SL Green loses $133.5 million on Gramercy Capital. [TRD] Hotelier Hank Freid gets more flack over his controversial building conversions. [Gothamist] Brooklyn Bridge Park may go the way of its glitzy condo-and-hotel financing plan. [Curbed] In the gloomiest of times, a gleaming vision for light rail. [CityRoom] The Walentases drop $400,000 on Dumbo lobbyists. [Brooklyn Paper] Beleaguered Greenwich ...

Location: So, one day, the phone rings. It’s Robert De Niro. He wants to build a hotel. Why did he turn to you? Mr. Born: I’ve got to believe that he was very methodical and careful because he actually spent years with this piece of property [the eventual Greenwich Hotel]. I think he liked us because we were ...

Celebrity hotelier Robert De Niro's hugely anticipated and high-priced lodge, the 88-room Greenwich Hotel, officially opens for business today in Tribeca. And talk about excellence in hospitality! A Curbed tipster reports from the scene: there are three staffers outside the hotel, guarding against photographs. OF THE EXTERIOR. I managed to get a few shots, and one through the glass ...

It seems the control freaks running Robert De Niro's new Greenwich Hotel aren't only cracking down on camera-equipped spectators. On opening day, management also kicked out a reviewer for the hospitality industry site Hotel Chatter, abruptly canceling her reservation. And she wasn't even requesting a cheap press rate! To wit: we had a room booked at the ...