Daffodil Project Ditched
By Lois Weiss It’s official – this year’s Daffodil Project has been quarantined and another annual September 11 tradition is being abandoned to the…
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Byzantine Zoning History of 200 Amsterdam
Webb & Knapp eventually sold the rental project to the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa). To protest rent hikes, residents began hanging bed sheets out the windows. In late 1966, a judge ordered tenants to take down the sheets, and in a nod to Alcoa, not display “aluminum foil or any other offensive or inappropriate items.”
Homeless families to be matched with affordable apartments under NYC program
Homeless New Yorkers are poised to hit the jackpot in the affordable-housing lottery without even entering, thanks to a new de Blasio administration initiative. After Feb. 14, City Hall will...
Many top Dems, ‘pressured by Left,’ no-show major real estate dinner
It was more telling who didn’t attend the Real Estate Board of New York’s annual banquet last week. A slew of powerful Democratic politicians — from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and...
Greek magnate refuses to pay Manhattan socialite wife’s $2.3M IRS debt
The socialite wife of 90-year-old Greek shipping magnate Spiros Milonas owes the Internal Revenue Service a whopping $2.27 million — and her estranged husband is refusing to pay her seven-figure...
IRS hits East Harlem daycare owner with $6M bill for unpaid income taxes
City records show the IRS filed the massive bill with the city Department of Finance on July 31 against Mariana Conforme, a 64-year-old Ecuadorian immigrant who lives in the Jefferson...
Quad Prep School opening new location
A downtown school is expanding to another location. This fall, the Quad Preparatory School will open a program for its middle and high school students at 19 Cedar St. The...
De Blasio commission will weigh property tax reform again
It’s a big, thankless task, but somebody’s got to try to do it — again. The Mayor’s new Advisory Commission on Property Tax Reform met for the first time last...
Cuomo had the MTA waste $30M on tunnel vanity project
Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered the cash-strapped MTA to waste as much as $30 million on his latest vanity project — retiling two city tunnels in the state’s blue-and-gold color scheme...
Why Washington Square Park is still riddled with drug addicts
Ever wonder why Bryant Park and Union Square are junkie-free but not always Washington Square Park? That’s because New York University, which owns most of the buildings surrounding the park,...