Foreign Investment Drives Housing Booms in San Fran, NYC Listen Download Embed Share Share this on Facebook (Opens in a new window) Share this on Twitter (Opens in a new window) Share this via Email An excavator removes earth from the site where Brookfield Office Properties Inc.'s residential building, 3 Manhattan West, will be built. November 18, 2014 ( Michael Nagle/Bloomberg / Getty ) Produced by Jillian Weinberger Produced by PRI and WNYC