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Planet Fitness joins three other gyms in jock-friendly Jamaica
A rendering of 168-50 Jamaica Avenue Downtown Jamaica in Queens is now officially a destination for gym rats: Planet Fitness has inked a lease in a new 36,000-square-foot retail center, making it the...
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840 Park owners hit with $9M wrongful death suit, why startups should think...
840 Park Avenue 1. 840 Park Ave. owners hit with $9M wrongful death suit [NYP] 2. Thor, Taconic jazz up Meatpacking project with art exhibit [DNAinfo] 3. Why startups should think like real estate...
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Move over, Manhattan: Fort Lee, N.J., tapped for luxe project
A rendering of Hudson Lights (Credit: Arquitectonica) Tucker Development Corp., Ares Management and Kushner Real Estate Group are moving ahead with a large retail and residential project in Fort Lee,...
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How to avoid a real estate tug-of-war if you’re headed for divorce court
A house (civilly) divided From Luxury Listings NYC: Divorce can be messy, especially when the couple can’t agree on how to divvy up their valuables — the kids, the cars and, most definitely, the...
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World Trade Center chief hops to Hudson Yards
Hudson Yards rendering (Credit: Philippe Visser) One of the top officials at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey overseeing the World Trade Center redevelopment is switching to a rival...
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Go big and go home: Alfa’s Hershey factory conversion offers full-floor units
From left: Alfa CEO Michael Namer and 117-119 West 21st Street Alfa Developments conversion of a former Hershey factory in Chelsea will offer 10 full-floor units designed by architect William Alicea as...
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Movers & shakers: who’s in and who’s out in NYC real estate
Chagit Sofiev-Leviev and Tom Elliott From the September issue: Tom Elliott has left his post as senior vice president of sales at the Elad Group to take on independent consulting projects. “Once you...
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NYC to announce Seward Park developer tomorrow, trial over heiress Huguette...
Seward Park rendering 1. City to announce developer of Seward Park development on the Lower East Side tomorrow [Lo-Down] 2. Trial over heiress Huguette Clark’s $300 million estate gets pushed amid...
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One Brooklyn Bridge Park’s sprawling retail space up for lease
One Brooklyn Bridge Park A 50,000-square-foot retail space at One Brooklyn Bridge Park, the condominium behemoth on the Brooklyn waterfront, is hitting the leasing market. CPEX, which told The Real...
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Lightstone taps SLCE for 452-unit tower at 120 Fulton Street
120 Fulton Street and Mitchell Hochberg Lightstone Group’s plans for a mixed-use building at 120 Fulton Street are a bit grander than its current incarnation. The developer, which has officially filed...
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Top stories yesterday on The Real Deal: 1. Versace mansion brings $41.5M, will be converted to hotel 2. 650 Fifth Ave. is an Iranian front, judge says 3. Meet the Gen Xers taking over NYC real estate
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Queens City Council hopeful dodged taxes by claiming New Orleans as home
Lynne Serpe It’s a twisted tale of two cities for a City Council hopeful from Astoria, who saved on hundreds of dollars in tax bills by claiming her primary residence to be in New Orleans. Lynne Serpe,...
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The city has tapped L&M Development Partners, BFC Partners, Taconic Investment Partners and Grand Street Settlement to develop the hotly-contested Lower East Side known as the Seward Park Urban...
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Top stories yesterday on The Real Deal: 1. Versace mansion brings $41.5M, will be converted to hotel 2. David Bistricer gets busy 3. Sutton pays Sitt $327M for 530 Broadway
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Feds to seize Iranian-owned 650 Fifth Avenue
Ayatollah Khamenei and 650 Fifth Avenue The federal government has been granted permission to seize 650 Fifth Avenue, a Midtown tower that a New York federal judge previously ruled is a front for...
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Port Authority blasts $10 WTC naming rights deal
One World Trade Center (second from right) The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Wednesday slammed a controversial but decades-old deal to sell the World Trade Center naming rights to a...
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Developer looking to crowdfund $31M for FiDi hotel
Rodrigo Nino and 17 John Street A Manhattan-based developer who has raised $171 million through crowdfunding for a skyscraper project in South America plans to replicate the fundraising strategy for a...
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Jay-Z to get $1.5M for Barclays stake, is Queens the future of urban design?...
Jay-Z performing at the Barclays Center 1. Jay-Z to get $1.5M for Barclays Center stake [Forbes] 2. Why Queens is the future of urban design in NYC [Architizer] 3. NYC’s smallest apartment– yours for a...
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Aby Rosen gets $130M loan to refurbish Paramount Hotel
Aby Rosen’s RFR Realty has secured a $130 million loan on the historic Paramount Building at 1501 Broadway in Times Square. RFR will reposition the 32-story, 782,230-square-foot tower with the funds,...
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Private jets gain traction with NYC’s real estate elite
Architect Ross Adam Cole with his four-seater Mooney From the September issue: New York’s real estate moguls are flying high — and not just because of the fast-moving market. Once prohibitively...
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