Manhattan Diner, the 24-hour neighborhood eatery on Broadway and 77th, joins several other businesses on the block forced to close in the coming months for an unknown new development.  DNAinfo, who first reported on the massive closures, reports that the diner’s co-owner, Sam Anastasiou, plans to shut the restaurant down in two to six months [...]

Now that a slew of big-name chains have settled into Columbus Square, the large development surrounding Columbus between 97th and 100th, the realty group who is filling retail space is looking to community businesses.  Winick Realty Group sent out a press release this week announcing their search for smaller retailers to fill the remaining spaces, [...]

The City Council held a full meeting yesterday and voted unanimously to approve the tweaked Riverside Center plans, according to Curbed.  After months of intense negotiation and compromise, from Community Board 7 meetings filled with passionate community members to the City Council’s Land Use Committee vote that took place on December 8th after two days [...]

Extell Development Company is one step closer to building the mega-development at Riverside Center (between 59th and 61st, between West End and Riverside) after “intense” talks with city groups led to an approval of revised plans this week, according to DNAinfo.  The negotiations, which involved Extell, Community Board 7, City Councilwoman Gale Brewer, and the [...]

Extell Development has upped the level of below-market rate housing in the planned Riverside Center development, according to The New York Observer.  The 2,500-unit development planned for the area on the Hudson River from 59th to 62nd is increasing the percentage of low- or moderate-income housing units from 12 percent to 20 percent.  The move [...]

Crain’s reports that Extell Development, the developers of the luxury Rushmore condominium at 64th and Riverside, are paying up big after angering buyers.  Extell must release 41 buyers from their contracts because the developer failed to meet the projected closing date in the offering plan, according to a ruling from New York’s attorney general.  The [...]

Now that 200 West, the big residential and retail development at Broadway and 72nd, has taken down its construction shed, it’s feeling like the area will be up and running soon.  200 West news has been coming in at a steady stream in the last couple of weeks, with many excited about the soon-to-be Trader [...]

While certain development projects receive unending media attention (cough, Atlantic Yards, cough), others seem to go largely undetected by major media outlets.  Riverside Center, the extension of the Riverside South development along the Hudson River and all the way down to 59th, is one such under-reported development, explains Marta Hallowell in The Huffington Post.  Hallowell [...]