SL Green picks up Stonehenge’s Olivia for $386M
From left: Ofer Yardeni and 315 West 33rd Street SL Green Realty has agreed to purchase the Olivia, a 333-unit apartment tower at 315 West 33rd Street, from Stonehenge Partners for $386 million,...
View ArticleWashington Heights renter prevails in “game changer” case
810 West 183rd Street Law firm Kucker & Bruh will have to cough up $22,000 to an 82-year-old Washington Heights tenant, who claimed the firm launched a bogus eviction case against him on behalf of...
View Article$50M in NYCHA funds for repairs, security upgrades tied up
NYCHA’s Baruch Houses at 300 Delancey Street The New York City Housing Authority held up millions of dollars in taxpayer money allotted to repair its old developments and to install new security...
View ArticleShake Shack plants a flag in Dumbo with Two Trees lease
From left: Danny Meyer and 1 Old Fulton Street Danny Meyer’s Shake Shack will open a new location a stone’s throw from Brooklyn Bridge Park at 1 Old Fulton Street in Dumbo in mid-2014, Crain’s...
View ArticleEastern Consolidated wants $1M from broker who allegedly sent dirty video to...
The commercial brokerage firm Eastern Consolidated sued former agent Robert Khodadadian, claiming he sent a sexually explicit video to an intern, violating company policy. The Midtown firm is seeking...
View Article250 West generates $313M in sales, tops new dev list: PHOTOS
The story of a new development is often as follows: a project hits the market with a splashy ad campaign; a drawn out process of finding qualified buyers and signing contracts ensues; and closings...
View ArticleBronx’s first boutique hotel opens its doors
436 East 149th Street The Bronx now has a brand new luxury hotel to call its own, the local blog Welcome2TheBronx reported. The Opera House Hotel, so named because of its previous incarnation as a...
View ArticleNYC’s Fifth Avenue ranks second in retail rents worldwide
From left: Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district and 767 Fifth Avenue That setting up shop along prime Fifth Avenue requires deep pockets is no secret, but the glittering Manhattan strip remains...
View ArticleWestbrook Partners to launch 72K sf Wburg project
From left: IBI’s Scott Stewart and David Thom Westbrook Partners has proposed a new 95-unit development for 223 North 8th Street in Williamsburg, BuzzBuzz Home reported. The new development, designed...
View ArticleBialystoker Nursing Home inches closer to landmark status
From left: 228 East Broadway and the LPC’s Robert Tierney The battle to secure landmark status for the Bialystoker Nursing Home on the Lower East Side is drawing ever closer to a resolution, the...
View ArticleDay in the life of: Peter Hennessy
Peter Hennessy From the August issue: 4:45 a.m. I get up at 4:45 at my house in Bedford, N.Y., and take my two dogs for a walk before I do anything else. We have an English Springer Spaniel named...
View ArticleDmitry Rybolovlev buys Will Smith’s $20M pad allegedly to stash cash from...
Hidden Valley Castle in Cornwall, Conn. 1. Decrepit Harlem townhouse, at 2064 Fifth Avenue, boldly asks $3.5 million [Curbed] 2. Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev buys Will Smith’s $20 million Hawaii home...
View ArticleWilliamsburg multi-acre site gets bids $70M below ask
From left: 462-490 Kent Avenue and Gabriel Saffioti A 3.75-acre industrial site in South Williamsburg that has been approved for residential development premiered three months ago asking $210 million –...
View ArticleJamestown to nab stake in massive Sunset Park industrial site
882 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn Chelsea Market owner Jamestown Properties is on the brink of acquiring a stake in an industrial warehouse complex in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, Crain’s reported. Jamestown, which...
View ArticleRuben pays $210M for 600 Madison Ave.
Richard Ruben and 600 Madison Avenue Investors affiliated with Ruben Companies, a New York City-based real estate investment and development firm, have paid $210 million for an office building at 600...
View ArticleNYC unaffordability map reveals a few pricey surprises
A dynamic map of median home sales (Source: Property Shark) Stratospheric prices in Nolita are hardly news these days, but a new dynamic map detailing the median home sales price of New York City digs...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble ex-chairman drops bid for retail locations
From left: 33 East 17th Street and 2289 Broadway Barnes & Noble, which has numerous locations throughout the five boroughs, lost former Chairman Leonard Riggio’s bid for the company’s retail...
View ArticleDevelopers circle like “vultures” over Chelsea women’s prison
550 West 20th Street Bayview Correctional Facility, a women’s prison that has been operational since 1974, will be officially shuttered as part of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 2013-14 state budget. The...
View ArticleGotham West welcomes tenants to far West Side
550 West 45th Street Some tenants are already moving into Gotham West, the Gotham Organization’s mass of apartments along 11th Avenue in the upper 40′s and 50′s, which came onto the market with a...
View ArticleExtell sells three condos at Int’l Gem Tower for $51.2M
A rendering of the International Gem Tower located at 50 West 47th Street and Gary Barnett Gary Barnett’s Extell Development has closed on a deal with the Gemological Institute of America to purchase...
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