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Long-awaited Inwood park opens
Rendering of Muscota Marsh at West 218th Street and Indian Road in Inwood Columbia University finally opened a promised marshland sanctuary after construction was delayed by Hurricane Sandy. The Inwood...
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Tenants at LeFrak-owned building mull suits over repairs, heat
100 Gateway Plaza and Richard LeFrak Tenants of Gateway Plaza in Battery Park City are weighing the possibilities of a lawsuit or rent strike over the lack of repairs, including several broken heating...
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Cuomo met with Moreland before subpoenas were issued
From left: Moreland Commission Executive Director Regina Calcaterra and Co-Chair William Fitzpatrick A Governor Cuomo-appointed panel charged with investigating corruption at the state level met with...
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Mortgage payouts slice banks’ bottom lines in Q4
Bank of America and Morgan Stanley The fourth quarter of 2013 was a rough one for many of the country’s biggest banks, thanks to lingering litigation, the payouts for which took a bite out of the...
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Office, retail borrowers to face refinancing woes
Retailers looking to refinance in New York City could have a hard time over the next few years, thanks to a flood of commercial mortgages due to mature that lenders will need to refinance. Commercial...
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How to revitalize city housing: OPINION
Queensbridge Houses, Long Island City Revitalizing the New York City Housing Authority’s aging infrastructure is a daunting task, but indisputably important. Crain’s Leonard Grunstein argues in a...
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Tour the newly revamped $88M Meadowlands grandstand
The new Meadowlands Grandstand After a year and a half and $88 million dollars, the new grandstand at the Meadowlands Racetrack — in the same complex as the home of Superbowl XLVIII — opened in...
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Laurence Gluck and partner Robert Rosania cut ties
Riverton Houses at 2156 Madison Avenue and Laurence Gluck Stellar Management founder Laurence Gluck is in talks to buy out his longtime investment partner in several New York City properties, Robert...
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When to renovate a rental, luxury church-to-residential conversions around...
A rose window in a church conversion 1. Luxury church-to-residential conversions around the world: PHOTOS [BuzzBuzzHome] 2. Only in New York: when to renovate a rental [NYT] 3. Queens tenant injured in...
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Chris Christie’s deputy denies collusion with developer
N.J. Governor Christie and Lieutenant Governor Guadagno New Jersey’s lieutenant governor, Kim Guadagno, denied she withheld hurricane aid to Hoboken, N.J., to pressure Mayor Dawn Zimmer to approve a...
View ArticleREBNY gala crowd giddy over strong market, concerned about taxes: PHOTOS
UPDATED, 5:30 p.m., January 20: The Real Estate Board of New York’s annual gala logged its best turnout in years on January 16 and the crowd’s mood, often seen as a barometer for the health of the...
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Brooklyn deputy beep pushes to keep Pfizer property industrial
The site on Wallabout Street and Harrison Avenue Brooklyn’s newly appointed deputy borough president is pushing to have a Williamsburg industrial property declared part of an “Industrial Business...
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Jones Lang LaSalle names Greg O’Brien CEO of the Americas
Greg O’Brien and John Gates Chicago-based commercial real estate brokerage Jones Lang LaSalle has appointed Greg O’Brien, previously head of the firm’s brokerage division, new CEO of the Americas,...
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Car slams into Bond NY’s Upper East Side office
From left: Noah Freedman and 1500 Second Avenue Bond New York’s Upper East Side office had an unwelcome visitor Monday afternoon, as an automobile ran over the sidewalk and slammed into the brokerage’s...
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Landmarks votes down Queens aluminum house project
Computer rendering of Aluminaire House at 50th Street and 39th Avenue in Queens (Inset: Jimmy Van Bramer) The Landmarks Preservation Commission rejected a plan late last week to relocate the so-called...
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Big-name buyers opt for small luxury buildings
From left: Exterior of 18 Gramercy Park, rendering of a unit More high-end buyers in New York City are opting to live in buildings with fewer — but spacious — units, according to agents and developers....
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Seagram heir’s charity moves to 445 Park Avenue
445 Park Avenue and Charles Bronfman A charity led by Charles Bronfman, billionaire and former co-chairman of gin purveyor Seagram, signed a lease for 6,413 square feet of office space at 445 Park...
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Another co-op sued for barring “working” dogs
From left: Cove Club in Battery City Park, East River Housing Corporation at 475 FDR Drive A second lawsuit has been filed against a co-op for barring tenants from keeping emotional support dogs in...
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Vornado to sell 1 Park Avenue for $650M: report
Vornado’s Michael Fascitelli and 1 Park Avenue Vornado Realty Trust is asking roughly $650 million for its 20-story office tower at 1 Park Avenue, Bloomberg News reported, citing unnamed sources. Adam...
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Real Capital Analytics signs for last space at 110 Fifth Avenue
From left: Cassidy Turley’s Adam Ardise, 110 Fifth Avenue and Real Capital Analytics’ Robert White An 11-story Beaux-Arts office tower owned by Rabina Properties and Samson Management has reached full...
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