Vik Gupta

Vik Gupta

gbNYC Inside Baseball: Farewell to the King (of Interns)

Fri

Dec

Oh, hello. Read anything good about green buildings in New York City lately? Care to share a link? This has admittedly been a slow week here at gbNYC, as your editors have been caught up in pre-holiday stress and strain -- I've primarily been preoccupied trying to get Neckies for everyone on my list -- and the news has admittedly not been flowing at its usual pace. That's not really going to change in this post, but I feel the heroic efforts of our intern, Vik Gupta, deserve a pre-holiday mention, especially as his tenure is coming to an end. The guy did a lot of grunt work (not literally, thankfully) to help get gbNYC back into good health, and he deserves a word of thanks for that.

Times Up: Once a Burgeoning Green Neighborhood, the Times Square Submarket is Struggling

Mon

Nov

by David Roth

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As part of gbNYC's rolling transformation from one platform to another -- WordPress to Drupal, for all you curious nerdz -- we've been having to do a lot of re-tagging of old posts. The reasons for this are both complicated and uninteresting, but it's working: our Google rating is back, for one thing, and things are starting to make sense more generally. There has been an unexpectedly poignant side benefit to all this re-tagging, though, as your author (and super-intern Vik Gupta) have worked our way back to 2007-vintage posts about burgeoning new green developments that were supposedly thisclose to becoming the next big green thing. Vornado's LEED-CS Gold building a 20 Times Square is locking up an anchor tenant! Except... no, it's not, and construction has been halted. CBRE is confident that its LEED Gold 11 Times Square tower is going to do fine, even with an anticipated dip in the market! Except... it isn't.