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Death & Taix Five hours of chaos and bonhomie

i happened to be in LA the last night Taix was open. it was… quite an experience! gourmetmagazine.net/taix-french-...

Elizabeth Street Garden developers sue city over mayor's “lawless” act in declaring site a park Pennrose, Habitat NYC and Riseboro sued the city over Mayor Eric Adams’ decision to declare the Elizabeth Street Garden an official park.

NEW: Developers of the proposed Elizabeth Street Garden affordable housing project are suing the city and Eric Adams over illegally declaring the site a city park: therealdeal.com/new-york/202...

shuddering about what hell part two will wrought

only like five journalists can pull off flowery writing and none of them are working/alive right now

The city chose an “emerging developer” for a major Meatpacking District project. Some call it a “mockery” The Economic Development Corporation selected Douglaston Development and Kinwood Partners to build housing on a city-owned site. The designation of Kinwood as an emerging developer has raised some eye...

The city just awarded a big development project to a so-called "emerging developer." On paper, this is true, but there's one issue: the firm's founder is a real estate scion and once held an exec role at a billion-dollar REIT: therealdeal.com/new-york/202...

Will the housing measures bring projects back from the dead? Voters approved housing ballot measures that overhaul New York City’s land use review process. Here’s what it means for future development.

The housing questions on the ballot passed, but many still don’t know what comes next. Some have said it’s a way to defang City Council, others believe it gives developers more power. Here’s what they actually mean and what housing folks/developers plan to do: therealdeal.com/new-york/202...

JLL fires top broker who compared Mamdani to Hitler JLL fired Scott Panzer after he compared Zohran Mamdani to Adolf Hitler.

A JLL broker was promptly fired after comparing Mamdani to Hitler in an all-office email. He also expressed concern that NYC would soon have public Islamic calls to prayer (something it already has): therealdeal.com/new-york/202...

Did the city lose out on 1,000 housing units in Midtown South? Report by Midtown South supporters argues that City Council changes meant potential housing losses of up to 1,000 apartments.

Great story about the Midtown South rezoning. The city says it will yield nearly 10k units. But the rezoning included carveouts reducing the total. One side says the reduction is major, another says it's minor. Projections are more of an art than science: therealdeal.com/new-york/202...

A Love Letter to Priya Krishna Dear Priya ( The Epilogue )

shots fired from le veau d'or's bar director to NYT's priya krishna: mozzysticks.substack.com/p/a-love-let...

Rent Guidelines Board just voted 5-4 on the following rent-stabilized rent increases: 3% for one-year leases, 4.5% for two-year leases

important personal update: i’m now in my pluot era

City abandons Elizabeth Street Garden plans First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro announced that the city has reached an agreement with Council member Chris Marte to rezone three other sites instead of building on the Elizabeth Street Garden site.

Elizabeth Street Garden NIMBYs ultimately prevailed therealdeal.com/new-york/202...

REBNY appeals FARE Act loss The Real Estate Board of New York is appealing a federal judge’s decision to reject its motion for a preliminary injunction to halt the FARE Act and to dismiss several of the trade group’s claims.

A judge let the FARE Act be enacted this week. But, one day later, a major NYC real estate lobby is already trying to appeal that decision: therealdeal.com/new-york/202...

bacon* not sausage

was making some morningstar farm veggie sausage for my lunch today, marked clearly as "plant based," but read the ingredients and it includes egg whites? that seems... wrong?

god tier jane pratt headline

The Terrible Truth About Sherita, Brooklyn’s Beloved Billboard Dinosaur The vanished icon of Atlantic Ave. was the relic of a secretive family who grabbed buildings from immigrant owners across the booming borough.

we all knew this was coming. they milkshake ducked sherita

(but in all honesty this story contains stellar reporting)

www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/19/s...

yes but… just imagine zach as a wedding dj

my friend is currently looking for wedding dj’s in brooklyn and one person’s bio says he’s a founding member of beirut which, for a certain subset of millennials, is indeed a selling point!

feels like jane is running out of relatable shenanigans

currently in the phase of listing to the new bonnie prince billy album where i’m texting everyone i know to also listen to it

A funny thing about Bluesky is that every once in a while, a post of mine linking to a story gets shared and liked a fair amount and yet it drives absolutely no traffic. This is actually different from Twitter, which would drive a bit of traffic in these instances...

Nepo babies grow up: Trusts represent more than a quarter of Manhattan transactions The surge of activity from three years ago reveals a dramatic increase in homes being inherited or provided by parents to their children.

Depressing NYC real estate statistic of the day: More than a quarter of Manhattan residential transactions last year came via trusts (meaning rich person bequeathing to other rich offspring): therealdeal.com/new-york/202...

all lana del rey songs follow the exact same structure BUT it’s a very good and effective structure

like clockwork

oofff this is classless

layoffs at the information… extremely foreboding

so sorry to hear this, paris!