Bowery – In the Bowery, Last of the Flophouses – NYTimes.com

A Living Museum of Sad Stories
By GREGORY BEYER
Published: May 8, 2009
DEPENDING on its occupants, the lobby of the White House Hotel, a 92-year-old single-room-occupancy building on the Bowery near Bond Street, can have the feel of a sanitarium, minus the institutional obsession with cleanliness.
via Bowery – In the Bowery, Last of the Flophouses – NYTimes.com.

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Funny, All These Awesome New Condo Units Aren’t Selling

Gothamist: Funny, All These Awesome New Condo Units Aren’t Selling
Funny, All These Awesome New Condo Units Aren’t Selling
122408viridian.jpgDoesn’t your heart just bleed for the luckless developers who saturated our fair city with luxury condos on the eve of this catastrophic economic collapse? Despite a concerted effort by brokers to manufacture the illusion that they’re making [...]

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Four Groups Submit Bids to Take Over Starrett City

Four Groups Submit Bids to Take Over Starrett City – NYTimes.com
Four Groups Submit Bids to Take Over Starrett City
By CHARLES V. BAGLI
Four groups submitted their final offers for the sprawling Starrett City housing complex on Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn on Thursday.
None of the groups would say how much they bid for the 5,881 apartments in [...]

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