NYT Most-emailed: The High Line’s “small town in the air”

Today, a new accolade! For the first time, an article about the High Line made it to the “most-emailed” list on the New York Times web site. The article, called “The High Line: A Railway Out of Manhattan”, captures the special atmosphere up on the line– “almost a small town in the air… It even [...]

Inspired by the High Line: “The Curious Garden” reviewed

[Peter Brown, Author/Illustrator, demonstrates his technique at a reading for elementary school students] This Sunday’s New York Times Book Review featured a review of its current #2 best-selling children’s book: The Curious Garden, a lushly illustrated tale of a boy who finds an expanse of flowers and plants growing in the most unlikely of places: [...]

NYT’s ‘Public Lives’ on FHL Co-Founders

[Robert Hammond, left, and Josh David on the High Line. Photo by Oscar Hidalgo for the Times.] Today’s New York Times Metro section featured a profile of Co-Founders Robert Hammond and Josh David in the “Public Lives” column. On the 1999 Community Board meeting where the two met, and first learned about the High Line: [...]

Westbeth High Line Section

[Left, National Geographic magazine; Right, Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times] Some of you may have seen this story in last Friday’s Real Estate section of the Times. While the High Line park will begin at Gansevoort and Washington, few people know that the High Line originally went as far south as St. John’s Park Terminal, [...]

High Line Featured in NYT Editorial

For the very first time that we are aware of, the High Line was featured in a New York Times Editorial. In it, America’s paper of record challenges the City and Tishman Speyer to seize the opportunity provided by the development rights to the West Side Rail Yards and to do the right thing and [...]

Rail Yards Update: MTA Might Pick a Bidder by Wednesday

The development process for the West Side Rail Yards could be on the verge of an important milestone, which comes as a surprise to many who assumed this process would be slowed in the wake of economic uncertainty and the recent shakeup in state government. The New York Times reported this weekend that the MTA [...]

Anchors Away: Morgan Stanley Pulls Out of Tishman’s Bid

The Times reports today that financial giant Morgan Stanley has backed away from its deal with Rail Yards bidder Tishman Speyer (bid here). Tishman is one of four remaining bidders for the site, (Brookfield Properties dropped out last week) and, until today, was one of three with an anchor tenant. Related has secured Newscorp and [...]

BREAKING: Brookfield Not Submitting a New Bid

Brookfield Properties has announced they have not submitted a second bid for the Rail Yards site. Supplementary bids were due yesterday. Back in January, the MTA asked the five developers to submit supplementary materials supporting their ability to lease, not buy, the 26-acre site. None of this financial information was made public. Brookfield’s decision not [...]

Javits: Electeds Oppose Spitzer, Questions about the Value of a Convention Center

Charles Bagli writes in the Times today that Governor Spitzer’s decision to curtail Javits expansion and sell off two adjacent parcels of land is raising some hackles among others in the West Side Development arena. Among the opponents are Senator Schumer and Speaker Quinn. One of the parcels is the 33/34 block, just north of [...]

Sweet “No-Profit” Gallery Opens Near the High Line

[Photo by Suzanne DeChillo, New York Times] From the Times this weekend: A gallery has opened near the High Line that defies the current super-hot gallery market by operating as an egalitarian “no-profit” space for young and emerging artists. Honey Space is run by some artists themselves, and any revenues generated from the sale of [...]