Another case of demo by neglect in Bklyn?

Nowadays, the building's steps are coming apart, with pieces spilling onto 3rd Avenue, and graffiti's been painted on it in a few spots. According to a spokesperson for the LPC, the commission has contacted the landmark's owner on several occasions and gotten it sealed, hence the boarded-up windows.

3rd St. Landmark Crumbling; Is Whole Foods to Blame?

Saxon Hall sold for $74M

Vantage Properties, an owner and manager of residential real estate in New York City, closed on the largest rental apartment building in Rego Park, Queens, for $74 million on Wednesday, the company said.

The sale price was $1 million less than the price announced in April when the 417-unit building, known as Saxon Hall and located at 62-60 99th Street, went into contract.

The average price per unit was about $177,000 for the building, which is mostly rent-stabilized.

Vantage buys Rego Park apartment building for $74 million

Remembering the fallen

His body was placed on a stretcher and covered with a sheet.

Moments later, his father, Donald Sr., a retired FDNY lieutenant - who sources said was working nearby as a construction foreman and heard the news quickly - was by his side.

Fire Department Chaplain Stephen Harding tried to console the father, embracing him at times.

At one point, the elder Leo was talking on a cellphone and was overcome, slumping over his son's remains.

GRIEVING DAD ONE OF FIRST ON SCENE

In just three weeks, Donald Leo planned to gaze into his bride's eyes at a church altar and then escape with her to Greece for a honeymoon.

Instead, his fiancee will be memorializing his death at the very same church, Our Lady Queen of Peace in New Dorp, on Tuesday.

Staten Island son killed in crane crash

Mr. Kurtaj arrived in the United States two years ago from Kosovo, where he had fought as a soldier in the conflict in the Balkans.

For Mr. Kurtaj, his work with a water and sewerage company was a means to an end, said an uncle, Beke Nikqi, with whom he shared an apartment in the Bronx on Astor Avenue. In an interview in the entrance of their building, Mr. Nikqi described how Mr. Kurtaj not only helped support his parents in Kosovo, but Mr. Nikqi as well.

He described Mr. Kurtaj as a “really hard worker” who wanted “a better life for his family.”

An Accident Fuses Two Workers’ Lives Forever

Is this the ugliest building in NYC?

PICTURE, if you will, the Brooklyn Bridge: the solid stone towers and the gentle arc of the roadbed over the river. Picture it from the Brooklyn side, where thousands gathered Thursday to celebrate the span’s 125th anniversary as one of the city’s most loved structures. If your picture is clear enough, you will also see, looming directly behind it in Manhattan, what may be the least loved: the 32-story, beige limestone monolith that is 375 Pearl Street.

The Tower That Has No Friends

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"This election Tuesday is really out of hand. This week I must have gotten a full tree's worth of crap from every candidate. All from different return addresses all saying they are sent on behalf of the candidates.

Then today mud slinging from the Republican Club saying they are asking Como to step down.
I know your blog has been fair to all the candidates with their good points and stupid points so I figured I'd share this with you. Unfortunately every time I vote I feel like I'm not voting for who the better candidate is but voting for the lesser of the evils."

Michelle L.
Glendale