De Blasio is elected mayor in New York

Bill de Blasio, who transformed himself from a little-known occupant of an obscure office into the fiery voice of New York's disillusionment with a new gilded age, was elected the city's 109th mayor Tuesday, according to exit polls.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2013/11/05/blasio-elected-mayor-new-york/qlKjMEnGKMSTjgZty7a6tO/story.html

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Management Discusses Q3 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

... a whole loan to fund the conversion into luxury condominiums of an existing commercial building in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. In early 2012, we made a strategic decision to focus on the New York City residential market, as in ...

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A Kind Word For Norman Rockwell

... arriving here, as a twenty-two-year-old Dutch stowaway, in 1926. (He reminisced, "My Communist friends in Greenwich Village said America is a lousy country. I told them they were nuts.") De Kooning emboldened me to write something that was in the ...

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/11/a-kind-word-for-norman-rockwell.html

Turn Coltrane home into museum

... the Long Island group and signing off on restoration efforts, according to Fulgoni. Last month's event in Greenwich Village sparked some serendipity. Greta Olsen, a former tenant who had rented a room, took a large stained-glass window that had ...

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Greenwich Village apartments in Va. Beach sell for $36.2 million

Rieder Holdings, a New York real estate investment and management firm looking to expand its presence in Hampton Roads, has purchased the 224-unit Greenwich Village Apartments in Virginia Beach for $36.2 million, or about $162,000 per unit.

http://www.virginiabusiness.com/news/article/greenwich-village-apartments-in-va.-beach-sell-for-36.2-million

5 Key Points in NYC Mayor's Race

... both parties in the primary, not to mention the titillating presence of Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer. Greenwich Village isn't often a Republican bastion but Michael Bloomberg, who won his first two mayoral races as a Republican and his third as ...

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Frommer guidebooks come roaring back

Arthur Frommer's name has gone a lot of places since he published his first $5-a-day European travel guide in the late 1950s.

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