Years after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced reforms intended to cut down on purchasing costs, the famously high-spending agency has little to show for them, according to a new audit by the state comptroller. The “Transformation plan” approved by the MTA board in 2019 called for consolidating its procurement practices in hopes of slimming the […]
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For the beaten-down office market, 2024 was a year of diverging fortunes for owners as transactions started to pick up. Office landlords, confronted with the reality of plunging valuations, started to strike deals to sell properties they no longer wanted — often at steep price cuts — while scoring new equity investments on high-quality towers.
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For the beaten-down office market, 2024 was a year of diverging fortunes for owners as transactions started to pick up. Office landlords, confronted with the reality of plunging valuations, started to strike deals to sell properties they no longer wanted — often at steep price cuts — while scoring new equity investments on high-quality towers.
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Does the name Nadia Khodossievitch-Léger ring a bell? She has a Wikipedia page, but her second husband, the French artist Fernand Léger, has a much longer one. Wikipedia may not be a reliable barometer for veritable cultural importance, but it reflects the fact that the artist couple has never been allotted the same cultural import,
Move Over, Fernand Léger: In Paris, Nadia Khodossievitch-Léger Gets Her Due Read More »
There’s a chill outside, which means it’s time to grab a warm drink. And what better beverage to indulge in at this time of the year than hot chocolate? Whether you like your hot cocoa with warm whole milk (I’m an oat milk girl myself) or toasted marshmallows, there’s a spot to get the perfect
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Charles Dolan, the pay-television pioneer who won the first cable-TV franchise in Manhattan, founded HBO and later built Cablevision Systems into the fifth-largest U.S. cable company, has died. He was 98. Dolan died Saturday of natural causes, surrounded by his loved ones, Newsday reported, citing a statement from his family shared by a spokesperson. Dolan
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The start of this year was marked by buzz about a pair of blockbuster deals in which some luxury retailers traded in their leases for deeds — a growing trend among a very niche group of high-end companies that could continue into 2025. Just days into 2024, the fashion firm Kering, which owns brands such
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The City Planning Commission will meet next Monday, and a dozen of the city’s rental housing lotteries will close to applicants this week. Here’s the roundup. Adi Talwar A City Planning Commission meeting in 2017. Welcome to City Limits’ NYC Housing Calendar, a weekly feature where we round up the latest housing and land use-related
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The Italian Brands Basketball League returns to the court. The basketball tournament that brings together Italians and Italian-Americans residing between Manhattan and New Jersey on the court, on Tuesday, February 04, 2025 for the fifth time will tread the parquet of Brooklyn’s most exclusive sports arena, the Barclays Center. From 12.30 pm to 2.30 pm
IBBL NYC: how to bring Italians and Americans together on a basketball court! Read More »
Visionarily blending myths and science, Marguerite Humeau’s art feels as if it exists in another spatial and temporal dimension—one where time and geometry bend toward both an ancient remote past and the distant future. Her practice, as methodical as a laboratory experiment, has evolved over the years into a restless, almost alchemical exploration of materials,
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