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How long can you tread water?
We all know just how cutthroat New York Real Estate is, but in case you were looking for some hard numbers, the Times serves them up cold: if it comes down to your life or rentable square feet, well, don’t ask a question you don’t want to know the answer to. Commercial property owners, which […]
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How do you spell failure? B.P.C.
There’s a term used in selling investment products that comes up when it is necessary to explicate the gap between the rosy projections of any piece of sales literature (that mythical 7-11% return that climbs steadily northward) and what may have actually happened: it’s called hindsight bias — one of the few terms that makes […]
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At least we can look up her skirt.
More we-are-winning-the-battle kind of news today: the Statue of Liberty is ‘open’ again, in the same kind of way that ‘anyone’ can be President or get reservations at Nobu. The Statue is now ‘run’ by one of those ‘private-public’ organizations, like the Central Park Conservancy, and it turns out they are just as paternal and […]
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We have a winner!
The votes are in! After an a day of confusion about exactly where we should be expending our precious heightened awareness of impending terrorist attack, it turns out that the selfless workers at the Citicorp Tower (we’ll be all retro here, since they don’t even own it anymore) on Lex and 53rd (officially 153 East […]
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Deaniac.
Dean Bowman should be the most important American singer alive. Cleary, I already think he is. And ‘important’ being a slight distinction from ‘best’ (not that I would be averse to promoting this as well). I’m sure that this isn’t the first time someone has listened to a performer and thought, ‘if everyone just listened […]
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But they might buy the naming rights to the Gowanus — Stillenkarre, perhaps?
IKEA is going to need a lot of free tee shirts to combat the wave of bad press they might be facing, if today’s item in the Daily News is any indication of what the next month will be like. A new study (which follows one completed by ‘Gridlock Sam’ Schwartz that put the potential […]
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A proper civics lesson.
Last week, the Van Alen institute announced the finalists for their Civic Exchange competition, which is developing a prototype for information distribution in lower Manhattan, that, in their words, will: Underscor[e] the critical role of innovative design thinking in the regeneration of downtown, [calling] for designs that will 1) provide information and generate interaction; 2) […]
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We don’t need no stinking murals.
Though Curbed smartly noted last week that the mural at 6th Street and the Bowery is in danger, should the lot be sold, it turns out that the wrecking ball may loom even larger, in the form of that bastion of architectural rigor, the Cooper Union. Turns out space the mural occupies might be worth […]
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Bronx cheer.
Only $100 million dollars. That’s the cagey sell from the only convict to own a baseball team. So we should trust his word. Anyway, just as the RPA observed when they opined that investing in the Jets stadium, one of the oft hidden cost to team subsidies is that, like whiny teenagers, when you hand […]
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And just when you thought real estate agents weren’t vampires.