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City Museum Disposes of Rockefeller Rooms
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The Museum of the City of New York has decided to quietly dispose of its Rockefeller Rooms to make way for a modernization of its Fifth Avenue building, The Art Newspaper reports. For 70 years, the two period rooms from the Manhattan townhouse of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller have been the museum’s main attractions. The dressing room is likely to go the Metropolitan Museum of Art which is currently reinstalling its suite of American period rooms, slated to reopen in January 2009. read more »
Standard Oil Up For Grabs! $262.5 Million?
Crain's has big news this afternoon: The old Koeppel family is selling the 31-story Standard Oil Building, built by John D. Rockefeller at Broadway and Beaver Street in 1922 and 1923.
The asking price for 26 Broadway has not been revealed, but downtown office buildings are selling at an average of $350 a square foot, or $262.5 million for the 750,000 square foot office tower.
Not bad for a masterpiece of limestone-clad capitalism. read more »
- Max AbelsonRockefellers Want $44 M. on Fifth as Little Rocks Move Downtown; Nicky's Erstwhile Brother Buys
Last month, whispers that the sprawling triplex belonging to the late Laurance Rockefeller at 834 Fi read more »
Big Deal
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The Comptroller's Fuzzy Math
It was more than a little disturbing to discover last week that City Comptroller William Thompson, t read more »
Getting Back to Normal Shouldn't Include Old Deals
It'll never be the same again. read more »
Leading a Life, Not In Extremis, But In Peace
I live on Hudson Street, north of Canal, pretty much in the exact spot where Jane Jacobs wrote her c read more »
