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Young Woo’s Pier 57 plan clears City Council vote
From left: Young Woo, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and a Pier 57 rendering (courtesy Young Woo & Associates) UPDATED, 5:01 p.m., April 9: The City Council today unanimously approved Young...
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Law firm Lewis Baach signs on at Chrysler Building
Scott Galin and the Chrysler Building Lewis Baach, a Washington D.C.-based law firm, has signed a four-year lease at the Chrysler Building, Crain’s reported. The firm will take 3,867 square feet on the...
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Miron opens its second Union Square office
Office of Miron Properties From the April issue: The fast-growing brokerage Miron Properties is opening a new office, bringing its total number of New York City area outposts to four. But instead of...
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Micro unit plan heads to public review, Rawhide bar on market for $25K/month...
A rendering of New York City’s micro-units 1. After clearing City Planning Commission, micro apartment proposal heads to ULURP [Crain’s] 2. Law firm Perez & Cedeno signs lease at 111 Broadway [NYO]...
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325 Lexington Avenue developer shrinks project, plans new façade
Renderings of 325 Lexington Avenue Times Square Construction & Development has changed its plans for 325 Lexington Avenue yet again, Curbed reported. Initially, the developer intended to build a...
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Leave out the beaver at William Beaver House?
William Beaver House Changes are afoot at the William Beaver House, the 47-story luxury condominium-turned-rental building at 15 William Street in the Financial District. For one, Rose Associates is...
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Top stories yesterday on The Real Deal: 1. Sol Goldman’s $6B portfolio in play, as children accelerate dealmaking 2. HFZ Capital’s Bryant Park sale draws $5M commission fight 3. Where should real...
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University of Oxford inks renewal at 500 Fifth Ave., contractor accused of...
Construction at Related’s Hudson Yards (Image from Related Companies) 1. University of Oxford inks lease renewal at 500 Fifth Avenue [NYO] 2. Contractor tried to bribe Brooklyn City Council member,...
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Madison Square Garden goes before City Planning Commission in quest to extend...
Madison Square Garden Madison Square Garden went before the City Planning Commission Wednesday to try and secure a permit to operate indefinitely atop Penn Station, WNYC reported. MSG’s permit expired...
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Soho is losing its last bit of grit: Three buildings are coming down to make...
The BP gas station at the corner of Houston and Lafayette streets (source: Curbed) Three buildings in Soho – the last reminders of a grittier time for the now-upscale neighborhood – will come down so a...
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MoMA decides American Folk Art Museum is bad fit, will raze it for expansion
The American Folk Art Museum building at West 53rd Street The Museum of Moden Art will demolish the much-celebrated American Folk Art Museum building on West 53rd Street to make room for an expansion...
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The Bindery condos at Long Island City launch sales
From left: Modern Spaces CEO Eric Benaim, a rendering of the Bindery’s lobby and a rendering of a kitchen. Sales launched yesterday at the Bindery, a condominium development located at 47-34 11th...
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Behind ‘Big Data’: Start-ups gear up to fill real estate’s information needs
Jason Griffith and Ross Goldenberg from SiteCompli From the April issue: Mayor Michael Bloomberg will no doubt go down in history as the city’s numbers-cruncher-in-chief. “In God we trust. Everyone...
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Blackstone signs Equinox at 42nd Street retail Cubes
The Blackstone Group has bagged its first tenant for the glass retail boxes the company is currently building at 120 West 42nd Street, Crain’s reported. High-end gym Equinox inked a deal for 30,000...
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Brooklyn’s short homes supply holds down sales, raises prices
Brownstones in Greenpoint Brooklyn and Queens are both suffering from a squeaky tight inventory of homes, although only Brooklyn is seeing the fallout – plummeting sales and skyrocketing prices,...
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A-Rod rehabbing hip at swanky UWS pad
Aldyn and Alex Rodriguez Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez is regaining his strength from hip surgery at a swanky rental apartment on the Upper West Side, the New York Post reported. Home base for A-Rod...
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City considers 3D printing to better its piers, Donald Trump looking to build...
A former bakery in Belgium (Image via Design Boom) 1. City looks to 3D printing to better its piers [Crain’s] 2. Full-floor co-op with swank ceilings at 1020 Fifth Avenue asks $25 million [Curbed] 3....
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Eastdil’s Harmon tapped to market Time Warner Center
Doug Harmon and the Time Warner Center Time Warner has hired Eastdil Secured’s Doug Harmon to market its 1.1 million-square-foot Midtown headquarters and determine what the media conglomerate would...
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Forest City Ratner’s MaryAnne Gilmartin moves back to Brooklyn with $3.9M...
113 St. John’s Place and MaryAnne Gilmartin Cometh the hour, cometh the woman, cometh the Brooklyn pad. Forest City Ratner’s executive vice president and soon-to-be chief executive MaryAnne Gilmartin...
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State investigation seeks to end controversial force-placed insurance practice
J. Robert Hunter A New York State investigation into banks and mortgage servicers could put an end to the sizable premiums that they take from homeowners through a controversial policy known as force-...
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