The art business took over a neighborhood on the Far West Side of Manhattan previously known as Gasoline Alley. Then the city turned the area into a ‘monument to real estate developers.’
A fight over the fate of the Elizabeth Street Garden, and whether to build affordable housing for older people there, has gone on for more than 10 years.
The rooftop of a historic building is the focus of a renovation skirmish between Federico Pignatelli, a financier, and Ray Dalio, the hedge-fund mogul.