One of the five real estate moguls bidding for a casino license in Manhattan is hoping to gain support by offering to place a huge ferris wheel overlooking the East River atop the casino. Photo: Soloviev Enterprises Ante Up: Developers Must Pony Up $1M to Play Casino Game Only high rollers can play in this Casino game. That was the basic message as New York State set up the process to apply... News 06 Jan 2023 | 01:31
NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (third from right) describes the clean-up operation at the site of the World Trade Center terrorist attack in lower Manhattan to Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (second from left) on Nov. 14, 2001. Photo: Department of Defense photo by R. D. Ward, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Giuliani’s Fall from America’s Mayor to Trump Sycophant There came a moment when Michael Bromwich began to think this was not the Rudolph Giuliani he had worked with to prosecute... News 31 Dec 2022 | 05:01
Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan issue health guidance ahead of the holiday season. City Hall, Tuesday, December 20, 2022. Photo: Caroline Willis/Mayoral Photography Office Bypassing the Bivalent Booster If the Great City were granted one holiday wish it should probably be this: All we want for Christmas is for everyone to... News 28 Dec 2022 | 09:19
Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams at announcement for New New York panel’s action plan. Photo: Don Pollard / Office of Governor Kathy Hochul ( Don Pollard) Penn Station and the New New York Governor Kathy Hochul was told by a key legislator that she must come up with a new plan for rebuilding Penn Station and... News 15 Dec 2022 | 03:33
Opponents call this “eyewash”: Hochul and the ESD’s planned underground Penn Station, with the long atrium next to the truck bay being the predominant source of bringing natural light to the two-block station. Rendering by FX Collaborative Fighting ‘Eyewash’ on Penn Station One of the challenges of debating a development project is that the core of the argument is presented in images, not words.... News 09 Dec 2022 | 09:40
Mayor Eric Adams receiving his second COVID-19 booster shot at City Hall on September 20, 2022. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office Vaccine Angst For a brief moment we greeted those vaccines as our salvation from COVID-19, scrambling for appointments and celebrating... News 27 Nov 2022 | 10:34
May 2009 photograph by C. Ford Peatross, staircase, former Restaurant Longchamps # 12, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street (Empire State Building), opened 1938. Photo courtesy of C. Ford Peatross Taking Away the Stairway A historic stairway, the last surviving restaurant interior designed by the noted New York artist Winold Reiss, has been... News 15 Nov 2022 | 01:02
Emergency field hospital tents in Central Park across from Mount Sinai in March 2020. Photo: Nancy Ploeger An Unhappy Anniversary for COVID-19 The anniversary of an event that has killed some 15 million people around the world, so far, would seem to cry out for a... News 11 Nov 2022 | 07:04
Signs marking a polling place on the Upper West Side during the first summer 2022 primary. Photo: Abigail Gruskin Voting While Older One of the confusing things about American elections is that the outcome is usually determined not by who people decide to... News 28 Oct 2022 | 07:17
Rendering of a redesigned Penn Station. Photo: Office of Governor Kathy Hochul Stopping Penn Redevelopment Opponents of Governor Kathy Hochul’s plan to redevelop the Penn Station neighborhood sued the state alleging that the plan... News 27 Oct 2022 | 05:59
Layla Law-Gisiko, chair of CB5’s land use, housing and zoning committee committee. Photo: Katrina Hajagos Starting Over on Penn Station Dissatisfied with current plans for redeveloping the Penn Station neighborhood, the local community board voted Thursday... News 15 Oct 2022 | 06:07
Surprise statement: City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (left) said at a Citizens Union breakfast (with moderator John Avlon) that outdoor dining should be confined to sidewalks. Photo via Adrienne Adams on Twitter Booze and Bike Lanes Nothing is ever simple in the Great City. Take the revolution in outdoor dining wrought by the pandemic. Ok, we still aren’t... News 02 Oct 2022 | 11:43
Dr. Brian Elbel, professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Photo courtesy of NYU Langone Health The COVID Endgame The end of the pandemic is in sight, the World Health Organization said last week, but only if we keep doing what needs to... News 17 Sep 2022 | 12:35
Governor Kathy Hochul provides COVID-19 update and gets a booster shot on September 7, 2022. Photo: Don Pollard / Office of Governor Kathy Hochul Anything But Normal Governor Kathy Hochul said she wants New Yorkers to feel like life is returning to normal. So to help, she lifted the requirement... News 09 Sep 2022 | 10:52
Lobby sign offers workers a chance to win football tickets as an incentive for coming into the office. Photo courtesy of GFP Real Estate When Friday is the New Saturday An existential question hangs like summer thunder clouds over Labor Day this year. Traditionally, the phrases “post-Labor... News 02 Sep 2022 | 12:45
