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Famed Park Avenue office tower gives aging event ꦓ෴space a facelift
October 21, 2024 | 9:51amThere’s a new look and new life for one of Realty Checꦕk’s favorite private gathering spots. 🍷
Refortified Vessel reopens a𓄧fter suicide leaps shut NYC landmark for 3 years
October 20, 2024 | 9:59amThe Vessel wil𒆙l become a hive of activity again after developer put in new safety measures to prevent the type of tragedies that shuttered the landmark.
Let Penn Station live! Why I celebrate NYC's ugly, overcrowded and dysfunctional labyrinth
October 19, 2024 | 12:00pmPenn Statio𝓡n may never again evoke the glory of its disappeared original, but the new version is no longer deservi🔯ng of widespread derision.
Look out, New York: There's a best new Chinese duck dish in town
October 17, 2024 | 4:37pmThere's a fresh must-try menu item the city — and it's at Cha Cha Tang. 𝕴
Bloomberg mega-deal at 'PJ Clarke’s tower' lifts Third Avenue
October 16, 2024 | 6:15pm🃏 A commercial broker who wasn’t involved in the deal commented, “Maybe all the ‘Dead Avenue’ jokes were premature.”
NYC retail leasing shows signs o🐭f reboundꦯ after COVID carnage
October 13, 2024 | 2:37pm🐻 Third-quarter Manhattan surveys found significantly lower storefront availability.
Super popular Salt & Straw has finally opened in NYC — but no one needed pastrami♏-on-rye ice cream
October 7, 2024 | 5:56pmHere's♈ the scoop🥃 on the buzzy treat shop backed by Danny Meyer.
🦩 Waldorf Astoria’s much-hyped — and oft-delayed — grand re-opening is pushed back yet again
October 7, 2024 | 4:38pmThe great landmark is still undergoing an eight years๊-and-counting restoration and redesignও. The building’s current condition is also a nuisance to nearby businesses.
ꦇ Wall Street firm Jane Street looks to grow footprint in boost to Financial District
October 6, 2024 | 4:03pmThe office leasing breakthrough that Downtown has been waiting for could happen by year’s end. Global trading 🐓firm Jane Street is looking to grow at Brookfield Place, we’ve learned. The...
J&R Music owner looking to sell form♛er retail space after Fed cut
October 6, 2024 | 3:51pmThe iconic retail and office portion of 15 Park R𒁏ow, former home to J&R Music, is up for sale by owner Rachelle Friedman as a 200-year condominium leasehold.
Forget the naysayer꧃s, NYC restauran🗹ts never went out of style
October 5, 2024 | 10:00amNew leases on large restaurants are propelling New York's real estate scene to new heigh༺ts.
Sixth Avenue skyscraper adds 'eagle' nest with signing of indoor golf company
September 30, 2024 | 5:26pmThe latest addition is part of the roughly $45 million in new tenants’ amenities at 1290 Sixth, and Vornado’s 𒉰plan also includes a 12,000 square-foot “tablecloth” res𒊎taurant.
൲ Celeb-filled NYC condo building offering parking spots for $500K
September 29, 2024 | 5:31pmAnd they’re going fast, according to a spokesperson. The half-mill tab might not be🔥 a heavy lift for owners who have spent up to $35🦩 million for a penthouse.
Hedge fund manager giant inks hu💙sh-hush lease at revamped NYC office building
September 29, 2024 | 5:20pmThe Manhattan office market continues to surprise with unexpected new leases and expansions – and now, a most unlikely relocation th⛦at nobody saw coming. Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge...
Camel and 'illegal pheasant': Welcome to NYC's wildest — and best — new Indian restaurant
September 17, 2024 | 2:31pmVee🍎rays is the most thrillingly delicious thing to happen to Midtown East in a l⛎ong while.
New Riverwalk tower on Rooꦆsevel𓆉t Island is just what doctors ordered
September 15, 2024 | 2:01pmThe new t💟ower adds 357 units, with 104 earmarked for employees 𒆙of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Fabled NYC restaurant that attracted Hollywood power players for decades🌳 meets its long-overdue end
September 12, 2024 | 5:57pmOnce a celebrity hot spot, Midtown's French fine dining institution has final🧜ly croaked.
Inside 'hero without honor' Larry Silverstein's battle to rebuild the World Trade Center after 9/11
September 9, 2024 | 1:00pmTwenty-two years after 9/11 — and🙈 after battles with Pataki, Bloomberg and Port Authority — Larry Silverstein is closing in on the prize that long eluded him: Two World Trade Center.
NYC luxury residential tower to feature secret 'trophy' space for commercial tenants
September 8, 2024 | 3:37pmTucked ins꧂ide will be 210,882 square feet of offices on 25 boutique-size lower floors, from the ninth through the 34th.
Two new tenants at famed NYC 🌳Midtown towers bolster luxury retail market
September 8, 2024 | 3:24pmꦦ Bonhams will reportedly move into the landmarked former Steinway Piano showroom at the base of 111 W. 57th St. ܫ