Oct 16, New York

The controversial Trump Soho condo-hotel at Spring and Varick Sts. is expected to open in February, nearly four years after developers first announced the ambitious high-rise project. The glass-paneled, 42-story building — which has weathered protests from neighborhood preservationists over its size and operation, lawsuits from local civic organizations and the death of a construction worker at the site in early 2007...more