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!
NEW ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS AFTER SANDY
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on October 12th, 2013 As we approach the one year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, as well as the second-costliest hurricane in United States history that killed 73 people and cost New York around $42 billion. ($65 billion in total US damages),… [Read More]
NORMAN FOSTER’S 551 WEST 21ST STREET/150 ELEVENTH AVENUE ARRIVES
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on September 25th, 2013 Mega-architect Norman Foster and developer Scott Resnick’s new building at the corner of Eleventh Avenue and 21st Street in West Chelsea has come to market, now known as 551 West 21st Street. The 250ft tower across from Chelsea Piers and the Hudson River Park with its gracious… [Read More]
SHVO TAKES TO THE STREETS – IS BILLION DOLLAR LISTING NEXT?
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on September 18th, 2013 Michael Shvo was spotted tonight at the LUKOIL/GETTY site on Tenth Avenue and West 24th Street (West Chelsea’s most storied block) armed with 2 security guards (is someone after Michael?) chatting up passers by observing the art installation featuring fences (Shvences?), sheep (Shveep?) and a lawn (shvlawn?)that… [Read More]
WEST CHELSEA TO BE ELEVATED BY FOUR FEET
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on September 14th, 2013 As we approach the anniversary of the catastrophic storm Hurricane Sandy, the DOB has passed a new building and zoning code for buildings exposed to the flood zone……the code requires a building in West Chelsea to be elevated by four feet above street level. Already developers, architects… [Read More]
PETER MARINO PARTNERS UP WITH SHVO IN WEST CHELSEA
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on September 9th, 2013 I have heard that leather-bound uber-interior designer Peter Marino has been hired by Michael Shvo (for many millions!)to design the building on the corner of West 24th Street and Tenth Avenue (this has to be the hottest block anywhere!), once home to the Getty gas station, and… [Read More]
THE SHVLAWN COMES TO WEST CHELSEA
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on September 9th, 2013 The Shvo SHVEDGE on West Chelsea’s uber-block on West 24th street has come down to reveal a fence and lawn….or SHVLAWN! What’s next? And how much more money will be spent on marketing even before this building is designed?
THE SHVEDGE
Posted on August 15th, 2013 Michael Shvo’s controvercial site (with VICTOR HOMES) for a new condominium in West Chelsea at the corner of Tenth Avenue and West 24th Street has produced a new “first” already (although some may argue that its ‘first’ is being the most-over-paid-for site): THE SHVEDGE….a bank of evergreens forming a hedge that… [Read More]
TARGET COMING TO WEST CHELSEA!
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on August 13th, 2013 Great news for West Chelsea and New York: Super-cool big-box retailer TARGET is coming to 25th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues. A new concept store will be housed next to super-cool car manufacter TESLA. I guess that makes West Chelsea even more cool than a few… [Read More]
SHVO NO: ANOTHER GAS STATION SHUTS DOWN IN MANHATTAN!
Posted by Leonard Steinberg on August 12th, 2013 The Getty/Lukoil gas station at the corner of Tenth Avenue and 24th street is no more: sad-faced cab drivers were seen driving away from the site that for decades had been a re-fueling stop as the building prepares itself to be demolished to make way for Michael… [Read More]