Almost every day for the past year and a half, I've found myself taking a limited bus down an East Side avenue, and then, a few hours and frustrations later, taking it back uptown on the adjoining avenue.
And then, to my shock — I expected to be eased into the pool, inch by inch — he had me pull out into the street and make a left turn on the adjoining avenue, and there I was — at rush hour on the Upper East Side, heading north among impatient taxicabs, doing what I suppose was a steady, frightened fifteen miles an hour, while the world roared and bleated around me, speeding past our little car.
The property of plaintiffs in error adjoins Wilshire avenue, a main artery of travel through and beyond the city, and if such property were available for business purposes its market value would be greatly enhanced.
Mr. Speyer, the chairman of Tishman Speyer Properties, is buying a trophy of a different kind in Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, two adjoining complexes on First Avenue between 14th and 23rd Streets.
Mr. Speyer, the chief executive of Tishman Speyer Properties, and his partner, the BlackRock investment bank, outmaneuvered more than a half-dozen other bidders, including a group aligned with tenants who had hoped to preserve the two adjoining complexes on First Avenue between 14th and 23rd Streets as enclaves of middle-class housing.
Chelsea House, 707 Truman Avenue, (800) 845-8859, fax (305) 296-4822, www.chelseahousekw.com, and Red Rooster Inn, 709 Truman Avenue, (800) 845-0825, fax (305) 296-4822, www.redroosterinn.com, are adjoining mansion-hotels sharing a pool, sun decks and tropical gardens, but retaining quite different atmospheres (and prices).
Photo: A firefighter tried to cut a hole in the roof of one of three adjoining houses hit by fire on Roseville Avenue in Newark yesterday morning.
Twenty-four apartments in an adjoining building at 270 St. Nicholas Avenue were evacuated on Tuesday, and a neighboring church, the Soul Saving Station, has been closed temporarily.
From A$900£38080) a week Located in adjoining Victorian terraces on a quiet, leafy avenue in Darlinghurst, the Chelsea Guesthouse offers stylish rooms, decent service and rates that won't give you a heart attack.
The New 42nd Street, which has a budget of $8.5 million, negotiated a 99-year lease with the city and the state for seven theaters (among a total of nine on the block) built in the early 1900's and some adjoining properties on 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues for which it pays $10 a year, what Ms. Cahan called "a negative dowry".
