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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Users Guide: Midtown East |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 2:20 pm |
| Tags: Asking For It, Clips, Midtown East, Murray Hell, Murray Hill, Top, Users Guide |
| newVideoPlayer("ug_midtown_east_gawker.flv", 475, 376); There's a lot to unpack in Midtown East. A bunch of neighborhoods rolled into one, the area stretches from Gramercy Park in the south to the... |
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| It's Hard Out Here for a Mascot |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 4:01 pm |
| Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, Chelsea, Clinton Hill, Flatbush, Harlem, Manhattan, Midtown East, Williamsburg |
| via Uptown Flavor] Midtown East: Developer Sheldon Solow faces off against locals as he launches the approval process for a massive riverside residential-commercial project between 35th and 41st Streets. [NYS] Williamsburg: When new buildings go up, taggers hit them fast to make sure they fit in with the graffitiscape. [Gowanus Lounge] |
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| On the Racked: Market Table, H&M Date Set, Boss to MePa |
| Published: September 13, 2007, 2:10 pm |
| Tags: Manhattan Meatpacking Mepa North, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Manhattan West Village, Racked, Retail |
| to open next week. 2) Midtown: You know you've been waiting for it: The new 25,000 square foot H&M at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street (505 Fifth Ave) will be open on 9/27. Be one of the first 200 people in and you get a free t-shirt. 3) Midtown/MePa: Also from Midtown, but in a much different category, the retail rumor of the day is that Hugo |
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| Madison Avenue Gets in on Mixed-Use Madness |
| Published: September 14, 2007, 2:28 pm |
| Tags: Hotels, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Real Estate Development |
| The mystery of Madison Avenue has been solved. Near the start of the summer, Steve Cuozzo reported the purchase of several buildings on Madison near 34th Street. The plans called for a new residential tower, but there was still the annoying matter of retail tenants in the low-rise buildings, as well as a long-term lease on a rooftop antenna. |
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| Herman Behr Mansion on Sale for $12 Million |
| Published: September 14, 2007, 3:14 pm |
| Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Heights, Greenpoint, Midtown East, Upper East Side, Williamsburg |
| Paper. [Newyorkshitty] Midtown East: Oh, no! This Sunday is the last day for Madison Avenue's Dahesh Museum of Art, which features 19th- and 20th-century European artists. Dahesh, we hardly knew ye. [Newyorkology] Upper East Side: This area single gal is disgusted with new TV show Gossip Girl's depiction of her hood … and wants |
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| That's Rather Hideous: Needs Less Training |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 3:53 pm |
| Tags: Design Shelter, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay |
| As Apartment Therapy or any design website will tell you, subway tiles are a hot decor trend right now. This, however, may be taking it a bit far. · Listing: East 53rd Street [Halstead] |
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| Ridiculous Amenity Alert: 510 Madison Gets Wet |
| Published: September 19, 2007, 1:10 pm |
| Tags: Commercial Real Estate, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay |
| at 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan and expected to be completed next summer, will have not only a health club just for tenants but also a 20-yard-long swimming pool.Perfect. As if the stock and finance worlds weren't already full of bullshit macho posturing, Harry Macklowe had to go and add a locker room and partial nudity. Let the |
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| Solow's East River Waterfront Moves Forward |
| Published: September 19, 2007, 9:11 am |
| Tags: Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Real Estate Development, Urban Planning |
| of getting his massive East River hole-in-the-ground filled with the mixed-use towers we all know and love. The Sun reports that a Community Board hearing is scheduled tomorrow for the First Avenue development plans, and it's no surprise that since this is what could be the biggest privately owned piece of developable land in Manhattan, |
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| It Happened One Weekend: Beaver's Big Sell & Much More |
| Published: September 24, 2007, 8:45 am |
| Tags: Manhattan Financial District Wall St Battery Park City, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Manhattan Upper West Side Columbus Circle, Market Analysis, Real Estate Sold, Urban Planning |
| aspects of Sheldon Solow's East River plan: restoring public walkways on 39th and 40th Streets to the waterfront. But should these privately-owned walkways be restored to the pre-Con Ed days of public streets? [The City/Saki |
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| Curbed PriceSpotter: Long & Lean in Turtle Bay |
| Published: September 26, 2007, 3:00 pm |
| Tags: Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Real Estate For Sale |
| PriceSpotter is Curbed's asking price guessing game. We give you some details and pictures of an apartment listing, you take a crack at the price in the comments. Tomorrow we reveal the answer. What/Where: 1BR, 1BA condop on 46th Street btwn First/Second Square Feet: 950 Maintenance: $1372.17 The Skinny: That extra seventeen cents must go a |
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| PriceSpotter Big Reveal: Long & Lean in Turtle Bay |
| Published: September 27, 2007, 2:59 pm |
| Tags: Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Real Estate For Sale |
| Location: 310 East 46th Street Asking: $925,000 Quite the response this week! And would you believe that someone guessed the identity of the building—Turtle Bay Towers—way before someone nailed the price? After a wild bidding battle, commemter #39, homeskool, was the winner. Homeskool's train of thought: "Ceiling height commands an |
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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 |
| blocks in the city." 2) Midtown: The redone Plaza is having a hard time signing big names "that many associate with luxury retail (Gucci, Prada, Burberry, Hermès, etc)." Only 65% of the retail space in the building has been claimed. 3) Soho: The Prince Street institution Jerry's is gone, which may be one reason there are yawns about |
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| The Changing Face of Gum Sales: Underwhelming |
| Published: October 5, 2007, 2:00 pm |
| Tags: City Life, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay |
| Commercial broker Bob Egan snapped these photos of one of those newfangled futuristic newsstands. This one was just installed at Madison Avenue and 42nd Street, and we're a little bummed that they don't quite appear to be as pimp-my-newsstand as initially promised. However, the guys in them look much less likely to get killed, so there's a plus. |
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| Rumblings & Bumblings: Growing on Graham, One Ten 3rd's New Buddy, More |
| Published: October 9, 2007, 4:12 pm |
| Tags: Brooklyn Williamsburg, Manhattan East Village, Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Manhattan Midtown West Times Square, Real Estate Development, Real Estate Miscellany, Rumblings Bumblings |
| seen on Flickr/jinxbkny. 2) East Village: Over near the newest East Village tower comes word of another: Any ideas what's going on at the SE corner of 14th St and 3rd Ave? The bodega is moving down the block and the other businesses in the building have closed. DOB website says it's going to be an 18 floor residential building, shocking I know, |
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| Jolie-Pitts Plunking Down Big Money for Waldorf Digs |
| Published: October 9, 2007, 11:15 am |
| Tags: Manhattan Midtown East Kips Bay, Real Estate For Rent, Real Estate Miscellany |
| Waldorf Astoria compound on East 50th Street. The price on the 6,000sf, five-bedroom spread? Oh, about $100,000/month. Keil is already speculating that Pitt's downtown style might not mesh with the building's dress code, but we're thinking that all the ambassadors' wives and mistresses holed up in the Towers probably won't be complaining. · |
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