An empty lot at the southeast corner of Washington and Carlisle Streets, behind the W Hotel, is being shopped for sale at $260 million. The owners, father-and-son team Fred and Richard Ohebshalom, bought the 11,000-square-foot site of a former parking garage during foreclosure in 2011, for $57.5 million. They subsequently spent millions more assembling air...
1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. 1742 – George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland. 1870 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded. 1902 – James C. Penney opens his first...
A new report by the City’s Independent Budget Office (IBO) indicates that Battery Park City and the Financial District have the highest turnover of tenants in rent-stabilized apartment units of any community in the five boroughs, when tallying buildings built after 1974. The IBO, a publicly funded agency that provides nonpartisan information about the government...
1713 – Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain – English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese & French peace treaty 1775 – The last conviction for witchcraft in Germany takes place. It was on this date, April 11, 1775, that the sentence of death for witchcraft was handed down in Germany. Some records indicate that...
The City’s Department of Transportation (DOT) wants to change the direction of traffic on a one-way street in Tribeca. Jay Street, which runs for one block between Greenwich and Hudson Streets (two blocks, if you count the intersection with Staple Street, an alley that seems to function mainly as a location for film and television...
1710 – The first law regulating copyright is issued in Great Britain 1790 – Robert Gray is first American to circumnavigate the Earth 1841 – New York Tribune begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley 1849 – Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC); sold rights for $400 1864 – Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes emperor of...