Sixteen Court Street, that soaring wedding cake of a building that pierces the sky above downtown Brooklyn, was built in 1928—the cusp of an economic catastrophe against which all future recessions would be measured. Like those who made that ambitious investment in the borough of Kings, SL Green could not have known what lay in store when it bought ...

Rupert Murdoch will consolidate the offices of his chain of weekly newspapers into one 18,000-square-foot space in Bruce Ratner's One Metrotech Center, the 24-story Class A building at 70 Myrtle Avenue, according to an annoucement released this morning. The group of newspapers, called, appropriately enough, the Community Newspaper Group, includes the Bronx Times Reporter, as well as two ...

The most vocal opponent of the plan for Willets Point, Hiram Monserrate, says he'll probably vote in favor tomorrow. [Iron Triangle Tracker] David Paterson's budget cuts will force the East River State Park in Williamsburg, only a year old, to close for the winter. [N.A.G.] The downtown Brooklyn project at City Point is going forward, it ...

From Curbed: "So, on to the stats assembled by Ideal Properties Group LLC about tenants who moved to (or within) Downtown Brooklyn (so-called) during the Q3 2008. For starters, their average age is 29.5 years, which is suspiciously short of the Big Three Zero. Also 83 per cent do not rent alone--they have significant others, families or rommates. Fifty-two ...