Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Al Gore: Destined to Climb Into Harlem's Box

  Published: September 21, 2007, 2:20 pm

  Tags: Commercial Real Estate, Manhattan Harlem Morningside Heights

  Yesterday, Crain's reported that Al Gore's investment firm is on the hunt for office space in Manhattan. Of course, it's not a simple search:Not surprisingly, there are some considerations that go beyond the rental rate. Generation Investment Management insists that the space must meet standards for energy efficiency and environmental friendliness

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• Celebrity Real Estate Wrap: Rosie! Tiki! Roger?

  Published: September 24, 2007, 9:12 am

  Tags: Manhattan Chelsea, Manhattan Harlem Morningside Heights, Manhattan Midtown West Times Square, Manhattan Upper East Side, Real Estate Sold

  1) Rosie O'Donnell is giving her regards to Broadway. The Nyack resident just scooped up a pied-a-terre in the Platinum, the new building on 46th Street near Eighth Avenue with the creepy website. She wanted a place in the Theater District on a high floor, and that's what she got with this 22nd-floor two-bedroom spot, which cost her nearly $2

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• Revealed: Harlem's W Condo-Hotel in All its Terrifying Glory

  Published: September 24, 2007, 4:55 pm

  Tags: Architecture, Hotels, Manhattan Harlem Morningside Heights, Real Estate Development, Top

  Harlem, buckle up, this one may hurt a little. The above rendering popped up on a real estate developer's website and was passed on by a tipster. The site is Frederick Douglas Boulevard and 124th Street, long rumored to become a new hotel in Starwood's empire. Indeed, the description pegs it as an Aloft condo-hotel, part of the W brand, but

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• Rumblings & Bumblings: Henry Street Hijinx, Harlem Huh?

  Published: September 25, 2007, 2:20 pm

  Tags: Manhattan Harlem Morningside Heights, Manhattan Hell S Kitchen Clinton, Manhattan Lower East Side, Manhattan Midtown West Times Square, Rumblings Bumblings

  1) Lower East Side: A reader sends in the pic at right and asks: "For what I figure are several rather obvious reasons, most of the new buildings that go up in Chinatown/LES and are suddenly and mysteriously totally occupied by Chinese speaking folks (oh what the hell, Chinese people) rarely make headlines or even tiplines on NYC real estate

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• West Harlem Rezone to Appease Columbia Foes?

  Published: September 26, 2007, 10:11 am

  Tags: Manhattan Harlem Morningside Heights, Real Estate Miscellany, Urban Planning

  [Manhattanville photo via The Manhattan Institute] Now that the Upper West Side business is taken care of, the City Council's next big downzoning proposal deals with Manhattanville, the area of West Harlem where Columbia University is looking to build a 17-acre expansion. A point of contention is that the mostly low-rise and industrial area

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• Columbia's Manhattanville Project Getting Closer

  Published: September 27, 2007, 9:12 am

  Tags: Manhattan Harlem Morningside Heights, Real Estate Development, Urban Planning

  Columbia prez Lee Bollinger has had some week! After that whole politics business, he finally got back to the chief topic at hand for the school: Columbia's invasion and occupation of West Harlem. At a press conference, Bollinger announced a deal with Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer on the 17-acre expansion plan, which calls on Columbia

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• Columbia's Manhattanville Project React-o-Matic

  Published: September 27, 2007, 10:36 am

  Tags: Manhattan Harlem Morningside Heights, Real Estate Development, Urban Planning

  Earlier we spoke about Columbia's pledge to fund affordable housing and public projects in Manhattanville, a deal that appears to bring the school closer to its planned 17-acre expansion in the West 120s and 130s. In light of this development, the reactions are pouring out. Here's a smattering of opinions: 1) "The area has been better in recent

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• Old School Harlem Development

  Published: September 27, 2007, 12:50 pm

  Tags: Manhattan Harlem Morningside Heights, Quicklink, Real Estate Miscellany

  A historic video on the development of Lenox Terrace in 1958 offers up "a great throwback of Swingin' Harlem" and shows how they used to do it uptown. Starring Robert Moses, developer Robert S. Olnick and others. [Harlem 26.2]

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• Rumblings & Bumblings Responses: High on Henry, Harlem Renovation, More

  Published: September 27, 2007, 3:43 pm

  Tags: Manhattan Harlem Morningside Heights, Manhattan Lower East Side, Manhattan Midtown West Times Square, Rumblings Bumblings

  1) Lower East Side: The Henry Street frame job (right) a rumbler was asking about has DOB approval to become an 8-story extention of 152 Henry, per a tipster. Also, this comment was pretty funny: "Just because we work together to defeat you on the real estate front by advertising strictly in Chinese language newspapers, dont be mad with us & give

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• Development Du Jour: Delany Lofts

  Published: October 2, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Manhattan Harlem Morningside Heights, Real Estate Development

  Location: 237 and 247 West 115th Street btwn Frederick Douglass/Seventh Size: 36 combined units in two new 7-story buildings Prices: $420,000-$1,000,000 Developer: POKO Partners Sales & Marketing: Warburg Lowdown: We've laid off the Harlem renderings for a while because nothing could possibly compare to the shock and awe of the Aloft, but

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• Harlem vs. Park Slope: 'Best Street' vs. 'Best Neighborhood'

  Published: October 2, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Brooklyn Park Slope, City Life, Manhattan Harlem Morningside Heights

  This was going to be about how everyone should brace for Park Slope ego because it's been chosen one of the country's "Ten Best Neighborhoods." Then, we noticed that 125th Street in Harlem was picked as one of the nation's "Great Streets." The entity behind the best-ing is the American Planning Association. According to today's Daily News, 125th

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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

  [Photo via Newell 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

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• Jackson Heights: The Musical! Wait, That Sounds Familiar…

  Published: October 9, 2007, 4:02 pm

  Tags: Neighborhood Watch, Cobble Hill, Elmhurst, Hell S Kitchen, Jackson Heights, Morningside Heights, Upper East Side, Williamsburg

  via Chelsea Now] Jackson Heights: Stay tuned for Jackson Heights: The Musical! Hey, wait a minute, that Washington Heights show hasn't even opened on Broadway yet! [Queens Crap via NYDN] Morningside Heights: Creatures including a camel, two llamas, some goats, a Chinese goose, a fourteen-pound rabbit, a porcupine, and a hermit crab paraded

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• Harlem 'Losing Its Identity' to Gentrification?

  Published: October 9, 2007, 10:05 am

  Tags: City Life, Manhattan Harlem Morningside Heights

  This morning, amNY ventures into Harlem to take a look at businesses being forced out by increasing rents and gentrification, and suggests the neighborhood is "losing its identity." It appends a "?" mark, but residents and business owners leave no doubt about their opinions. One says the neighborhood's character is "being decimated, just lost in

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• Is Harlem's Kalahari the Ugliest New Condo Building?

  Published: October 11, 2007, 9:42 am

  Tags: Architecture, Manhattan Harlem Morningside Heights, Manhattan Upper East Side, Real Estate Development

  Time Out New York's new issue is all about Sights & Blights, and they pick out the best and worst of the city's architecture (Chrysler Building good, Port Authority bad), green spaces, storefronts, streets and much more. One category is new condo buildings, and TONY gives high praise to the Upper East Side deathmatch participant The Lucida, and

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