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David Dinkins

David Dinkins, NY’s First Black Mayor Who Set in Motion 1990s Rebound, Dies at 93

By Nicholas Rizzi

Skyline view of New York City during the 1977 blackout.

Coronavirus · Features

A Historian Looks at NYC’s Response to Past Disasters

By Larry Getlen

An aerial view of 1970s Williamsburg.

New York City History According to REBNY

By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Rikers Island in 1949.

A Slim History of Kidnapping, Overcrowding, Rats and Salvador Dalí on Rikers Island

By Nicholas Rizzi

The Times Square Theater is being largely demolished for a new glass retail project, but the developer is preserving the facade and some historic interior elements.

Design + Construction · Architecture

How One Developer Is Reconstructing the Times Square Theater

By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Mayor Bill de Blasio's commitment to affordable housing development has been warmly received by city developers and real estate interests.

Features · Policy

On the Home Front: The Mayor and REBNY’s Unlikely Alliance on Affordable Housing

By Aaron Short

Janno Lieber

Silverstein’s Janno Lieber to Head Up Development at the MTA

By Liam La Guerre

Paul Massey

Paul Massey Takes on de Blasio, Long Odds With Mayoral Bid

By Rey Mashayekhi

Janno Lieber

Financial District

Silverstein’s Janno Lieber Talks Spotify, 2 WTC and the New Downtown

By Terence Cullen

Replacing the existing Port Authority Bus Terminal is one of several major projects facing the agency (Photo: Céline Haeberly/for Observer).

Features · Transportation

Port Reform: How the Port Authority Became Less of a Real Estate Entity

By Terence Cullen

Paul Massey.

Paul Massey Taps SL Green Exec to Run de Blasio Challenge (Not That He’s Running)

By Lauren Elkies Schram

The mostly residential Roosevelt Island was home to prisoners when it bore a different name.

Design + Construction · Infrastructure

Before the Renaming for Dinkins, There Was Koch, RFK and FDR

By Terence Cullen

So They Say: Steven Spinola Talks Unethical Brokers, Taxes and Apartment Shortage

By Karenn Marin

Financing Mayor de Blasio's 200,000 Affordable Housing Units (Illustration by Jack Hughes)

New York’s Real Estate Community Sizes Up de Blasio’s Affordable Housing Plan

By Damian Ghigliotty

No End in Sight for Midtown Hotel Boom

By Al Barbarino

On the New York Mets and Negative Absorption

By Richard Persichetti

Ed Koch: Master of Real Estate

By Robert Knakal

Reeling in the Years With the Real Estate Board of New York: In their own words, brokers and owners tell the tale of REBNY’s past half century

By Jotham Sederstrom