Posted by Leonard Steinberg on January 16th, 2014 The new tax rolls came out and SHOCKINGLY the disparities are on clear display: you see, in New York City we are all unequal. Some get breaks and other have to pay for it. This is Mayor de Balsio’s TALE OF TWO CITIES, PART 2, the other… [Read More]
GOOGLE COMES HOME TO NEST
Posted on January 14th, 2014 Google is coming to your home ……Google has just acquired NEST, the maker of those super-sleek thermostats and smoke detectors, for $3,2billion. This isn’t Google’s first attempt at helping homeowners understand their energy use. A few years ago Google had an energy monitoring tool called “PowerMeter” designed to help consumers visualize their… [Read More]
COOPER SQUARE/ASTOR PLACE STREETSCAPE CHANGES DRAMATICALLY
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on January 11th, 2013 The streetscape around Astor Place and Cooper Square is in the process of being altered significantly: In the past few years, the architectural landscape has been revolutionized, most recently with the addition of 51 Astor Place, home to hi-tech including the IBM Watson Group. Other buildings added… [Read More]
LUXURY LESSONS FROM ROLLS ROYCE
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on January 10th, 2014 Rolls Royce Motorcars announced its highest-ever annual sales volume, delivering 3,630 cars in 2013 in its fourth consecutive record-breaking year. That makes Rolls-Royce the best-selling automaker in the world of cars that cost more than $250,000.00 and a brand all who make ultra-luxury products should watch closely:… [Read More]
MAYOR DE BLASIO: THE FIRST WEEK
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on January 8th, 2014 Mayor de Blasio has been in office now for just one week: many are already saying “I told you so!” after the rather divisive and disrespectful tone of his inauguration and the disappointing snow clean-up of Manhattan that was relegated to second priority after the outer boroughs, even though… [Read More]
WELCOME BACK TO CHELSEA’S EMPIRE DINER
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on January 8th, 2014 Chelsea’s Empire Diner is back in business! The West Chelsea classic located at 22nd Street and 10th Avnue has re-opened. Located at 210 10th Avenue it will serve ‘modernised diner food’……yay!
ANNIE LIEBOVITZ SELLS HER WEST VILLAGE TOWNHOUSE COMPOUND
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on January 8th, 2014 Annie Liebovitz, the famous Vanity Fair photographer extraordinaire has just sold her ivy-clad West Village townhouse compound for $28.5 million after it sat on the market for many, many months. The compound consists of three unconnected homes: her home is at 757 Greenwich Street, her office at 755… [Read More]
TALE OF TWO CITIES CONTINUES, ALTERED?
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on January 4th 2014 Did you notice during the snowstorm how poorly the streets in Manhattan had been plowed? Mayor de Blasio proudly exclaimed in a press conference that Queens and Brooklyn and the outer boroughs were the focus of City snow plows: is the TALE OF TWO CITIES that he so vehemently… [Read More]
WHY DO BILLIONAIRES AND OLIGARCHS BUY MANHATTAN APARTMENTS?
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on January 3rd, 2014 The subject of Russian oligarchs and Chinese billionaires buying $ 20m+ apartments has reached a fever pitch: many New Yorkers are OUTRAGED that we do not impose some form of punishment to these people for buying here. It is probably true that some of these buyers earned… [Read More]
IS AIR MORE VALUABLE THAN LAND IN NEW YORK CITY?
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on January 2nd, 2014 Has the air above a building become as valuable or even more valuable than the land it is built on? It appears so…. Transferable air rights have soared in price to $500 a square foot, making them worth more than the dirt below. Donald Trump made buying air… [Read More]