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Thanks to SB35, developers can get around neighborhood negotiations or city planning....

A city-issued stop-work order placed Friday on the construction site of the future RH Guesthouse at the Historic Crystal Palace was lifted hours later after developer Mark Hunt paid off the outstanding balance, people associated with the project said. Yet stop-work orders on two other Hunt-led projects, also red-tagged Friday, remained in effect at the end of business hours, according to a city engineer. The outstanding debt to the city amounted to more than $170,000 for encroachment fees, which developers are required to pay when their projects take up parking spaces, sidewalks and other pu...

The lengthy legal battle to stop four towers from being built in Two Bridges has come to an end.

Essex Crossing’s new web site. First off, Delancey Street Associates, the entity created as an umbrella organization for the developers, now has a website.  The home page calls the project an “unprecedented development comprised of 1.9 million square feet of residential, commercial, and community space.”  There’s not much information available as of yet that wasn’t released when Mayor Bloomberg announced the deal in September but there is an email signup for people interested in information about retail/office spaces and affordable apartments (there will be 500 residential units s...

After months of pleas from their attorneys and from Community Board 3, the city has finally agreed to give six families living in a doomed building at 400 Grand St. priority status for new affordable apartments in the Essex Crossing project. The decision from the commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) […]