Amid the buzz and controversy surrounding Amazon's selection of Long Island City as the site for the online retailing giant's newest headquarters, at least one major group is welcoming the move with open arms. SEIU-32BJ, the labor union …
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Last week, the usually-feuding Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio actually agreed on something. The two appeared at a joint press conference to celebrate a deal to bring Amazon to Long Island City, as part of a long-in-the…
In the heart of a re-conceived and reborn urban community on a prime development site in the Court Square section of Long Island City is Corte . An 85-unit condominium building now nearing completion, Corte is poised to bring a unique S…
Look around any busy subway car, or row of park benches on a balmy day, and you'll see New Yorkers of all stripes reading all kinds of media; novels, nonfiction, news, you name it. This is a city that appreciates literature. It's also a…
From the rollicking days of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Stone Pony to the desolate boardwalk scenes in Darren Aronofsky's 2008 film The Wrestler , to today's thriving beachfront escape with a vibrant LGBTQ scene,…
Things got somewhat contentious at City Hall earlier this week over proposed legislation that would impact both the city’s commercial tenants and landlords , amid the ongoing trend of small and beloved neighborhood businesses closing dow…
A neighborhood group opposed to a condo development project on Manhattan's East Side is still making some noise after it filed a lawsuit over the summer. As reported in amNY , the East River Fifties Alliance organization was repres…
Talk about an education in real estate: recent condo developments on the Upper East and Upper West sides have coincidentally both involved the displacements of two schools at their respective construction sites. At East 85 th Street and…
Housing Development Fund Corporation (HDFC) cooperatives were set up some 40 years ago as a means of establishing home ownership opportunities for low-income residents in New York City. The program also served to help the city stabilize nei…
The seemingly perpetually under-construction Hudson Yards redevelopment – spanning the area from 29 th to 43rd streets between 7 th Avenue and the West Side Highway in Manhattan – is often the target of critique for everything from co…