Rybak Development plans to demolish 248 E. 62nd St. (above) and turn it into an 20-story luxury tower. ( Photo: Google Maps ) Coney Island Developer Pursues Luxury Tower in Lenox Hill A Coney Island-based developer is pursuing bold plans to transform a modest three-story townhouse on East 62nd Street, which... News 17 Nov 2025 | 04:35
The pit after Vornado tore down the Hotel Pennsylvania. ( Photo: Michael Oreskes ) Vornado Realty Proposes Luxury Tower for Hotel Pennylvania Site Neighborhood leaders want to put a park there. A bidder to rebuild Penn Station wants to move Madison Square Garden there.... News 10 Nov 2025 | 11:30
Tory Burch in 2009. An LLC connected to her is spearheading a lawsuit against the board of the Pierre co-op. ( Photo: Wikimedia Commons ) Pierre Residents Facing Eviction Sue Co-op Hotel Over Proposed Sale A group of residents of the Pierre, the upscale Fifth Avenue residential hotel, are suing the hotel’s board for pursuing... News 07 Nov 2025 | 10:03
The Elizabeth Street Garden in the summer of 2025. ( Photo: Marie Pohl) Elizabeth Street Garden Faces Death, Again: This Time by Mamdani In another break with his rivals, Zohran Mamdani said he intends to evict the beloved Elizabeth Street Garden from a city-owned... Home 01 Nov 2025 | 10:57
JPMorganChase headquarters at 270 Park Ave. looking northwesterly. ( Photo: JPMorganChase) Finance Giant JPMorganChase Opens Stunning New Park Avenue HQ Shout it loud and proud, New Yorkers, JPMorganChase did it, officially opening their stunning new headquarters at 270 Park... News 26 Oct 2025 | 10:05
A luxury Fifth Avenue development pursued by former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer’s company will now be one story taller, thanks to the “City of Yes” zoning overhaul. ( Photo: Spitzer Enterprises ) CB8 Impressed by Eliot Spitzer’s Now-Taller 5th Avenue Project Former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer’s family development company, Spitzer Enterprises, is revising a longstanding demolish-and-rebuild... News 21 Oct 2025 | 07:46
The Catholic Archdiocese of New York sold its headquarters for $103 million to the Vanbarton Group, which plans to do an office-to-residential conversion that will contain over 400 units, including 25 percent that will be affordable housing. ( Photo: Wikimedia Commons ) Developer That Bought Catholic Archdiocese HQ Is Latest in Growing Office-to-Housing Trend Vanbarton Group paid $103 million to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York for its HQ building at 1011 First Ave., financed... News 18 Sep 2025 | 02:19
A landmarked building at 51-53 E. 73rd St., long plagued by celebrity-related rumors, may be converted into a single-family mansion. ( Photo: Friends of the Upper East Side ) Multi-Unit UES Mansion May Become Single-Family Home A landmarked mega-mansion at 51-53 E. 73rd St., which currently hosts 13 residential apartments and five office spaces, may... News 15 Sep 2025 | 05:50
The landmarked church building on Sixth Avenue at 20th Street is for sale or lease once again. In the 1980s and ’90s it housed the Limelight, the infamous epicenter of the party club scene. The building was last an Episcopal church in the late 1970s. ( Photo: Keith J. Kelly) Church Bldg.That Once Housed Limelight Nightclub Is For Sale At its inception in 1852, the Gothic revival building in Chelsea housed the Church of the Holy Communion, but from the early... News 19 Aug 2025 | 06:47
Maya Haddad (left) is helping with a countersuit against banks filed by Ping “Penny” Cheung (right), a native of Guangzhou, China, who is fighting to hold on to her two Chinatown buildings. ( Photo: Maya Haddad) Owner Battles Banks Trying to Foreclose on Her 2 Chinatown Buildings Ping Cheung, known as Penny to her friends and neighbors, is a Chinatown resident and proprietor. She grew up in Guangzhou,... News 11 Jul 2025 | 08:44
Left: Rendering for proposed 20-story residential tower; Right: recent site clearance began at 252–258 Third Ave. ( Photos: Roman and Williams; Keith J. Kelly) Brownfield Site Near Gramercy Park to Become 20-Story Lux Condo A site that is steps away from historic Gramercy Park must undergo a brownfield cleanup before a developer can build a 20-story... Home 07 Jul 2025 | 05:31
Another diagram of Extell’s proposed 90-story tower. Extell’s 1,200-Foot-Tower Plan on W. 66th St. a New Flashpoint In recent weeks, plans have been publicized, revealing a proposed supertall residential skyscraper at 77 W. 66th St. The... News 07 Jul 2025 | 04:13
Eric Yu leads a rally against a proposed 320 Pearl St. homeless shelter, seen in inset. ( Photos: Nancy Yu, Brian Berger (inset)) Opposition Grows to Proposed Pearl Street Homeless Shelter Call it the Battle of Peck Slip and Pearl Street, or the People versus Big Homeless. The proposed opening of a “low barrier”... 23 Jun 2025 | 11:55
Extell Development has filed plans to demolish a series of lots on East 60th Street, which happen to contain the restaurants Philippe Chow (left) and Il Mulino (right). ( Photo: Jack Ahern/Google Images ) Two E. 60th St. Restaurants May Disappear; Developer Wants to Demolish Their Buildings Two neighborhood restaurants, Philippe Chow and Il Mulino, could be facing the wrecking ball after a real estate developer... Home 11 Mar 2025 | 01:24
Seventh-floor landing at 108 Greenwich St., home to TemptationsNYC and other businesses. ( Photo: Brian Berger) City Accuses FiDi Sex Club of Prostitution but Building Home to Other Mysteries Too If they don’t catch you coming, they might catch you going. This was the “clever” lead a reporter thought of when he heard... News 04 Mar 2025 | 03:48
