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Bloomberg Noticeably Silent on Stuyvesant Town Sale

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Tenants rallied outside Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village chanting “Where’s Mike?” So far Mayor Bloomberg has refused to weigh in on the sale of one of Manhattan’s largest affordable housing complexes.
About two-thirds of the 11,200 units […]

Brooklyn Real Estate Boom Powers Up: City Putting Park Slope School on the Market

Trying to take advantage of Brooklyn’s current real estate boom, NYC is shopping out a plan to that would allow developers to build on their land in exchange for building the new William Butler School.
In exchange for the right to build in the heart of Park Slope, the highest-bidding developer would be responsible for […]

Find Out if You’re Getting Shafted on Your Rent

Rentometer is a pretty cool utility where you can enter your address, how many bedrooms etc., and find out how much you’re getting screwed on your rent compared to other property listings in your neighborhood.
The ‘Top10′ Link lists the 10 most expensive zip codes in the country for rental properties. NYC’s 10007 tops […]

Google Opens NYC Office, Caters to Vegetarian Hippies

Yesterday was the first official day at the new NYC offices of Google.
The company has three floors in a building that stretches from Eighth Avenue to Ninth Avenue and from 15th Street to 16th Street, a few blocks west of Union Square. The workspace is light and airy and built around the concept of […]

Maggie Gyllenhaal and fiancé Peter Sarsgaard are Moving to Park Slope

It’s official, the expecting celebrity couple Maggie Gyllenhaal and fiancé Peter Sarsgaard have signed on the dotted line to become the newest celebrity couple [read: white people] to move to Park Slope.
In what has to be the most unique pairing of two people with adjoining “a’s” in their last names the Haal/Gaard’s have […]

Little Pink Houses for You and Me

Park Slope gentrifites up in arms about their ticky-tacky houses no longer being singularly conformed.
Bernie Henry, 90, said he doesn’t understand why his neighbors are upset. He first slathered on the glossy pink in 1968 - five years before the city designated the area a historic district. He said the current hue on his […]

Government Employees Not So Gung Ho About Working in the Freedom Tower

In order to bulk up prospective clients and help out poor Larry Silverstein, government agencies are signing on as some of the first tenants of the new Freedom Tower. Unfortunately, the employees for said government agencies are all pretty much like, “say what?”
“I will not be able to work there,” said Ely […]

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