Steve Cuozzo joined the New York Post in 1972. He has covered commercial real estate for The Post in his Realty Check column every Tuesday since 1999, and the city's restaurant scene in his Wednesday Free Range column since 1998. He also contributes regularly to the op-ed pages, where he has closely monitored the state of progress -- or lack thereof -- at the World Trade Center site since shortly after the 9/11 attacks. His book, "It's Alive," published by Times Books in 1996, chronicled The Post's successful battle for survival in the early '90s when it foundered under previous ownership. A proud native of Brooklyn, he lives today in Manhattan.
Don't worry, says Extell Development Co. chief Gary Barnett -- it's coming! Even though it doesn't yet look that way. "It" is Carnegie 57, the endlessly awaited, 74-story super-luxury condo/hotel tower Extell is...
August 31, 2010 12:00 AM
It's tough to keep up with David Bouley's shape-shifting TriBeCa world. We scratched our heads when we learned that the mercurial chef's forever-planned Japanese place, BrushStroke, would open in the Hudson Street...
August 25, 2010 12:00 AM
Believe it or not, Bank of America — having comfortably settled into its grand new tower at 1 Bryant Park — is on the prowl for up to 1 million square feet more of office space in Manhattan. And that could spell more...
August 24, 2010 1:37 AMThe Empire State Building's owners sure have chutzpah. The guys who won't light up their landmark for Mother Teresa want a holy dispensation to prevent a new nearby skyscraper from cramping its style. They're...
August 20, 2010 12:00 AM
It may be too early to call, but the hell with it: 2010 is the worst year for new restaurants since Ice Age in vestors opened the first mammoth house. It took time for the effects of the 2008 Wall Street crash to...
August 18, 2010 12:00 AMWnet has signed a giant, 95,000 square-foot lease at Worldwide Plaza. The parent of public TV's Channel 13 and WLIW-21 took two floors in the pyramid-topped, 1.8 million square-foot tower at 825 Eighth Ave. between...
August 17, 2010 12:00 AM
While the Parks Department sifts proposals to set up a few food carts on the terrace of shuttered Tavern on the Green, it's in no rush to reopen the place -- despite the embarrassment of an iconic, hugely popular...
August 17, 2010 12:00 AM
What, you say? Burger bliss in the stomping ground of what eater.com mirthfully calls The Olds, land of constipated white-bread eaters? Well, yes, actually. And not because Danny Meyer just opened a Shake Shack on East...
August 11, 2010 3:38 AM
The developer of the mam moth, $1 billion-plus Sky View Parc condo-retail complex in downtown Flushing is scrambling to borrow nearly $150 million so it can complete the first phase of the project -- drastically...
August 10, 2010 12:00 AM
‘Are you enjoying your ceviche?” How to answer when restaurant staffers butt right in, five seconds after serving you the dish in question? An honest reply regarding Zengo’s “rainbow” ceviche might have gone like this:...
August 04, 2010 2:48 AMJust two years ago, the Midtown block bounded by Broadway and Eighth Avenue and West 54th and 55th streets was poised for "sweeping change," as we wrote at the time. Boston Properties was gearing up for a giant...
August 03, 2010 12:00 AMGood luck to Community Board 7, which has the audac ity to want bicycle deliverymen to wear proper ID and, God forbid, obey traffic laws. Upper West Side residents tired of the terror will likely have to live with...
July 30, 2010 12:00 AMTomato lovers, rejoice: The divine fruit everyone thinks is a vegetable, painfully absent last summer, has come back with a sweet vengeance. Last year, the dreaded airborne fungus phytophthora infestants, or “late...
July 28, 2010 1:58 AM
It's good-bye tacky chandeliers, hello to the first large new tenant in years at 100 Church St. Six months after SL Green took over the 1-million-square-foot building near Ground Zero formerly owned by Alex Sapir,...
July 27, 2010 12:00 AMIt's taken nearly nine years, but large-scale commercial redevelopment of the World Trade Center site is tantalizingly close to taking off. But everything depends on the outcome of two ongoing, parallel negotiations...
July 26, 2010 12:00 AM
The Russians are us. Forget spies. Mr. Prokhorov owns the Nets. A hair place near me is called Salon Moscow — and I live on the Upper East Side, not in Brighton Beach. Now they’re in the restaurant business, in...
July 21, 2010 1:05 AMThe "Lullaby of Broad way" might become The Lulla-buy of Broadway. The owners of The shuttered Milford Plaza Hotel, which used The slogan for decades, have tapped a top hotel broker to assess interest in a possible...
July 20, 2010 12:00 AM
‘I’m at this place called The Lion. It’s real chichi — well, not really chichi. It’s a pub.” The booming voice, perceptively capturing this zoo-like new joint’s internal contradictions, belonged to a guy in the men’s...
July 14, 2010 1:28 AMBank of New York Mellon is considering a complex, three-way real estate maneuver that would include moving part of its operations to 1 World Trade Center and selling its historic Art Deco headquarters tower at 1 Wall...
July 13, 2010 12:00 AM
Bar Boulud will soon have a next-door kissing cousin: a French-inspired, grill-themed restaurant that Daniel Boulud plans to open this winter at the corner of Broadway and 64th Street. Among other things, the 4,000...
July 07, 2010 12:42 AMA gleaming, four-story glass retail showcase is coming to 34th Street west of Macy's -- and bringing a giant DSW shoe emporium with it. It will make a splendid addition to the block between Seventh and Eighth avenues,...
July 06, 2010 12:00 AM
Great news for dining maso-chists: Midtown’s once-snootiest restaurants, Monkey Bar and Le Caprice, have opened their gates to the rabble. Both places, once forbidding, are suddenly welcoming new customers with open...
June 30, 2010 12:59 AM
The latest commercial property loan to go into special-servicing is at a surprising address: RFR Realty's 757 Third Ave. at 48th Street, a nearly 500,000-square-foot office tower. The $126 million loan was quietly...
June 29, 2010 12:00 AM
The best thing about Tavern on the Green was its outdoor garden. The canopy of summer greenery and rainbow glow from Japanese lanterns made up for plodding service and fussy dishes beyond the kitchen’s grasp. It was a...
June 23, 2010 1:25 AMIt's small as office deals go -- but a decision Wilhelmina Models has made to keep its New York headquarters at 300 Park Ave. South is sheer beauty for landlord Rockrose Development. "They are very pretty girls,...
June 22, 2010 12:00 AMOutlaw them all. You don't need a "blue ribbon" panel or a think tank to figure out how to tame the street-fair plague. Just ban the damn things. The city's streets and sidewalks are the greatest, liveliest al...
June 18, 2010 12:00 AM
Tamarind Tribeca, sequel to the wildly popular Tamarind on East 22nd Street, was well worth the wait. But owner Avtar Walia bravely -- or insanely? -- picked a corner bound to set off the foodie blogosphere: eyeball to...
June 16, 2010 12:00 AM
The race to buy a piece of the Port Authority's 1 World Trade Center is getting down and dirty. Time Warner Center developer Stephen Ross unloaded yesterday on a claim that his Related Cos. -- one of two finalists...
June 15, 2010 12:00 AMTavern on the Green was dead meat the day the city picked Dean Poll to replace Jennifer LeRoy. City Hall wanted LeRoy out -- not only for letting the place run down, but because it held a grudge against her family...
June 13, 2010 12:00 AM
Let's hope that Empire State Building operator Anthony Malkin comes to his senses and gives Mother Teresa her big night on Aug. 26. He's not the smoothest guy with the media, but Malkin has magnificently rescued a...
June 11, 2010 12:00 AM
NEW YORK POST is a registered trademark of NYP Holdings, Inc.
nypost.com, nypostonline.com, and newyorkpost.com are trademarks of NYP Holdings, Inc.
Copyright 2010 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy | Terms of Use
