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Reply The most striking element of the plan is the glassy, 750-to-900-foot tower that would be built atop Macys recognizable 19-story department store building that dates to 1902. (FXCollaborative) MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — After more than a century in Herald Square, Macys has unveiled a proposal to transform the area surrounding its flagship store through a new office tower, pedestrian plaza and subway station improvements. The most striking element of the plan, which was released Monday, is t...

Nurse set to start new job decides against it after being victim of random punch     NEW YORK (WCBS) — A Missouri nurse who just moved to New York City for a new job says she was assaulted by a stranger near Penn Station. The incident sent her packing for home. Taylor Dowling arrived from St. Louis two days ago ready to start her dream of living in the Big Apple. The 25-year-old and her parents were walking back to their hotel from dinner at around 7 p.m. on Wednesday when Dowling says s...

PICTURED: Man who hit an NYPD detective with a stick while he probed robbery appears in court and is ordered to have a psych evaluation as crime spirals in NYC Akeele Morgan, 25, appeared in Queens Criminal Court for an arraignment relating to a brazen daytime attack on Monday in which he allegedly hit an NYPD detective over the head with a stick However, the arraignment was delayed when Morgan failed to cooperate with the court on Tuesday  When Morgan finally did appear to agree to talk to h...

Manhattan: Dan Biederman’s column misses the mark on what has been wrong and missing at Penn Station (“Keep up momentum to fix Penn Station and its environs,” April 9). What is wrong is that we are still living with the decision made in the late 1950s to raze the original Penn Station and its triumphant public spaces and to later replace them with a subterranean transit hub in the basement of Madison Square Garden and 2 Penn Plaza.

eye on the news Midtown’s Miracle on Ice In Bryant Park, the Bank of America Winter Village was a bright spot of a bleak season. New York Arts and Culture Our long, dark winter is over. So is the Bank of America Winter Village, which shut down in March, with construction crews dismantling the skating rink and the assortment of food, drink, and retail stalls in Bryant Park. In the context of New York’s massive losses over the past year—31,853 people dead from Covid-19, 626...

25 Free Performances Come to Bryant Park Starting in June The park will host events for live audiences of 200 with institutions including the New York Philharmonic, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Joe’s Pub and the Classical Theater of Harlem. From June to September, Bryant Park will present a series of 25 programs from some of the city’s most prominent institutions and performance groups.Credit...Zack DeZon for The New York Times April 14, 2021Updated 10:10 a.m. ET With arts performances in New Yo...

Share via Shortlink All in all, the $212 billion budget is a mixed bag for the industry. (Getty/Illustration by Kevin Rebong for The Real Deal) As the dust clears on New York’s $212 billion budget, the real estate industry finds a changed landscape. The agreement includes more than $2 billion in federal and state rent relief, but also tax hikes exceeding $4.3 billion. And several provisions that the real estate industry had supported were dropped. Here’s where things landed on key i...

NYC lifts cap on number of street food vendors By FOX 5 NY Staff Published  Expanding street food vendor permits The city council has passed a bill lifting the cap on street food vendors for the first time in 40 years. NEW YORK - On Thursday, the New York City Council passed a bill that will allow more food vendors to serve hungry New Yorkers on streets across the city. The new legislation calls for 4,000 full-time mobile vendor permits for street food sellers, to be phased in over a decade wi...

Fair Park Dallas selects CA design firm to turn parking lot into park Theyre going to turn a parking lot into a park. Photo courtesy of Fair Park First A renowned landscape architect firm from California has been selected to design a new community park at Fair Park, the 277-acre National Historic Landmark in Dallas thats home to the State Fair of Texas. Studio-MLA, a Los Angeles-based firm founded by landscape guru Mia Lehrer, will design a new Community Park to replace a 1,000-space parking...

Because if you pay three times the market price for wages and dont collect other than taxes. john: they pay three times the market price. >> i heard metro-north are in the 140 straight range salary part of the problem with mass transit its the wages and benefits are so high. john: and most people dont know they were built by private companies. think you dan biederman. privatizing the water service but what about the military or selling human organs? kennedy checks out privately run libraries and...