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New York Real Estate by JT20162016

Stalled construction sites add to more blight in Brooklyn

Leading the city in unfinished buildings: BROOKLYN…. BY Ben Chapman and Elizabeth Lazarowitz NY DAILY NEWS Thursday, November 12th 2009 The city’s count of stalled construction projects in the borough has surged 42% since it began tracking them this summer, according to the Department of Buildings’ latest statistics. Brooklyn has the most stalled sites of […]

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Lower East Side Shul Board Sells Out To Developers; Historians Cry Foul

FROM THE NY TIMES‘ CITY ROOM BLOG This much can be agreed on: An Orthodox congregation established by Eastern European Jews in 1888 occupies a lovely but crumbling neo-Classical building with a two-story Victorian Gothic interior at 415 East Sixth Street, between First Avenue and Avenue A, on the Lower East Side — a neighborhood […]

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Danny Ackroyd Sells His Fat Penthouse In New York City

DAN AYKROYD, once “live from New York,” may soon be gone from New York, or at least from his spacious penthouse on the Upper East Side. Mr. Aykroyd, the comedian, actor and writer, who was a mainstay of “Saturday Night Live” in its heyday in the 1970s, along with John Belushi and Gilda Radner, […]