In my New York City neighborhood, brutalist architecture forms the residential foundation. Buildings planned and built in the 1970s were brutalist in
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Stupid, stubborn or incompetent? With RIOC, it’s often hard to tell, but we discovered a case which may cover all three. And
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One of Roosevelt Island’s biggest stories in 2021 was Westview’s reaching the final stage of privatization, welcoming home ownership and income stabilization
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The Westview Sales Gallery opened yesterday, a welcome storefront for residents and newcomers eager for the pleasures of a new, extra roomy
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With the RIOC/Hudson-Related duo out, Westview’s management started a street level facelift for the long neglected corridor. Hopes are high that RIOC
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A fresh RIOC cover up, fantasizing a loopy Sportspark Bank, baffled as much as the failures triggering it angered. Soon, a web
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John E. Donnelly is an attorney experienced with many years of Roosevelt Island transactions, including the Mitchell Lama conversions of Rivercross, Island
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Will RIOC become homeless when its freebie lease expires in July? Times change, and the state agency faces a whole new set
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Announcing the Mitchell-Lama conversion final approval, David Hirschhorn said, “Perched atop the East River on Manhattan’s Roosevelt Island, coop apartments in the
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