Tag: Featured

Farewell to a Feisty Friend

At what would turn out to be the midpoint of her life, a woman in her late 30s was seeking a new direction. Still grieving from the loss of the father with whom she shared a bond that she would never replicate, recently graduated from St. John’s Law School, and in the process of setting...
Linda Belfer

Wanna Buy a Vacant Lot?

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...
The vacant lot that has remained empty for more than a decade at 111 Washington Street, and appears likely to remain desolate while the father-and-son team of developers who own the property fight over it in court.

Flip This Affordable Housing Unit

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...

Roll Reversal

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...
Tribeca's Jay Street, looking eastbound from Greenwich Street (toward Hudson Street) is the focus of a proposal to create a new westbound one-way street.

Remix Gets Nixed

Tribeca’s nightlife is a tad less tawdry after a series of recent enforcement actions directed at Remix, a Park Place bar that billed itself as a dance club, but was actually, according to police, operating as an adult entertainment venue. Although Remix has a years-long history of close brushes with the law, and calls by...