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Extell Continues to Flood Development Pipeline, Filing Plans for Yet Another...
Extell Development chief Gary Barnett continues to pump projects into the development pipeline, economic concerns apparently no more than a
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Extell’s Hudson Square Ambitions
Will it never end? Just yesterday, The Observer reported yet another Extell building plan submitted to the city for approval,
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Plot Twist
There’s a rule of thumb that applies to the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission: The agency shouldn’t try to designate a
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Planned Extell Skyscaper Faces Landmarks Test Over B.F. Goodrich Buildings
Extell Development’s skyscraper planned for 57th Street and Broadway will face a big test Tuesday, as the city’s Landmarks Preservation
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Extell’s West Side Plan for 2,500 Apartments Headed to Hot Seat
The fight over Trump City is about to have a reprise. Extell Development’s planned 2,500-apartment development on the westernmost portion
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Preposterously Expensive Condo Planned for 57th Street
Fifteen Central Park West, be worried. Very worried. Today, The New York Times reports on Gary Barnett’s long-fallow hole on
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Explosive Extell Demoing West 57th Tire Tower
Gary Barnett continues to bulldoze his way across the city. Just last week, his Extell Development unveiled plans for a
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The Dmitry Effect: One57 Now Wants to Break the $100 M. Barrier
The constant one-upmanship that has come to define New York’s luxury real estate market has reached new heights. After the
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One57 Already Getting Foreign Capital
Well, that didn’t take long. One57, that prime slab of midtown real estate, is already attracting top foreign-dollar, The Post
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Gary Barnett on How He Chooses His Designers and the 1,250-Foot Starchitect...
When Gary Barnett builds, he wants everything to be “the best,” as the Extell exec made clear in our recent
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Mystery Buyer Pays More Than $90 Million for Penthouse at One57
Intrigue is afoot tonight as real estate sleuths are likely curious to find out who has paid at least $90 million
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One57 Is Now 1,005 Feet Tall: Barnett Tops Out City’s Tallest Apartment Building
It seems like only yesterday we were standing on the 67th floor of Extell Development’s One57, but these towers have
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Ever the Contrarian, Economist Willem Buiter Buys On the Far West Side
We wonder… when Citigroup’s chief economist was looking for a condo, did he ask his broker: “Would you tell me
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Is Manhattan for Everyone? The pied-à-terre and the ‘poor door’
Seven years ago, when the Westside mega-development known as Hudson Yards was but a twinkle in the collective eye of
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Of Golden Geese and Leaden Critics
New York City has worked hard to present an appealing and welcoming image to the rest of the world, attracting
View ArticleHorse Trade: Race Stable Owner Swaps $6.9 M. for Pad at One57
For a place with two bedrooms and two-and-a-half baths, that looks like a pretty solid deal compared to an offering sheet circulated in January showing an apparently similar unit two floors up listed...
View ArticlePenthouse Listed for $20.66 M. at ‘Poor Door’ Purveyor One Riverside Park...
We cannot help but notice that the realization of such lofty prices makes all the more unseemly the west-side building's use of much-maligned "poor door" design.
View ArticleSeparate and Unequal: In Defense of Extell’s Latest Foray into Economic...
It is difficult, in this case, to understand just what it is that Mr. Barnett's opponents object to.
View ArticleThe Worst Thing About the ‘Poor Door’ Might Be Its Naysayers
A building doesn't create, foster, or even emphasize inequality. It can, however, act as a mirror, the revelations of which are occasionally uncomfortable.
View ArticleChannel Change: Comcast Exec. Flips Upper West Side Condo for $10.95M
The building also offers residents Verizon's FiOS service, which, perhaps, was what caused Mr. Thurston, Comcast bigwig that he is, to head finally for the hills.
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