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January 1, 2010
Curbed Awards '09 Neighborhoods: NIMBYs, Rants And More!
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Threatened Neighborhood Landmarks That Are Somehow Still Standing
4) World's Fair Pavilion, Queens. Seriously, how is that thing still standing?
3) Holiday Cocktail Lounge, East Village. Its 90-ish year old owner and bartender sadly passed, but somehow a second Chipotle on St. Mark's Place was avoided, for now.
2) St. Vincent's Hospital O'Toole Building, West Village. Christopher Hitchens writes, "Go and have a look while you can, because it is again menaced with demolition, along with perhaps a cluster of other West Village buildings, in order to make room for a monstrous alteration to Seventh Avenue, at just the point where the greatest number of quirky and individual streets converge." What he said.
1) Daniel Goldstein's Apartment Building, Atlantic Yards Footprint. The dude abides.
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More 2009 retrospecti...
The Real Deal, The Real Deal's best of 2009
Top 10 biggest New York City real estate stories of the year
Here are The Real Deal staff's picks for the stories that most altered the New York City real estate landscape in 2009, in alphabetical order.
Atlantic Yards
After six years of legal battles, the New York Court of Appeals last month cleared the way for developer Bruce Ratner to move forward with plans for his $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards project, dismissing opponents' claims that the state had misused eminent domain laws to secure land for the development. (That's after a design by Frank don't-call-me-starchitect Gehry was removed from the plans.) Ratner announced this month that he had officially closed on the project, and then construction began. A bevy of eminent domain protests by locals ensued, including one at Freddy's Bar on Dean Street that involved the guillotining of a faceless body emblazoned with the words "eminent domain theft."
YourNabe.com, Reeling in the year that was 2009
February
Winter’s chill brought a frigid rebuke to those hoping to stymie the Atlantic Yards project, when a New York appellate panel rejected a lawsuit that charged that the Empire State Development Corp.’s environmental review of the site was inadequate.
...December
Brooklynites were in a litigious mood this month, as Coney Island ride advocates sued the city regarding its development of the seaside amusement park. The same week, the city sued itself over the reopening of the Brooklyn House of Detention. Some lawsuits, such as the developer Bruce Ratner’s right to develop Atlantic Yards, were dismissed, while others, including TransGas Energy’s right to build a power plant on the Williamsburg waterfront, remain subject to appeal.
Posted by eric at January 1, 2010 3:38 PM