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Upper West Side’s Final Frontier! Community Board Scrutinizes Riverside Center
After decades, the final chapter of the Trump City development saga is now taking shape with the first rounds of debate under way at the most local level of public review. Tuesday night’s Community...
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Will a Supposed Typo Cost Gary Barnett Millions?
As successful as Gary Barnett has been of late, his Extell Development has not been without its unenviable problems. First, there was those onerous brokers who refused to give back their advances on...
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Gary Barnett Puts New Riverside Ballfields Under Luxury Lockdown
Gary Barnett has made plenty of enemies at his developments at Riverside South, including litigious tenants and Borough President Scott Stringer. Now, local little leaguers are up in arms too. Part of...
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Barnett Beats Back Cuomo in Rushmore Typo Case
Score another win for Big, Bad Gary Barnett. A State Supreme Court judge ruled yesterday that a case against the attorney general’s office filed by Barnett could not be dismissed, according to The Real...
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A-Rod Slides Into Home at Barnett’s Rushmore, West Side’s Newest Clubhouse
Once upon a time, people could not wait to break their contracts at the Rushmore and flee Gary Barnett’s ultra-luxury twin tower complex in Riverside South. Was it a typo or just bubble-era buyers’...
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Mounting Rushmore: Insurance Big Shot Buys Upstairs from A-Rod
The Rushmore has been a hot commodity of late, attracting the likes of Alex Rodriguez, Robin Williams and violinist Pinkus Zuckerman. Should any of them need homeowners’ insurance, they could turn to...
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Gary Barnett Scores Another All-Star as ‘Melo Moves West
Donald Trump may want to buy the Mets, but the developer with a real feel for the game—as well as basketball, it turns out—is Extell’s Gary Barnett. Scoring the extra point is the fact that he famously...
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A-Rod's Apparent Apartment: Which Celeb Stole Slugger's Rushmore Roost?
Could Alex Rodriguez still be rounding the bases looking for home? In February, the Yankees slugger was reportedly warming up to buy a four-bedroom condo at the two-towered Rushmore on Riverside South....
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Midwood Rabbi Takes $3.4 M. Vow at the Rushmore
The rushin' rabbi. It seems that we’re in the wrong profession. Although The Observer has long considered a career in rabbinical studies, we fully intend to pursue our religious calling after noticing...
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A-Rod’s Apartment Hits a Homer at the Rushmore
Aside from his oft-discussed, revolving door of high-profile girlfriends, Alex Rodiguez is known for being a playboy on an entirely different field. No, not on the baseball diamond—that ninth inning...
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The Latest Rushmore Celeb? Mati Bracha Buys $5 M. Penthouse
Living large. (<a href="http://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/riverside-dr-west-end-ave/the-rushmore-80-riverside-boulevard/34001">City Realty</a>) In February of last year, Ilan Bracha, the...
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Upper Best Side: A New Look and Some Affordable Housing for the First Tower...
The entrance to the new tower. (DNAinfo) The Christian de Portzamparc project is at the northwest corner of the site. (DNAinfo) We already know that the DMZ between the Upper West Side and Hell’s...
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Starchitect Switcheroo! Will the Upper West Side Get Any Pritzker-Worthy...
Has the Upper West Side fallen for an eight-acre bait and switch? At least one and possibly all five towers at the massive Riverside Center development will not be the work of Pritzker Prize-winning...
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Goldstein, Hill & West: How New York’s Most Anonymous Architects Have Taken...
Hill, West and Goldstein, the architects you never knew you knew. (Peter Letre) The sun was setting over New York harbor, and behind it, the coast of New Jersey. From the 17th floor of 11 Broadway,...
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Baghdad on the Hudson: Iraq Investor Buys Bruce Willis’s Old Trump Place Pad...
A bit more tranquil than the Tigris. For his day job, Sanjay Motwani is the president and portfolio manager at Sansar Capital Management, which is one of the largest private equity firms in Iraq....
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