Larry Silverstein

Nov 29, 2024 | tribecacitizen.com | Carl Glassman |Jon Pepper |Larry Silverstein |Pascaline Lepeltier

There’s never a year where I am not buying a pile of books for Christmas, and this list includes the latest from local authors as well as ones I go back to year after year for gifts. TRIBECA | FOUR DECADES IN PICTURESBY CARL GLASSMANLongtime Tribecan Carl Glassman has published a book of historic pictures of the neighborhood over — as the title says — the past four decades.

Sep 23, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Larry Silverstein

To the two things nobody wants to see made — sausage and legislation — we should probably add a third: New York real estate deals. Manhattan developer Larry Silverstein, described as famous or infamous depending on who you talk to, signed a 99-year lease on the World Trade Center in July 2001, two months before 9/11. The morning the planes hit, he had a doctor’s appointment and didn’t make it to the Twin Towers for his usual breakfast with clients. It saved his life.

Sep 10, 2024 | nypost.com | Larry Silverstein

In "The Rising: The Twenty-Year Battle to Rebuild the World Trade Center," Larry Silverstein recounts how dealing with the Port Authority over his Four World Trade Center (front right) turned into something like "a scene in a mob movie." Christopher Sadowski In the spring of 2012, more than a decade after the tragedy of 9/11, developer and leaseholder Larry Silverstein was in the home stretch for the completion of Four World Trade Center — after facing safety criticism from the NYPD over its...

Sep 10, 2024 | yahoo.com | Larry Silverstein

In the spring of 2012, more than a decade after the tragedy of 9/11, developer and leaseholder Larry Silverstein was in the home stretch for the completion of Four World Trade Center — after facing safety criticism from the NYPD over its all-glass facade and initial doubts from the Bloomberg administration over being able to fill the building with tenants. But he had one more old, familiar for to face down: The Port Authority, which had been a thorn in his side for much of the construction.