Tom Topousis
The Archive
Nation hails lame ducks
More than three-quarters of Americans gave the lame-duck Congress high marks for working together last month after nearly two years of hard-headed partisan battles, a new ABC/Yahoo News poll found....
West Side war over landmarks
A battle of historic dimensions is brewing on the Upper West Side. The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission is considering a proposal that would extend protection to an additional 790 buildings...
Big stall in bldg. jobs
Signs of an economic recovery may be showing up in department-store aisles, but they've yet to be seen on construction projects around the city, where the number of stalled building...
Catholic League counters atheist billboard
Take that, atheists. New York Catholics, furious about an atheist-sponsored billboard calling Christmas "a myth," lashed out with a counter-attack today — a billboard of their own that defends the...
Airlines taking off again
After two bruising years, the airline industry is beginning to take flight again, according to a new survey that found passengers are flying more often and are more likely to...
Rezoning in on new Jamaica
After rezoning enormous swaths of the city, the Bloomberg administration has set its sights on its biggest effort ever: a 530-block section of Jamaica where residents say their neighborhood of...
La G plane-ly worst airport
Fioriello La Guardia must be turning over in his grave. The airport named in honor of New York's most popular mayor ranked last on the 2010 Zagat survey of 30...
Hill & China in N. Korea talks
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reached out to North Korea's chief ally, China, yesterday as leaders in Pyongyang launched a new round of saber rattling over this weekend's planned...
Foreclosures leave SI street in shambles
The rampage of foreclosures that ripped through a small slice of Staten Island two years ago may be over, but it left behind a street littered with boarded-up homes, for-sale...
Posh Choate boots 'mean girls'
A group of catty teens at ultra-prep school Choate Rosemary Hall have been either expelled or suspended over a Facebook version of a "burn book" that ripped their classmates and...
GZ mosque in 9/11 cash grab
The developers behind a controversial bid to build a mosque and Islamic center at Ground Zero have upped the ante in their audacious effort by applying for $5 million in...
Get a whiff of 'poop power'
Waste not want not is the city’s new strategy on a potential treasure trove of untapped energy bubbling up at sewage treatment plants. With energy-laden gases routinely spilling out of...
Snubbed NYU architects are no Pei pals
NYU is backing out of a controversial plan to add a 38-story tower to a landmarked complex of three high-rises after world-renown architect I.M. Pei signaled that he would flunk...
NYU backs off plan to add tower to landmark
NYU is backing out of a controversial plan to add a 38-story tower to a landmarked complex of three high-rises after world-renown architect I.M. Pei signalled that he would flunk...
It's raging 'pull': De Niro hotel project OK'd
It was the Landmarks Preservation Commission that did all the talking to Robert De Niro yesterday. After more than two years of haggling between the Oscar-winning actor and the commission,...
De Niro gets green light for TriBeCa penthouse
It was the Landmarks Preservation Commission that did all the talking to Robert De Niro today. After more than two years of haggling between the Oscar-winning actor and the commission,...
Sting 'fixes' con-tractors
An undercover city sting nailed a dozen shady contractors caught peddling their services without a license to make home repairs. This time, it was the investigators who put the screws...
9/11 memorial's fountains flow
The rebirth of the World Trade Center took a spectacular turn yesterday when one of the memorial's two massive fountains roared to life for the first time. "It was absolutely...
Newest pier just beachy
It's California on the Hudson. Hudson River Park's newest pier -- opening Friday and stretching 1,000 feet into the river -- adds a West Coast flair to the Big Apple...
Swath of Queens landmarked
Queens was treated like a king yesterday when more than 200 of the borough's buildings were added to the city's landmark roster, and another 900 were nominated. While Queens had...