Tag Archives: Mayor Bill de Blasio

Blackstone Group Buys Stuyvesant Town In New York City And Gets A Development Rights Kicker!

Development rights, aka air rights, are an extremely valuable commodity on the New York City real estate scene! And it’s the fact that Stuyvesant Town possesses over 700,000 square feet of development rights that some feel helps to explain why Blackstone Group, as part of its deal to purchase this iconic property, was willing to […]

NYC’s Dearth Of Leadership!

New York City, arguably one of the United States most important cities, appears to be operating with a leadership vacuum at the top! I will present the story providing the anecdotal evidence supporting my thesis in a moment. But, as someone who lived in Manhattan and who now owns a business that relies on the social and criminal stability […]

New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio And Lessons In Leadership!

While a title insurance company’s blog is primarily a venue for business news and ideas, not politics, the fact of the matter is that for better or for worse the two are often inextricably linked! For the purposes of this article my politics do not matter (they say that politics is one of the primary topics […]