Thursday, July 30, 2015
Walker’s Philadelphia cheesesteak mockery
Several Philly tourists not amused with Scott Walker crashing their lunch. Overheard: “Stand in line with the rest of us.” “Who is that?” — Jenna Johnson (@wpjenna) July 28, 2015 This is silly but sometimes you just gotta stop, smell the roses, and indulge in some mockery of Scott Walker’s cheesesteak choices. It’s the standard more »
Soho House doubles Chelsea office space
From left: 513-519 West 20th Street and roof of Soho House at 29 Ninth Avenue (inset: Jim Gross and Justin DiMare)
Soho House signed a 10-year lease to renew – and double – its Chelsea office space near the High Line, The Real Deal has learned. (more…)
Walker’s Philadelphia cheesesteak mockery
Several Philly tourists not amused with Scott Walker crashing their lunch. Overheard: “Stand in line with the rest of us.” “Who is that?” — Jenna Johnson (@wpjenna) July 28, 2015 This is silly but sometimes you just gotta stop, smell the roses, and indulge in some mockery of Scott Walker’s cheesesteak choices. It’s the standard more »
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
WI Supreme Court “went well beyond what any court has ever held in opening the floodgates to secret money in politics”
Brendan Fischer of PRWatch was recently interviewed by Janine Jackson of Fair.org. A couple of exerpts: JJ: Well, it sounds as though the charge was that Walker actively sought to skirt finance laws and that the ruling is: Yes, he did, but it’s OK? I mean, help us to understand exactly what happened here. BF: That’s about right. more »
RedSky zeroing in on DoBro site with 330K sf
567-569 and 585-587 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn (inset: Ben Bernstein)
After more than two years of dealmaking, RedSky Capital is one transaction away from assembling a nine-building Downtown Brooklyn development site offering 330,000 buildable square feet. (more…)
Can One Vanderbilt be a Midtown East catalyst?
From left: Dana L. Moskowitz, A. Mitti Liebersohn and Seth Pinsky
From the July issue: Manhattan office vacancies are low and prices keep rising. But while the fast-growing technology and media sectors colonize Midtown South, and new construction at the World Trade Center and Hudson Yards draws major corporations to Downtown and Midtown West, one traditional office center is lagging. [more]
Holy Ghost! musician buys Williamsburg building for $2.6M
161 Manhattan Avenue in Williamsburg (inset: From left, Nick Millhiser and Alex Frankel)
One half of the Brooklyn-based synthpop duo Holy Ghost! picked up a three-story Williamsburg apartment building for $2.6 million, according to property records filed with the city on Monday. (more…)
The Donald may have reviewed controversial construction contract at Trump Soho
Donald Trump and the Trump Soho at 246 Spring Street
Donald Trump may have been more involved in the 2008 death of a construction worker at the Sapir Organization’s Trump Soho hotel than he originally let on. (more…)
Monday, July 27, 2015
Republican presidential candidates cluster accounts at bank with only 1 branch in McLean, Virginia
Hmmmmm. From Bloomberg: “According to the most recent Federal Election Commission filings, Chain Bridge is the sole bank serving Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign, which reported raising $11.4 million as of June 30, and his allied super-PAC, Right to Rise, which says it’s raised $103 million so far. Donald Trump’s campaign banks at Chain Bridge, and it’s more »
Late landlord’s daughters to be rewarded for marriage, babies born in wedlock
From left: Victoria, Marlena and Ewa Laboz (source: Instagram)
With great wealth comes great responsibility — and sometimes, great power-tripping. (more…)
Sunday, July 26, 2015
Trump nails Walker on crumbling roads, deficit, underfunded education, Common Core flip-flops
Times are strange when you’re pleased to hear from Donald Trump, eh? What’s really wild is not only do I enjoy hearing Trump slam Walker, I have to admit that Trump is essentially telling the truth about the state of affairs in Wisconsin and about Walker’s flip-flops on Common Core. Donald Trump says he wasn’t more »
Wisconsinite dissents in chalk: “WEASEL WHORE HOUSE”
The dissent: The chalker, who prefers to remain anonymous, gave me permission to upload this photo here. If you have questions about the use of the word “whore” in Wisconsin see this. You just finished reading Wisconsinite dissents in chalk: "WEASEL WHORE HOUSE"! Consider leaving a comment!Visit bluecheddar.net for more news and opinion. You can more »
Saturday, July 25, 2015
“Scott Walker is not Joe McCarthy, but his technique is similar”
This is a bit from an opinion piece by Dana Milbank in the Washington Post: “Scott Walker is not Joe McCarthy, but his technique is similar: He suggests that the nation’s ills can be cured by fighting labor unions (foremost among the “big government special interests” hurting America), even though unions represent just 11 percent more »
Friday, July 24, 2015
Happening now: Real estate crowdfunding Twitter chat
Hop on Twitter and join The Real Deal‘s next #TRDChat, featuring a discussion on real estate crowdfunding. Tweet your questions to @KonradPutzier and @trdny using the #TRDchat. We’ll see you there! — TRD
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Related makes another Brooklyn play with $32M deal
Jeff Blau and 1865 Burnett Street in Marine Park
Related Companies continues to flex its muscles in the outer boroughs — it’s purchased a trio of multifamily buildings in Brooklyn’s Marine Park neighborhood for $32.2 million, according to property records filed with the city Wednesday.
The complex – at 3001 Avenue R, 3004 Avenue R and 1865 Burnett Street – houses two-story buildings containing 144 residential units across almost 107,000 square feet of space. (more…)
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
One of the shady recipients of Walker’s WEDC welfare faces criminal investigation (finally)
As blogger lufthase puts it, “If WEDC had done a simple search on Green Box chairman Ronald Van Den Heuvel before making this loan, they’d have found at least 8 six-figure judgements from 2008 to 2011 against him or the many, many companies he has registered at the same address as Green Box.” Basically, Scott more »
Greenport gets its groove on
Downtown Greenport
From the July issue: Heidi Kelso, a TV producer from Manhattan, opened her boutique Lido as a side business in Greenport in 2012.
Selling a mix of resort wear, jewelry and home furnishings, Kelso, a first-time retailer, kept the store open during the tourist season for the past three years. But the shop has done so well that in May, she moved across the street to 132 Main Street, a larger, 1,500-square-foot space once occupied by the kitchen accessories shop Cookery Dock. [more]
Look back at Donald Trump’s ’70s-era power-brokering
Young Donald Trump and the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on the West Side
Donald Trump has dominated headlines as the Republican party’s most reckless and entertaining 2016 presidential candidate. But even in 1979, the public was sufficiently interested in his persona to justify a three part series in the Village Voice, which the newspaper is republishing now.
The series documents Trump’s apparent leveraging of powerful family connections to the mayor and the governor to secure development rights to build the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. (more…)
Ranking the city’s largest new condo projects
From left: Renderings of 111 Murray Street (credit: KPF), 53 West 53rd Street (credit: Hayes Davidson) and 250 South Street (credit: CityRealty) (inset: Gary Barnett)
Gary Barnett’s plans for 250 South Street may have gone through several revisions, but one thing is for sure – the Two Bridges/Chinatown development is the city’s largest new condominium project of the past year, according to an analysis of data from the state attorney general’s office compiled by The Real Deal. (more…)
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
7 train’s 11th Avenue stop to open by mid-September
7 Train
After numerous delays, the opening of the 7 train’s new 11th Avenue stop is imminent, according to an MTA official.
“The work is basically, pretty much complete, and we are actually running the last tests and in compliance of inspections,” Michael Horodniceanu, president of MTA Capital Construction, told the New York Daily News. (more…)
Round-up of Wisco news: Walker puzzled by gayness, Walker v. G.A.B., 20 wk. abortion ban, MORE
These seem like the key WI political stories from the last 3 or 4 days. If I missed something, please do leave it in a comment. WALKER AND GAYNESS This is how conservative blog NewsMax frames it: Gay marriage opponent and Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker said in a CNN interview broadcast on Sunday he more »
Monday, July 20, 2015
“Governor Walker, why are you trying to break my family apart?” – Leslie Flores
Because a new poll shows that Donald Trump polls nationally at 24% among Republican registered voters while Walker polls 13% I have to admit that I have no idea whether Walker’s comments to this family have an impact positive or negative within the Republican Party base. This guy’s tweet sums up their bigoted wingnuttery: "Obama's more »
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Iowa is smelling the BS around Walker’s Kohls speech
Iowans are learning that Scott Walker doled out over $68 million to Kohls. It’s undermining his “brown bag government” schtick. Excellent! If they keep pulling at loose threads on his stories they’re going to turn up tales of unaccountable millions in corporate welfare he gave out through WEDC. Des Moines Register has the story: Some more »
Friday, July 17, 2015
Looks like my governor is cruisin’ through Iowa in a big gay RV
I sent this to George Takei Dear George: This is a photo of Scott Walker’s new RV. I must say, all I can see is an equal sign with those two red bars on the right. And when I see a red equal sign I am reminded of the red equal sign which you encouraged more »
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Appeal of John Doe decision to SCOTUS unlikely according to Hasen
This is from Hasen’s “Analysis of Wisconsin John Doe Ruling: Bad News for Campaign Finance Laws” U.S. Supreme Court review? The dissent notes that under the U.S. Supreme Court’s Caperton decision, the failure to recuse in this case could be a due process violation. At least theoretically, that’s an issue which could go to the more »
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Port Authority renews 60K sf lease near WTC site
111 and 115 Broadway in the Financial District
Though the Port Authority returned its headquarters to the World Trade Center complex earlier this year, it hasn’t entirely shed the other lease spaces it took following the September 11th attacks. (more…)
Monday, July 13, 2015
Isaac Chetrit, partner win bid for Midtown office building
From left: 315 West 35th Street, Stephen Meister and J.D. Parker
Isaac Chetrit and Jacob Aini won a bid Monday to buy a 14-story Midtown office building for $43 million at a bankruptcy auction, The Real Deal has learned. (more…)
See what your favorite MLB All-Star could afford in NYC
The salaries of the highest-paid MLB All-Stars and what they could buy in NYC (credit: CityRealty)
It’s no secret that professional baseball players are among the most handsomely paid in sports – just ask the Yankees how they feel about CC Sabathia’s contract. (more…)
Rush R40 Live tour Salt Lake City open thread
UPDATE - 7/13@8:28PM: The show should be getting started in a little over an hour from now. We're expecting setlist A but I'll let everyone know if anything changes. Hello SLC!!
Show Number: 26
Venue: Maverik Center
Place: Salt Lake City, UT
Twitter: #R40SLC | #R40Live
Instagram: #R40SLC
YouTube: Salt Lake City Rush R40 Live Tour
Setlist: Version A ???
Saturday, July 11, 2015
Inside a redesigned Plaza maisonette
No. 201 at 1 Central Park South
A two-level maisonette at the Plaza has sold for $17.2 million in cash. It was the most expensive closed sale of the week. And here is a look inside. (more…)
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