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Regulator: Fannie, Freddie can save $1.7B
Crain's New York Business
Apr 10(Bloomberg) - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could save $1.7 billion if they forgave principal on some troubled mortgages, the companies' regulator said Tuesday in a Washington speech citing a preliminary analysis. The Federal Housing Finance Agency isn't ... »
Watson May Cut $7B Generics Deal For Actavis: Report
TheStreet
Mar 21NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Watson Pharmaceuticals is in talks to buy Swiss generic drug maker Actavis for roughly $7 billion, according to reports published by Reuters. For Watson Pharmaceuticals, a top global maker of generic drugs, the acquisition is ex... »
$7B Ponzi scheme architect Stanford found guilty on 13 charges
New York Post
Mar 06HOUSTON -- A federal jury on Tuesday convicted international financier R. Allen Stanford on 13 of 14 charges of money laundering and fraud in a Ponzi scheme that lost billions of dollars for investors. The jury of eight men and four women found him not... »
BP’s $7B deal on Gulf disaster
New York Post
Mar 03Bp agreed late yesterday to settle lawsuits brought by more than 100,000 fishermen who lost work, cleanup workers who got sick and others who claimed the were harm in the oil giant’s 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster, the worst offshore oil spill in the nat... »
Vestar’s $3.7B fund a tough sell
New York Post
Mar 02While the equity markets and US economy slowly recover from the Great Recession, one of the country’s oldest private-equity firms is experiencing a tough stretch.Vestar Capital Partners, which in March 2011 led a headline-grabbing $5.3 billion buyout o... »
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City issues Stop Work Permit for sidewalk shed on Seventh Street and Avenue B
EV Grieve
Apr 03After reading our post on the sidewalk shed outside Vazac's/7B, Councilmember Rosie Mendez's office contacted the Department of Buildings to have a look. A Mendez aide told us that by the end of the day yesterday, the DOB inspected the site and issued ... »
A sidewalk shed arrives outside Vazac's
EV Grieve
Apr 02On Friday evening, workers arrived to start putting up a sidewalk shed around the perimeter of the Horseshoe Bar/Vazac's/7B here on the corner of Seventh Street and Avenue B... There aren't any permits on file via the DOB website just yet... so we don'... »
My buddy @xtianbovine rocking a @NYCosmos sick kit for St Paddys...
the teenorama
Mar 17My buddy @xtianbovine rocking a @NYCosmos sick kit for St Paddys (Taken with Instagram at Vazacs Horseshoe Bar / 7B) »
Condo President-for-Life by Mike Sacks and Teddy Wayne
Dispatches From Civil War Reenactments
Mar 14It is with bottomless grief and unquenchable sorrow that I announce the following: My dear father, the noble Mr. Anthony Walsh, beloved president of this condominium building for more than twenty-five years, friend to all, savior to many, has passed aw... »
With ‘Person of Interest’ at 7B, All the East Village Is a Stage
The Local East Village
Feb 16Daniel Maurer Just a few blocks over from East Ninth Street between First Avenue and Avenue A, where crews were prepping the block for its Coen brothers moment this morning (flyers indicate that, due to weather, the date of the shoot has changed to Fri... »