Month: December 2007
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421-a Changes Will Slow Condo Sales
Duh. But – expect another mad flurry of foundation pouring between now and June, as developers race to get grandfathered under the old (and far more lucrative) rules. Then we’ll see if the new rules result in an upsurge of affordable housing or a downward adjustment on new condo prices. Being a pessimist, I’d bet…
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Triangulum 100% Leased!
I suppose this is good news for the developer, but I fail to see why leasing out a rental building on the southside deserves its own press release.
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Looking for Love
Thanks to Google’s annual zetgeist report on search trends, we now know that there are a lot more people out there looking for love than looking for love. (And that a lot of them finding love, judging by the “How to…” graph!)
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Congestion Pricing DOA?
To be taken with a grain of salt, in that it comes from Newsday, which writes for Long Island commuters. If true, this would be a huge setback for smart planning in NYC. And once again, its the out of city pols who are killing us. I know there’s a lot of outer borough hatred…
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Commerce Bank on Bedford
This is old news, but the Star has an update on the status of the proposed Commerce Bank project at North 4th and Bedford. Short take: the Community Board isn’t willing to support a bad design (and this is a really bad design), particularly one that doesn’t provide the types of affordable housing the neighborhood…
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DOB and the Scarano plea deal
DOB is now saying that the deal they reached with architect Robert Scarano “had no practical impact whatsoever” on any State charges that might be leveled against the architect. Maybe so, but the deal does nothing to counter the notion that DOB (or at least the Brooklyn office) exists to protect developers, contractors and architects,…