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Midtown East Rezoning Plan Unanimously Approved After Revisions 

A rezoning plan for Midtown East was unanimously approved last Thursday following revisions, according to a report last week by Archpaper.com. The zoning plan...

After Subway Fire, MTA’s Lhota Blasts De Blasio’s Remarks as “Incendiary”

Comments by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio this week defending the right of New Yorkers to eat on the subway were criticized as...

Bklyn DA Forum Features Fireworks Between Candidates

The Criminal Justice Forum featuring the Brooklyn District Attorney candidates at St. Francis College last week featured fierce debate and a seemingly split audience...

Brooklyn BP Joins ‘Anti Semitic Bullying’ in Opposing Development

The Rabsky Group, a developer who been trying to rezone and redevelop 200 Harrison Avenue, can add Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams to its...

Port Authority Holding Off On Plans to Sell Red Hook Container Terminal

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will be putting plans to sell the Red Hook Container Terminal on hold due to...

Delays on Staten Island NY Wheel may be Devastating for EB-5 Investors

New York Wheel, the long awaited Staten Island attraction, faces yet another major impediment. Last week, the project’s developer fired its design and construction...

De Blasio: ‘New York Has Used the MTA as a Piggy Bank’

A ride on the F train on Sunday, July 23, was used by Mayor Bill de Blasio respond to Governor Andrew Cuomo and...

1K NYC School Bus Drivers Were Disciplined for Misbehavior in 2015

In 2015, just under 1,000 drivers and escorts of New York City school buses were fired or suspended for misbehaviors. Records show that this...

Lawyers Say Williamsburg Man Convicted in Student Assault was a ‘Scapegoat’

In December 2013, Taj Patterson, a gay African American fashion student, was assaulted by a group of 15-20 Hasidic Jews. The men chased Mr....

Bklyn’s Pavilion Theater Being  Used to Display Haiku Poems 

A haiku is a Japanese form of poetry composed of three distinct lines. The first and third lines of the poem must have 5...

Taxi King Freidman is Without 800 Medallions & a Law License

In New York City, taxi driving as a profession was at it’s peak--numerically--at the turn of the 1930’s, during the Great Depression.That is when...

Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Purchases $9M Beresford Unit

Bill Ackman, an American investor and hedge fund manager best known as the founder and CEO of the $10.8 billion hedge fund Pershing Square...

Entrepreneur Elon Musk Plans “Hyperloop” From NY to Washington

Elon Musk, the billionaire innovator and entrepreneur known for the SpaceX program, Paypal, and others, claimed Thursday to  have received “verbal” permission from the...

Sprint Opens Mock Verizon Shop Called “Twice the Price” in Queens  

Sprint set up a store mocking Verizon’s prices by calling itself Twice the Price.  A video, which the company is calling a “promo...

JetBlue Seeks Partners  to Build New JFK Terminal

Investors and developers are being sought out by JetBlue Airways Corp. to assist in the construction of a new Terminal 6 at John F....

Brooklyn Investment-Sales  Market Struggles in 2017

The Brooklyn investment-sales market wasn’t at its best during the first half of 2017. According to an Ariel Property Advisers report cited by the...

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