Blair Golson

Articles by Blair Golson

Last of the Empire Builders

by Blair Golson
Dec. 19th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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Mixed-use development projects have become part of New York's cityscape in recent years.  read more »

The Wannabe

by Noelle Hancock, Michael Calderone and Blair Golson
Dec. 5th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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"I'm not very good at talking to people that I don't know, which sounds weird.  read more »

Doctoroff Olympiad

by Blair Golson
Nov. 28th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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When a reporter recently challenged City Hall's proposal to build a football stadium on the West Sid  read more »

Jets Stadium Foes Have Big Problem With Dolan Family

by Ben Smith and Blair Golson
Nov. 21st, 2004, 7:00 pm
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What's the point of having a front group if you can't stay behind the curtain?That's the question th  read more »

New Gridiron Has Hidden Costs

by Blair Golson
Nov. 21st, 2004, 7:00 pm
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In the Jets' first-ever television ad for the team's planned stadium, to be built atop the West Side  read more »

Will City Foot the Bill For Olympic Overruns?

by Blair Golson
Oct. 24th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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Standing before a crowd of high-school students that had been nicely primed—the students leaped to  read more »

Trumped-Up Charges

by Marcus Baram, Blair Golson, George Gurley, Jessica Joffe and Noelle Hancock
Oct. 24th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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The men’s room of the New York Hilton was thick with cheap men’s cologne.  read more »

All Not Aboard! Amtrak Pulling Brake on Penn

by Blair Golson
Sep. 26th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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Senator Hilary Clinton had just spent several hours on Friday, Sept.  read more »

Runway Rubber-Necking

by Noelle Hancock, Blair Golson and Ben Smith
Sep. 19th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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Out on the edges of the solar system, far from the orbiting paths of Jupiter and Neptune, in the icy  read more »

Spending Proves Taxing

by Noelle Hancock, Sara Vilkomerson, George Gurley, Blair Golson, Gabriel Sherman, Ben Smith and Shazia Ahmad
Sep. 5th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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A deathly silence reigned in most of the city's high-end stores this week-except for the occasional  read more »

No Bush At Zero: President Steers Clear Of The Site

by Blair Golson
Aug. 15th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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There will be no formally sanctioned commemorations at the site of the former World Trade Center dur  read more »

Mobs Storm Moore As Tempers Boil To High Fahrenheit

by Gabriel Sherman, Ben Smith, Blair Golson, Tom Scocca, Elizabeth Widdicombe and Rachel Donadio
Aug. 1st, 2004, 7:00 pm
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On the afternoon of July 27, Michael Moore arrived at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on a leafy street  read more »

Mobs Storm Moore As Tempers Boil To High Fahrenheit

by Gabriel Sherman, Ben Smith, Blair Golson, Tom Scocca, Elizabeth Widdicombe and Rachel Donadio
Jul. 25th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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On the afternoon of July 27, Michael Moore arrived at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on a leafy street  read more »

Less Than Zero: The Libeskinds Sue Silverstein

by Blair Golson
Jul. 18th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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A mere 10 days after Governor George Pataki presided over an optimistic and buoyant ceremony to lay  read more »

Block Those Jets! Will Silver Play or Punt on Park?

by Blair Golson
Jun. 13th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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On Wednesday, June 16, New York Jets owner Robert Wood Johnson IV is scheduled to give a speech at t  read more »

Silverstein Irks Those Libeskinds On Tower's Fees

by Blair Golson
Jun. 6th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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On June 2, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation will formally adopt plans for rebuilding at G  read more »

Kalikow waiting for $1.2 Billion M.T.A. olympiad

by Blair Golson
May. 23rd, 2004, 7:00 pm
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There was little surprise when New York was selected on May 18 as one of five finalist cities in the  read more »

Touchdown, Nieporent! Chez Jets In Deals With Four-Star Chefs

by Blair Golson
May. 16th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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If the New York Jets, a lunch-bucket football team if ever there was one, return to the city of thei  read more »

Is Silverstein Down to One At Zero Site?

by Blair Golson
May. 9th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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The rebuilding process at Ground Zero had churned forward for months-internecine bureaucratic and ar  read more »

Dr. Peak Woo's 'Throatox' Shot Gives Voice Lift

by Blair Golson
May. 2nd, 2004, 7:00 pm
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Has your voice turned a bit raspy over the years?  read more »

Park Frozen As City Trucks Blockade Pier

by Blair Golson
Apr. 11th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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Park advocates are charging that the city's Sanitation Department is unlawfully squatting on a West  read more »

Our Beloved Alfonse Is Back, Lobbying To Block Stadium

by Blair Golson
Apr. 4th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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The Dolan family, the dynasty that owns Cablevision and Madison Square Garden, has hired a small arm  read more »

Jets' Offensive Geared TowardP.R. Conversion

by Blair Golson
Mar. 21st, 2004, 7:00 pm
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Speaking to a packed ballroom of droopy-eyed business leaders in the New York Hilton on Mar.  read more »

Jets Get Museum If City Gridiron Rises On 33rd St.

by Blair Golson
Mar. 14th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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On the latest act of the mayor's West Side development drama, the New York Jets are pursuing talks w  read more »

Ground Zero Guy Demands Control, Readies A Battle

by Blair Golson
Mar. 7th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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Ground Zero memorial designer Michael Arad is pushing to gain total control of the project's $350 mi  read more »

City Hall Seeking Brand-New Avenue Between 10th, 11th

by Blair Golson
Feb. 15th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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Lost in the brouhaha over the Jets stadium and the Bloomberg administration's plan for a revitalized  read more »

Jets Owners Say: If We Get Stadium, No Rock Concerts

by Blair Golson
Feb. 1st, 2004, 7:00 pm
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About two weeks before Christmas, state officials dropped a present down Charles Dolan's chimney at  read more »

Silverstein Vows Towers To Meet Slew Of Checks

by Blair Golson
Jan. 25th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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In an effort to reassure the public that new buildings at the World Trade Center site will meet gove  read more »

LMDC Jurors Like Two Sunken Pools At Ground Zero

by Blair Golson
Jan. 11th, 2004, 7:00 pm
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An architect who lives in the East Village and works for the city Housing Authority has won the comp  read more »

Oddest Couple Splices Into One At Ground Zero

by Blair Golson
Dec. 21st, 2003, 7:00 pm
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When Governor George Pataki unveils the design plans for the Freedom Tower at Ground Zero on Dec.  read more »

Power Punk: Richard Welch

by Blair Golson
Dec. 14th, 2003, 7:00 pm
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Lanky Brit Ogilvy and Mather trend-spotter; threw best party in London; commands international netwo  read more »

Power Punk: Adam Hochfelder

by Blair Golson
Dec. 14th, 2003, 7:00 pm
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Mad Max Capital: from atop Harry Helmsley's building, young real-estate baron buys and builds Manhat  read more »

Two Architects Whip Up Tower In Mad Frenzy

by Blair Golson
Nov. 30th, 2003, 7:00 pm
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The signature tower of the rebuilt World Trade Center is taking shape, and not a moment too soon.  read more »

Times' New Tower Seeks $150 Million In Liberty Bonds

by Blair Golson
Nov. 16th, 2003, 7:00 pm
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State officials are privately throwing cold water on The New York Times ' plan to build an $850 mill  read more »

Fugasy Battles Durst, City Style Over Upstate Development

by Blair Golson
Nov. 9th, 2003, 7:00 pm
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"Get ready for a fucking war," Bill Fugazy told Douglas Durst on the phone three weeks ago.The two p  read more »

CNN Blows!

by Alexandra Wolfe, Jake Brooks, Anna Jane Grossman, Beth Broome, Elon R. Green, Blair Golson and Shazia Ahmad
Nov. 2nd, 2003, 7:00 pm
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Early in October, thousands of frat boys e-mailed what looked like a CNN.com Web page to thousands m  read more »

Imus Unloads

by Gabriel Sherman and Blair Golson
Oct. 26th, 2003, 7:00 pm
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Morning-radio czar Don Imus has just put his eight-room duplex penthouse co-op at 75 Central Park We  read more »

Cry Me a River

by Gabriel Sherman and Blair Golson
Oct. 19th, 2003, 7:00 pm
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Producer Marty Richards won over Oscar judges last year and claimed Best Picture honors for his scre  read more »

Kay Street

by Blair Golson
Oct. 12th, 2003, 7:00 pm
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Kay LeRoy is spreading her wings. Again.Ms.  read more »

White Elephants Crash

by Blair Golson
Oct. 12th, 2003, 7:00 pm
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When Woody Allen put his massive East 92nd Street townhouse on the market for the ungodly sum of $27  read more »

That's a Wrap!

by Blair Golson
Oct. 5th, 2003, 7:00 pm
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Miramax co-chairman Bob Weinstein is looking to cash out of East 66th Street-less than two years aft  read more »
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