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In the long run, fixing NYCHA means replacing it Tenants are suing to have a monitor imposed over New York’s largest slumlord, the city Housing Authority. But ­NYCHA’s problems go far beyond mismanagement: In the long run, it looks...
Small-screen stars slash price of their penthouse “How I Met Your Mother” and “Friends From College” star Cobie Smulders and her husband, Taran Killam, who formerly had roles in “Hamilton” and on “Saturday Night Live,” have dropped...
The joys of living in New York's utopian planned communities In 1932, Frank Lloyd Wright, America’s greatest architect, unveiled a suburban model town he called Broadacre City. Like many utopian plans, it included everything from monorails (for easy transport) to...
Suspected cab thief jumps in Hudson to evade police A carjacking in lower Manhattan on Friday morning ended with the suspect in the water, witnesses said. The 58-year-old suspect stole a yellow cab from in front of the Conrad...
Cuomo's new appointees to Battery Park City board don't even live there No one on Battery Park City’s governing board actually lives in the pricey downtown neighborhood — and Gov. Cuomo just passed up a chance to change that. Cuomo recently named...
Oliver Stone buys $4M high-rise in Battery Park Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone, a native New Yorker, is buying a 24th-floor unit at Riverhouse, at 2 River Terrace in Battery Park City, according to sources familiar with the deal....
Man fatally leaps off of high-rise building A 59-year-old man fatally jumped from a luxury high-rise in Battery Park City on Sunday, fire officials said. Firefighters and paramedics rushed to the scene of the waterfront building on...
Man busted for attempted rape trying to grab his cell phone: sources A Queens man was arrested in an attempted rape at a Battery Park hotel Sunday when he returned to the scene of the alleged crime to retrieve his phone, police...
Police investigating sexual assault report Police are investigating a report of a sexual assault at a Battery Park City hotel, sources said. The assault was reported sometime early Sunday morning at the Conrad Hotel on...