Spitzer’s Expanding Real-Estate Empire
This week, Eliot L. Spitzer, the former New York governor, invited journalists to view his recent tax returns in his office in the French chateau-influenced Crown Building, on Fifth Avenue, which is...
View ArticleTrump’s Latest Self-Promotion Vehicle: A Lawsuit
Donald Trump, the real-estate mogul whose very name is synonymous with wealth and self-promotion, was at his finest on Monday as he visited seven different broadcast and cable channels. There he was on...
View ArticleBill de Blasio, Friend of Real-Estate Developers?
In 2009, Bill de Blasio, then a Brooklyn city councilman eyeing citywide office, was asked whether he would support a real-estate development of about four hundred and fifty apartments and condos along...
View ArticleDoes Ted Cruz Care What Wall Street Thinks?
Paul Krugman argued in the Times on Monday that the most plausible way out of Washington’s debacle over the budget and debt ceiling would be for Wall Street to come to the rescue—for “big money” to...
View ArticleIs New York’s Charter-School Era Waning?
At Harlem Success Academy 5, one of the newest in the expanding network of New York City charter schools, students can earn “scholar dollars” by staying on their best behavior, turning in assignments...
View ArticleAfter Sledgehammer
In the nineteen-eighties, a Turkish scientist named Faruk Ağa Yarman helped start a hugely successful defense and technology firm called Savronik; he made his name there by reverse-engineering Soviet...
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