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• West Village Officially Getting Its Curves

  Published: September 19, 2007, 11:13 am

  Tags: Manhattan Greenwich Village, Manhattan West Village, Real Estate Development

  Square, also known as 122 Greenwich Avenue. The picture comes from the Flickr page of Jeremiah's Vanishing New York, who writes, "The digging machines have rolled in, the trees have been felled, and half the street is blocked off. Say goodbye to this particular patch of sky and get ready to undulate." Indeed! Potential fallout: will the pigeon

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• It Happened One Weekend: Actual Affordable Apartments!

  Published: October 1, 2007, 8:18 am

  Tags: Brooklyn, Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Flatbush Kensington, Manhattan Chelsea, Manhattan Financial District Wall St Battery Park City, Manhattan Greenwich Village, Manhattan Inwood Washington Heights, Manhattan Soho, Queens Astoria Beyond, Real Estate For

  1) It's that time of year again, when a reporter sets out to find NYC apartments for under or around the national median price (which is now $224,000). This go-round's winning neighborhoods: Inwood, Jackson Heights, Forest Hills, Flatbush—and the place you're really not moving to—Riverdale. ['Even in New York, Affordable

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• On the Racked: Marc Jacobs W. Village Takeover, Big Names Avoid Plaza, Yawns Over Kors in Soho, More

  Published: October 4, 2007, 1:50 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn, Manhattan Greenwich Village, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Manhattan Soho, Racked

  the sidewalks up. 1) West Village: There's more evidence of the Marc Jacobs-fication of the Village. Yet another MJ location at W. 4th Street and Bank is now confirmed. A tipster writes, "I don't think the neighbors, or the landlord are ready for the chaos of cheap trinkets MJ plans on installing. Not even Sex and the City filming in the salon

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• CurbedWire: St. Vincent's Tries Making Friends, Digging Holes in Harlem, Moody's Building Coming Down?

  Published: October 5, 2007, 5:45 pm

  Tags: Curbedwire, Manhattan Financial District Wall St Battery Park City, Manhattan Greenwich Village, Manhattan Harlem Morningside Heights

  the Jewell/flickr] WEST VILLAGE—There's a distinct possibility that the "Friends of the New St. Vincent's, as reported in the new Villager, isn't making friends with everybody. In fact, the story about former Mayor Koch calling around to build support for the hospital's expansion plan has rubbed some the wrong way. For instance, this

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• Sleepy's Will Survive the Onslaught of Soho Love

  Published: October 10, 2007, 2:19 pm

  Tags: Manhattan Greenwich Village, Manhattan Soho, Nyc Codes Regulations, Real Estate Development

  In answer to last week's CurbedWire report of an assemblage of properties on "the west edge of Soho," the most important thing is that Sleepy's at 176 Sixth Avenue will remain. Preservationists rejoice! That big plastic sign shall be spared! But no such luck for three 19th Century brick walk-ups which lie just to the north of the mattress

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• Steven Holl Gives NYU Philosophers Something to Smile About

  Published: October 10, 2007, 2:52 pm

  Tags: Architecture, Design Shelter, Manhattan Greenwich Village

  [All photos copyright Andy Ryan] All eyes may be on Steven Holl's Towering S planned for the 30th Street Spur of the High Line, but the architect has recently—and somewhat quietly—completed another New York City project: the renovation of 3-5 Washington Place, home to NYU's Department of Philosophy. The landmarked exterior of the 1890

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• Battle of St. Vincent's Ready To Start in Earnest

  Published: October 11, 2007, 11:20 am

  Tags: Manhattan Greenwich Village, Real Estate Development

  building in the Greeenwich Village Historic District), a mid-block apartment building, and several townhouses in between. Both main buildings would be considerably larger than the current St. Vincent's Coleman Pavillion, which at 200 ft. is their largest building right now and one of the largest in Greenwich Village. This would be the largest

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• It Happened One Weekend: Brooklyn Bargains, For Sale By Developer, More

  Published: October 15, 2007, 8:41 am

  Tags: Manhattan East Harlem, Manhattan Greenwich Village, Manhattan Lower East Side, Manhattan Upper East Side, Real Estate Development, Real Estate For Rent, Real Estate Miscellany

  1) A year ago, the suggestion of negotiating the price on a new Brooklyn condo would have got you laughed out of the borough. Now, especially in neigborhoods like Williamsburg and Greenwood Heights, developers are making concessions. Including at—wait for it—55 Berry! ['Brooklyn: A Bargain Hunter's Guide'/Christine Haughney 2) Up in

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• Fake Dorm Denied in Bid to Give Up its Fakeness

  Published: November 12, 2007, 2:49 pm

  Tags: Manhattan Greenwich Village, Real Estate Development

  The battle over the multi-story addition to the Circle in the Square Theater at 159 Bleecker Street has been continuously raging since the summer of 2004, despite the actual completed construction of that addition. The building was allowed to grow to eight stories on a low-rise block because the developer was going to use some of the space as

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• Imperialist Manhattan Motorists Seize Bicyclists' Land

  Published: November 28, 2007, 11:35 am

  Tags: City Life, Manhattan Greenwich Village

  the second-class citizens of Manhattan transit, so ignorant to the fact that drivers don't give a shit about them or their little bike lane. · New Bleecker Bike Lane Already Blocked by Parked Cars

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• For Gentrifying Areas, the PriceChopper Cometh

  Published: November 29, 2007, 12:20 pm

  Tags: Brooklyn Dumbo, Brooklyn Prospect Heights, Manhattan Chinatown, Manhattan Greenwich Village, Manhattan Harlem Morningside Heights, Manhattan Lower East Side, Real Estate For Sale

  Grab the nearest brown paper bag, because the Sun's Bradley Hope performs the grim task today of rounding up a crop of new developments that have recently undergone price cuts, and he concludes: "Developments in areas that began gentrifying in the latest real estate boom cycle, including Central Harlem, Chinatown, DUMBO, and Prospect Heights, are

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• Betsy Johnson's Penthouse: That's Rather Hideous?

  Published: December 10, 2007, 2:22 pm

  Tags: Design Shelter, Manhattan Greenwich Village, Real Estate For Sale

  As mentioned in this morning's celeb wrap, Betsey Johnson's very pink duplex penthouse at 45 Fifth Avenue is for sale for $3.6 million. That's basically the whole story, but the apartment seems to have made quite the impression on the Curbed readership. Several people have written in to ask how we could pass up giving Betsey's place the That's

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• Celebrity Real Estate Wrap: Betsey's Pink Palace

  Published: December 10, 2007, 9:08 am

  Tags: Manhattan Greenwich Village, Manhattan Soho, Outside Nyc The Hamptons, Real Estate For Sale, Real Estate Sold

  1) Who the heck would turn their Gold Coast penthouse duplex into "a lavishly presented confection of fifties Hollywood glamour trimmed in lace, velvet, and gold tassels, beneath the signature pink paint and fabulously frou-frou furnishings?" Oh, Betsey Johnson. Yeah, that makes sense. [NYMag/S. Jhoanna Robledo] 2) Lazy Sunday, wake up in the

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• BREAKING CurbedWire: Washington Sq. Park Work Underway

  Published: December 11, 2007, 11:05 am

  Tags: Manhattan Greenwich Village, Urban Planning

  VILLAGE—After decades of plans and false starts, not to mention a bunch of recent lawsuits, the redo of Washington Square Park is actually underway. Numerous reports have landed in our inbox this morning of workers on the scene, construction supplies arriving and some areas being closed off to the public. We'll have photos in a bit to

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• Evidence of Workers Working in Washington Sq. Park

  Published: December 11, 2007, 3:56 pm

  Tags: Manhattan Greenwich Village, Urban Planning

  Attention people of Greenwich Village, NYU undergrads, aging hippies and small-time dope dealers: feast your eyes on your precious Washington Square Park! Orange construction netting surrounds your precious fountain! Workers are tinkering near your precious arch! As mentioned earlier, it appears that the city has followed through on its threat

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