New details are emerging on the shady agreement that led to the $116 million purchase and planned condo conversion of Rivington House.

The city has ordered all work to stop at Rivington House, the Lower East Side property that sold for a $72 million profit after the city mysteriously lifted deed restrictions.
The April 5 stop-work

A senior member of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration was involved in talks with a private nursing-care company about the fate of a Lower East Side health-care facility as far back as 2014, according to emails and people familiar with the matter.

Despite Mayor Bill de Blasio saying he was kept in the dark about the sale of a nursing home to a luxury condo developer, a prominent city agency was inquiring about the Manhattan property more than one year before the final sale, according to emails and…

Mayor de Blasio on Monday dismissed complaints that his legal team stymied a Department of Investigation probe into a shady land deal that was approved by his administration last year.
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The lobbyist for the Rivington House nursing home — who is also a major donor to Mayor de Blasio — asked that restrictions on the property be lifted just 16 days after the administration took

Mayor Bill de Blasio is facing criticism over his relationship with a city lobbyist linked to a potential luxury housing development on the Lower East Side.

The mastermind behind the Rivington House scandal is in trouble again, this time with a lender on a Brooklyn nursing home.

Bill de Blasio, who in April vowed to sue Allure for flipping Rivington House, said that the city's lawyers "cannot find an actual pathway" to restitution.