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…
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…
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...