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SL Green woos office tenants with rooftop bocce
A rendering of the rooftop bocce court at 635 Avenue of the Americas From the February issue: Bocce could be the best thing to hit workplace socializing since the water cooler. [more]
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Marketing Directors tapped to handle 50 West Street sales
50 West Street and Francis Greenburger Time Equities has tapped the Marketing Directors to handle sales and marketing for Francis Greenburger’s resurgent 50 West Street, the developer’s 63-story luxury...
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Is winter weather holding back the New York City real estate market? NYC...
Flag designed by Robert A.M. Stern 1. Is winter weather holding back the New York City real estate market? [NYO] 2. NYC starchitects Richard Meier, Robert Stern reimagine NYC’s flag [NYT] 3. The old...
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Bevmax leases 15,000 square feet at 485 Madison
From left: Colliers’ Michael Cohen and 485 Madison Avenue Bevmax Office Centers, an office space provider currently based at 75 Rockefeller Plaza, has inked a 10-year deal for more than 15,000 square...
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Writer Toni Morrison picks up $3.8M Tribeca pad
From left: Toni Morrison and 66 Leonard Street Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison picked up a three-bedroom condominium at Tessler Development’s 66 Leonard Street. The...
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State regulators halt $39B mortgage servicing rights transfer
Ocwen’s Ronald Faris The New York State Department of Financial Services has stopped the transfer of mortgage servicing rights from Wells Fargo to Ocwen Financial, reportedly over concerns about the...
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Herrick Feinstein star to head BakerHostetler’s NY practice
From left: Dennis Russo and development site at 30th Street and 10th Avenue in Hudson Yards Real estate lawyer-turned-developer Dennis Russo has been tapped to head up BakerHostetler’s New York real...
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Finally, a UES building that stands out: Architecture review
rendering of Moise Safra Community Center The Upper East Side could almost be defined as that part of New York where nothing much seems to happen architecturally, particularly from Lexington Avenue...
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Murray Hill co-op building could fetch $100M
From left: Robert Knakal, 303 East 37th Street (Photo credit: PropertyShark) and Marcy Kornblum The board that leads the residential cooperative at 303 East 37th Street in Murray Hill is testing the...
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Ashkenazy to scoop up Philip House retail condos
1311-1327 Lexington Avenue (Inset: Glenn Tolchin and Dan Levy) Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation is set to close tomorrow on the retail space at the base of the Cheshire Group’s Philip House in...
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Central Park West manse chopped again, down to $30M
From left: An exterior image and interior shots of 247 Central Park West A mansion at 247 Central Park West has once again seen its asking price tumble, this time to $29.95 million. Ukrainian...
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Priciest, cheapest listings to hit Manhattan this week
From left: 247 Central Park West and 235 West 102nd Street Leslie J. Garfield & Co.’s Matthew Lesser and Richard Pretsfelder had the priciest single-family residential listing to hit the Manhattan...
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Elliman nabs first LA exclusive
Rendering of Metropolis Los Angeles (Inset: Elliman’s Howard Lorber) Not long after signing a lease for a Beverly Hills, Calif., office, Manhattan’s largest brokerage, Douglas Elliman, has been hired...
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Ratner yanks big event at Barclays due to planned protests
Bruce Ratner and the Barclay’s Center arena Barclay’s Center builder Forest City Ratner has informed LandlordsNY, an organization comprising property owners and managers, that it can no longer host its...
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Long Island College Hospital woes could gore SUNY Downstate
From left: 450 Clarkson Avenue and 339 Hicks Street Faltering attempts to close, sell and revamp the site of Brooklyn’s troubled Long Island College Hospital could pull the state’s flagship Brooklyn...
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Brokers’ polar vortex plan of attack
Union Square in the snow Despite winter weather’s tendency to shutter offices and cripple public transit, a few flakes can actually be a boon to well-prepared brokers and sellers. Bad weather’s biggest...
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Carl Weisbrod to head City Planning under de Blasio
From left: Carl Weisbrod and Mayor Bill de Blasio Mayor Bill de Blasio tapped veteran real estate executive Carl Weisbrod to take the reins of the City Planning Commission, appointing him chairman...
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Megalith plans 105-unit Dumbo rental – with parking
From left: Front Street in Dumbo and Samvir Sidhu Developer Megalith Capital Management plans to build a 105-unit residential rental building at a plot it bought last year for $30.6 million from the...
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Diet doc wife’s Time Warner Center pad on sale for $24M
From left: Time Warner Center, Unit 74C A luxury apartment once owned by Veronica Atkins — the wife of the late nutritionist Dr. Robert Atkins — located on one of Time Warner Center’s top floors was...
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Judge reverses DOS bid to revoke licenses of MMJ founders
From left: Jeffrey Jackson, Steven Knobel and Terrence Oved In a sharply worded ruling, a Manhattan judge blocked the New York Department of State’s efforts to revoke the licenses of the founders of...
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