Steve Cuozzo

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Famed Park Avenue office tower gives aging event ꦓ෴space a facelift

 There’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

The 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

Penn 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

There'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

🃏 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

🐻 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

Here'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

The 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

 The 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

The 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 

New 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

 The 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

 And 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

The 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

Vee🍎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

The 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

Once 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

Twenty-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

Tucked 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

ꦦ Bonhams will reportedly move into the landmarked former Steinway Piano showroom at the base of 111 W. 57th St.  ܫ