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- On Politics: Sunnyside Yard could become Mamdani's LaGuardia momentOf all of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s grand aims, few might be more challenging — and more ambitious — than his sudden bid to revive the Sunnyside Yard housing development in Queens.Mamdani didn’t campaign explicitly on Sunnyside Yard, though he talked often about building more housing. Last week, he jetted to the White House to meet […]
- Historic Fifth Avenue building heads to foreclosure auction TuesdayThe McKim Mead & White-designed building at 681 Fifth Ave. boasts a noble pedigree and a superb location. It may also have a new owner after it is sold at a foreclosure auction Tuesday.Tough times befell this handsome building on the city’s most luxurious shopping strip because it had too much debt and too few […]
- Mamdani names new head of Small Business ServicesMayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday appointed a longtime tenant and immigrant advocate and consumer protection official to lead the city's Department of Small Business Services.Kenny Minaya, currently first deputy commissioner at the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, will take over the roughly 300-person agency, which has a stated mission of helping small businesses start […]
- Historic blizzard can't cool Manhattan's luxury market as February contracts surgeEven one of the biggest blizzards in the city's history couldn't stop Manhattan's luxury real estate market.Buyers scooped up 32 high-end condos, co-ops and townhouses last week, just days after a historic winter storm dropped nearly 20 inches of snow in Central Park, nine more than the previous week.Last month,123 contracts totalling $1.4 billion were […]
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