening of Fraud Trial Denounces It As a “Scam;” Trial Could Last Until December (AP)–The fraud lawsuit that could cost former President Donald Trump control of some of his most prized properties went... News 03 Oct 2023 | 12:45
