International Business News - Waterfront http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Gloria Weiss was living in a small SoHo apartment in the 1980s when one of her young students told her that he lived on a boat. The teacher wasn't quite sure whether or not to believe him, so she decided to accept an invitation to check it out for herself. "I went to their boat and said, 'This is amazing, I could live here,'" recalled Weiss. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/88519-on-the-waterfront.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/for-some-waterfront-nyc-living-means-a-houseboat.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/for-some-waterfront-nyc-living-means-a-houseboat.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:54:56 EDT A week after one deal collapsed, city officials announced Monday that a another developer has been chosen to build a new commercial and residential center over a stretch of forlorn railyards near the Hudson River. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080519/developer-chosen-for-nycs-west-side-railyards.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 15:49:35 EDT The transit agency that owns 26 acres of prime real estate on Manhattan's far West Side reopened conversations Tuesday with other developers after last-ditch talks failed to resurrect a deal with builder Tishman Speyer Properties. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080513/mta-talks-with-other-developers-about-west-side.htm Tue, 13 May 2008 19:06:37 EDT The transit agency that owns 26 acres of prime real estate on Manhattan's far West Side reopened conversations Tuesday with other developers after last-ditch talks failed to resurrect a deal with builder Tishman Speyer Properties. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080513/mta-talks-with-other-developers-on-hudson-yards.htm Tue, 13 May 2008 18:49:39 EDT A $1 billion deal to build skyscrapers, apartments and parks over a desolate stretch of rail yards by the Hudson River collapsed due to a zoning "impasse," the rail yards' owner said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080508/1b-deal-in-nyc-to-develop-west-side-rail-yards-collapses.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 21:32:08 EDT A $1 billion deal to build skyscrapers, apartments and parks over rail yards on Manhattan's far West Side appears to have collapsed. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says negotiations to finalize the deal reached six weeks ago with Tishman Speyer Properties "reached an impasse" late Thursday afternoon. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080508/1b-deal-to-develop-far-west-side-rail-yards-collapses.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 19:59:00 EDT The developer that owns Manhattan's Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler Building has been chosen to transform a desolate neighborhood along the Hudson River into a new business district of office towers, apartments and parks. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080326/developer-wins-nyc-waterfront-project.htm Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:08:27 EDT