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Category Archives: Neighborhoods
Welcome Mermaid Inn to the Upper West Side
I don’t typically blog about restaurants but thanks to my wife’s awesome job at Food and Wine Magazine I often get the chance to preview a place before the rest of the public. It’s not often that I feel compelled … Continue reading
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True Gotham Redux
I’m off to the Dominican republic today for a much needed vacation with the family. I’ll be back blogging on Monday, April 2nd but today and all of next week, I will rerun some of True Gotham’s most popular/controversial posts. … Continue reading
New Residential Construction Projects
Check out this month’s list of new residential construction (via the Real Deal). if you follow the links at the bottom of their page, you can also see previous month’s projects. An excellent resource!
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Neighborhoods: The Lower East Side
In the early 1990s I was an NYU student living in the East Village. I went to see a friend’s band play in a basement club. Before the show, the club held a poetry reading, which consisted almost entirely of … Continue reading
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Neighborhoods: The West Village
In New York City and elsewhere, at least over the last few decades, a certain pattern has emerged. GLBT men and women (often those who have fled other parts of the world where they have felt less welcome) arrive in … Continue reading
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Neighborhoods: Tribeca
Here’s a funny thing about architecture: Tribeca is highly prized as a residential community, in large part because the buildings weren’t designed to be residential. The appeal is in the industrial warehouse feel: those high ceilings, big open spaces, loading … Continue reading
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Neighborhoods: The Upper West Side
This week on TrueGotham, we’re going to be talking about some of my favorite New York City neighborhoods, starting with the one where I live: the Upper West Side. To me, at this juncture of history, this is one of … Continue reading
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It Often Gets Ugly at the Top
In an incredible attempt to thwart the upcoming closing of the largest sale in history, Stuy Town/Peter Cooper Village for $5.5 billion, the law firm of Trautman Saunders—no surprise that they represent the tenants who attempted to buy the complex … Continue reading
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Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village: The Next Chapter
Curbed has an incredible collection of news about the big sale. What you learn from all that is that no one knows all that much about what’s going to happen. Here are some basics about the private new owner, Jerry … Continue reading
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Five Flights Up: Cleaning Up Hell’s Kitchen
Toni Schlesinger’s book Five Flights Up has a lot of good Manhattan real estate stories. Freelance photographer Keith Rizza talks about Hell’s Kitchen in a 1999 interview: Actually, five years ago I saw an apartment in this same building through … Continue reading
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