Green Street picked up the Williamsburg properties for $15.5 million late last year from the Franquinha family, against the apparent objections ofCrest's owner, Joseph Franquinha. Over the decades, the hardware store that was first started by Joseph's father and uncle had evolved with the neighborhood, from a place where handymen and artists living in converted lofts could get paint or new pipes to a destination for luxury-condo buyers looking for ZZ plants.
Tribeca Park Cafe, the corner deli at Walker and West Broadway, closed on Friday, August 29, after 45 years. The closure follows the $18 million sale of the property in January. The one-story building is slated for demolition to make way for a 10-story condo project from Sumaida + Khurana, the development firm behind 157 Hudson, the landmark brick building on Collister, and a new building at 152 Elizabeth designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, according to Tribeca Citizen.
In 1976, the year the United States celebrated its bicentennial, Donald J. Trump, thirty, leonine, and three-piece-suited, was chauffeured around Manhattan by an armed laid-off city cop in a silver Cadillac with "DJT" plates, while talking on his hot-shot car phone and making deals. "He could sell sand to the Arabs and refrigerators to the Eskimos," an architect told the Times. That architect was drawing up plans for a convention center that Trump hoped to build in midtown.
Insurance is the climate crisis canary in the coal mine, and the canary is dying. Severe-weather events are more common and extreme because we're not doing enough, fast enough, to transition from fossil fuels and other greenhouse gas-emitting industries.
Havering Council issued a temporary stop notice on a Hornchurch flat development due to breaches of planning rules, halting construction until compliance is achieved.
They [postponed] it because they recognize they don't have the support... a few more weeks is not enough time to meaningfully alter a plan that insists on misunderstanding the opportunity in front of us.
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s plans to transform Sazan Island into a luxury resort reflect a significant investment in Albanian real estate, highlighting their continued influence post-Trump administration.
"I have people that would come in and train and it's affected the training. We felt like it wasn't safe for them to be using those trails."
The St. Anne's Home senior care facility closing has sparked significant interest for its redevelopment, with potential buyers eyeing plans that could dramatically increase the site's housing density.
Colette brings eclectic design and coliving options to Buzzard Point, aiming to foster a community feel reminiscent of a European village.