The Moinian Group scored some new financing for its tower at 2 Washington Street in the Financial District, which is undergoing a partial residential conversion. Square Mile Capital is providing Moinian with $131.5 million in financing for the work at the 31-story North Building in the two-building, mixed-use complex called 17 Battery Park, according to a new city filing. The Moinian Group partnered with Collaborative Construction Management to undertake the conversion, which will provide 345 […]
Via Wikimedia The Metropolitan Museum of Art and 12 other New York City institutions should be free of charge for New York residents, claims one local resident. New Yorker Pat Nicholson this week launched a website aimed at educating the city about the “right” to free admission to museums like the Met and others, as Metro reported. According to Nicholson, a 19th-century law states the Met should offer free admission five days a week in exchange for a rent-free lease on city property. An excerpt from the initiative’s website explaining the law On its website, the initiative “Free Admission” explains the […]
The New York Civil Liberties Union has new digs at Rudin Management Company’s One Whitehall Street. The organization is subleasing about 19,000 square feet on the third floor from financial services firm Janney Montgomery Scott, representatives for the NYCLU confirmed. This will be a second location for the New York arm of the American Civil Liberties Union, which already has a main office at 125 Broad Street. The organization needed the extra space to accommodate […]