Stuyvesant News

Some of the sales recorded last week that went for $1 million or less: $250K or under: FLATBUSH 759 East 10th Street, #7J; Price=$175,000 GMAP It seems like this co-op probably falls within Flatbush's boundaries, but its listing called it Midwood.

We have just honored our veterans throughout America with parades, speeches and solemn prayers.

NEW YORK, NY November 10, 2009 a 'The debate over gas drilling in the Catskills is coming to New York City.

The Scandinavian East Coast Museum will sponsor a "Five Dutch Days" event at 7:00 PM on Thursday, November 12 at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, 4th Avenue @ 80th Street in Bay Ridge.

STUYVESANT Environmental organization Scenic Hudson has purchased development rights on a 60-acre farmland property in the Town of Stuyvesant, guaranteeing the land can continue contributing to the community's agriculture-based economy and rural character.

Thank you for your vote of confidence in John Liu's bid to serve as the next City Comptroller.

The open-air shopping plaza at the beginning of the Adirondack Northway this morning markedA its 50th anniversaryA with a ceremony and a visit from an actor playing the role of explorer Henry Hudson.

Early Tuesday, Suzanne Wasserman walked into the polling place on 18th Street at First Avenue in Manhattan, then voted in a flash, a straight Democratic ticket.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg 's campaign, having spent $100 million or more on ads and outreach, would love to be able to buy a 60-degree day.

Unlike many other neighborhoods in the city, Bedford-Stuyvesant has a great deal of availabile parking.

It didn't take long after New York's top court issued its major Stuyvesant Town - "Peter Cooper Village ruling last week for celebrations at the East Side apartment complex to begin.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. met at the WABC-TV studios in Manhattan on Tuesday night in the second of two debates.

When a state appeals court decision came down today that private equity-backed realty company Tishman Speyer illegally converted thousands of Stuyvesant Town tenants into luxury units , the company pleaded with the judge that the ruling could be a death blow.

Despite all the wailing and celebrating by opposing parties, it may be years before landlords and tenants in New York City know the full impact of a decision by the state's highest court on Thursday that the owners of two major residential complexes improperly charged market-rate rents for thousands of apartments.

Appeals court ruling against landlord Tishman Speyer and its partners will affect far fewer units, and property owners than originally feared; impact outside Manhattan tiny Last week's appeals court ruling that many New York landlords had long predicted would prove cataclysmic now looks to be nothing of the sort.

Tenants and landlords spent much of Thursday struggling to figure out what the state high court's ruling on the future of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village meant for all types of New Yorkers.

In a breaking news ticker that just rocked our world, the Times reports that the state's highest court has ruled against landlord Tishman Speyer in the Stuyvesant Town rent-stabilization lawsuit.

It's true that "second black mayor of New York" does not exactly have the same exciting ring to it as "first black president of the United States." Even so, in a majority-minority city that was as galvanized as any by President Obama 's victory a year ago, you would think that William C. Thompson Jr.

The lawyers were in a huddle, the hour was late and Justice William M. Erlbaum's celebrated equanimity was fraying.

In the realm of recycling, Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights are leading Brooklyn. Three out of every five of the area's residences and businesses recycle paper, plastic, glass and metal - a fact that gained the neighborhoods the Department of Sanitation's highest rating.