Washington Square Park hot dog vendors get another chance to stay, a look at...
84-A Bayview Drive on the Jersey Shore 1. City Department of Parks and Recreation ponders fate of Washington Square Park hot dog vendors [NYP] 2. Workshop/APD rework stacked 1970s lofts into Printing...
View ArticleGeneral Growth asks $6M for planned J.C. Penney space
From left: 200 Lafayette Street and GGP’s Sandeep Mathrani Retail landlord General Growth Properties listed approximately 30,000 square feet of retail space at 200 Lafayette Street in Soho with an...
View ArticleForest City Ratner misled foreign investors: Watchdog
From left: Rendering of Atlantic Yards (Credit: SHoP) and a U.S. visa Cause of Action, a watchdog group, has accused Forest City Ratner of misrepresenting the risk to foreign investors of backing its...
View Article40 Broad partnership sells office condos, doubling profits
From left: Joseph Stettinius and 40 Broad Street A partnership between Declaration Management and brokerage Cassidy Turley has sold a pair of office condominiums at 40 Broad Street for more than twice...
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Top stories yesterday on The Real Deal: 1. TRD’s updates from ICSC New York: live blog 2. Real estate’s biggest feuds 3. Buildings with dangerously few sales
View ArticleTRD’s updates from ICSC New York: live blog
From left: Brandon Singer, Joanne Podell and Ian Lerner, all of Cushman & Wakefield Watch this space for live updates from the International Council of Shopping Centers New York National...
View ArticleWest Village resident plans Clean Air suit to halt 150 Charles
150 Charles rendering and Steve Witkoff A year after 11 West Village residents filed a lawsuit over alleged zoning improprieties to halt the construction of 150 Charles Street, more are joining the...
View ArticleDealmaking from the floor at ICSC: PHOTOS
Brokers and dealmakers said they felt a greater intensity at this year’s International Council of Shopping Centers annual New York National Conference, held yesterday and today at the New York Hilton...
View ArticleAnxiety over de Blasio is ‘overblown’: SL Green chairman
One Vanderbilt rendering and Stephen Green SL Green Realty Chairman Stephen Green addressed business owners’ anxieties yesterday over the incoming administration of Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio, calling...
View ArticleWhat Whole Foods means for gritty Gowanus, Astoria development site trades...
Gingerbread house at the Fairmont hotel in San Francisco (Credit: Houzz via Curbed) 1. What Whole Foods’ arrival could mean for gritty Gowanus [WSJ] 2. Queens developer buys Astoria lot at 37-21 32nd...
View ArticleCity housing authority moves to evict centenarian
61 Pike Street The New York City Housing Authority wants to evict a 100-year-old resident of the Lower East Side housing project Rutgers Houses, alleging that her son unlawfully moved into her unit....
View ArticleHalf of tenants nationally overspend on rent: Harvard study
Half of all renters in the U.S. spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing, according to a study released today from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. Fifty-three...
View ArticleGrading the new guys
From left: James Wacht and Peter Braus of Lee & Associates From the December issue: Building a commercial brokerage business in New York City is a slow, patient game. Success, real estate...
View ArticleAtlantic Yards valued less than Forest City projected
Atlantic Yards rendering and David LaRue The $500 million that Forest City Ratner invested in their Atlantic Yards megaproject in Brooklyn may be worth less than half that amount, according to a filing...
View ArticleMajor League Soccer team to build $400M Bronx stadium
Manchester’s Ferran Soriano and aerial shot of Yankee Stadium and its parking lots A new Major League Soccer team called the New York City Football Club is close to signing a deal with GAL...
View ArticleDe Blasio making “temporary” move to Gracie Mansion
Gracie Mansion at East End Avenue and 88th Street Despite earlier concerns about his son’s high school commute, Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has committed to moving into Hizzoner’s official residence,...
View ArticleMost US homebuyers believe super-low mortgage rates normal
Redfin data on Americans’ perceptions of home loan rates A staggering 83 percent of American homebuyers consider a “normal” rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage loan to be under 5 percent, new data...
View ArticleChloe Sevigny buys Park Slope co-op for $2M
9 Prospect Park West and Chloe Sevigny Actress Chloe Sevigny — known for “Boys Don’t Cry,” “American Psycho” and other envelope-pushing fare — picked up a three-bedroom co-op at 9 Prospect Park West in...
View ArticleSutton, Givenchy revealed as 747 Madison buyer and tenant
From left: 747 Madison Avenue, Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy’s famous LBD in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” Jeff Sutton has been unmasked as the buyer of the remaining 33.3 percent stake in the retail co-op at...
View ArticleCity Council greenlights Greenpoint Landing
From left: Renderings of the Domino Sugar and Greenpoint Landing developments Bloomberg-era development projects are moving right along, with Two Trees Management’s Domino Sugar proposal getting the...
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