Monthly Archives: March 2018

Long-awaited Downtown Brooklyn park faces an uncertain fate

Mar 27, 2018 |

The EDC is it odds with a developer over a one-acre park and automated parking garage planned for the neighborhood The largest neighborhood improvement that Downtown Brooklyn residents were promised as part of the area’s 2004 rezoning is still far off. Crain’s looked into the state of Willoughby Square Park, the roughly one-acre green space […more]

An art auction in Jersey City is selling a fake ‘Naked Trump’ statue for up to $30K

Mar 27, 2018 |

One of the original statues on display in San Francisco via torbakhopper’s Flickr Fake news is always surrounding President Donald Trump and so is Stormy Daniels. Put those two together (fake & naked) and you’ve got the most recent news: an auction house based in California is selling a fake “Naked Trump” statue, unbeknownst to them. Reports […more]

St. Joseph’s Fallen Multi-Story Steel Crosses Now Lying in Pieces Alongside Building Lettering Next to Pierce Elevated

Mar 27, 2018 |

The massive illuminated crosses that once adorned the St. Joseph Professional Building next to the Pierce Elevated have been stripped from the structure’s east and west sides by its new-ish owner, but haven’t yet been removed from the block. West of the tower and adjacent to the highway, the fenced enclosure pictured above now holds […more]

A Housing Lottery for Buyers: Yorkville Condos Available From $356K

Mar 27, 2018 |

Together, the City of New York and local real estate developers have offered hundreds of affordable housing units for renters in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx. Now it’s buyers’ turn. Here’s a rare opportunity to win the chance to buy one of 21 brand-new Yorkville condos though the NYC Housing Partnership program. Prices for these […more]

Downtown’s historic glass sidewalks may become a lost relic

Mar 27, 2018 |

Vault lights in Soho, via WooJin Chung for 6sqft Last week, 6sqft outlined the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s series of new proposed rules, which “calls for more oversight by LPC staff but less time for public review” in proposals for alterations to historic buildings. But these rule changes extend further than buildings–right down to the sidewalks. As Treehugger first pointed out, […more]

Two-Bedroom on Third Fetches 5.7 Percent over Its Early 2015 Price

Mar 27, 2018 |

Purchased for $700,000 in April of 2015, the 1,016-square-foot Bayview condo #2414 at 5900 Third Street returned to the market priced at “$698,000” two months ago. The top Both medical buy cialis online appalachianmagazine.com forms have same ingredients in the same dosage as the respective brand name drug. The training programs and expeditiously created to […more]

Planned Upper West Side skyscraper abuses zoning rules, opponents allege (again)

Mar 27, 2018 |

The Board of Standards and Appeals will debate the zoning of 200 Amsterdam Avenue today Opponents of a 668-foot tower planned for the Upper West Side are hoping to end their fight against the condo on a technicality. The activist group Committee for Environmentally Sound Development, led by neighborhood preservationist group Landmark West!, has unearthed […more]

Boys of Spring! Amundsen baseball at Winnemac Park (Cubs field ribbon cutting soon!)

Mar 27, 2018 |

The improved infield and new backstops, dugouts make for a better home game experience. I stopped in Winnemac Park and watched an inning of Amundsen High School Baseball yesterday morning. Temps were barely 40 degrees at game time.  I’ve said it before that I will never forget the painful feeling of my hands during high […more]

Neighborhood Groups Call for Ouster of Landmarks Chair Srinivasan and a Halt to LPC Rule Changes

Mar 27, 2018 |

More than two dozen neighborhood groups have signed onto a letter calling for the replacement of the Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan and halting the proposed rules changes being considered in a public hearing at the Landmarks Preservation Commission today. The March You must be having a lot of difficulty in choosing the ideal shower water filter […more]

Case Shiller: Chicago Area Home Price Appreciation Still Lagging Nation

Mar 27, 2018 |

Dow Jones S&P CoreLogic just released the January Case Shiller Chicago area home price index along with the indices for 19 other major metro areas and the nation as a whole. As has been the case for several years now single family home prices have been up on a year over year basis across the […more]