In June, New York’s 421-a tax abatement program is up for renewal, and many on City Council want it either eliminated entirely or seriously overhauled. The program, as currently structured, relieves owners of newly built rental buildings or condos…
On Saturday, the heads of a vast swath of agencies met to announce some details of the de Blasio’s administration first rezoning, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York. Beyond rezoning and encouraging new construction –…
The “days since a New York state legislator has been indicted” clock was reset to zero yesterday, as Sheldon Silver, the powerful Democratic state assembly speaker, was taken away in handcuffs. It has yet to…
In 2010, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced the cancellation of the Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) tunnel, which would have built two new commuter rail tracks beneath the Hudson River between New Jersey…
In 2015, we don’t expect any sea changes in the New York City real estate industry. We aren’t going to see Flushing become the next Williamsburg, as some are predicting, or masses of white kids…
