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Bloomberg mega-deal at 'PJ Clarke’s tower' lifts Third Avenue

 A commercial broker who wasn’t involve꧟d in the deal commented, “Maybe all the ‘Dead Avenue’  jokes were premature.”

♌ NYC retail leasing shows 🔜signs of rebound after COVID carnage

Third-quarterಌ Manhattan surveys found signific𝔍antly lower storefront availability.

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 tr🐬ading firm Jane Street is looking to grow at Brookfield Place, we’ve learned. The...

ꦡ J&R Music owner looking to sell former retail space after Fed cut

The iconic 🀅retail and office portion of 15 Park Row, former home to J&R Music, is up for sale by own🀅er Rachelle Friedman as a 200-year condominium leasehold.

These NYC apartments near Billionaires' Row cost $99K — but there's a catch

📖 It's one of just about 100 Big Apple co-ops with the rare arrangement.

Sixth Avenue skyscraper adds 'eagle' nest with signing of indoor golf company

The latest addition is part of the roughly ও$45 million in new tenants’ amenities at 1290 Sixth, and Vornado’s plan also includes a 12,000 square-foot “tablecloth” restaurant.

🎃Hedge fund manager giant inks hush-hush lea🅰se at revamped NYC office building

 The Manhattan office market continues t🐷o surprise with unexpected new leases and expansions – and now, a most unlikely relocation that nobody saw coming.   Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge...

Two new tenants 🃏at famed NYC Midtown towers bolsterඣ luxury retail market

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

𓄧 Yeshiva University enlarges Midtown footprint with health sciences campus at Herald Center

The deal couldn’t꧙ come at a better time 🅰for landlord JEMB Realty Corporation, which needed a new tenant.

 Century-old NYC office buildi෴ng signs two deals to buck trend toward newer towers 🌺

While some older bu⛄ildings atrop🤪hy, others thrive. Two new deals totaling 104,000 square feet have brought George Comfort & Sons’ 960,000 square-foot 498 Seventh Ave. to 95% occupied.

StubHub expands footprint at WTC, scoops up shrinking Spotify's space

Spotify needed less space at the Worl♕d Trade Center, but StubHub needed more. In a deal that should make everyone happy -- including landlord Larry Silverstein -- the online live-event...

Whole Foods to beef up NYC footprint with new outpost in East Village as Manhattan real estate𓆉 remains in flux

The circumstances reflect a Manhattan retail scene that continues to be in turbulent flux, struggling to get its juice back after the pandemic and🌞 -🅠- maybe more critically -- the online...

Staple Pigeon streetwear launches fir🌜st US store in Soho

Streetwear clothing brand Staple Pigeon is launching its first perm𒉰anent US store at 21 Mercer St. in Soho. 

NYC's MetLife Building picks major firm to run iconic tower in surprise twist

The MetLife Building, a crown jewel asset of the Grand Central-East Midtown office dis🍎trict, is putting all its assets under one ownership and management roof, Realty Check has learned.

🅰 Empire State Building filling up to the brim with addition of latest t🧜enant 

The newest  tenant, global management consulting firm Kearney, just claimed the highest two o🔯ffice floors -- 🍎78 and 79, where it signed for 27,866 square feet. (Higher floors are broadcasting...

$128M upgrade helps former CBS𝕴 headquarters keep 🤪white-shoe firm

In the latest reflection of Sixth Avenue’s enduring app��eal, global law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe renewed its ꦜlease on 144,312 square feet for fifteen years at 51 W. 52nd...

Hudson Yards skyscraper The Spiral lands five new tenants to lift occupancy above 80% ꧃

The Spiral has been a favorite Realty Check subject since we first reportedဣ Pfiz❀er would anchor the Tishman Speyer tower back in August 2017. Its strong pulling power -- enhanced...

Flexible co-working facility The Square replaces forme💧r WeWork floors 

WeWork’s former floors at Hines’ 205 Hudson St. w🧸ill survive as co-working space, but under a different business model and with some redesigned sections. Hines, which owns the boutique 🐼office... 

 Wal♉l Street-area office market sees strong leasing activity in May, ⛦CBRE report finds

📖 Th♊e market saw 321,000 square feet of office deals last month, according to CBRE -- 17% ahead of the five-year monthly average of 274,000 square feet. 

Related's Hudson Yards inks 2 major deals in Covington & Burling, Susquehanna International Group

Two just-signed, major, new deals demo🌞nstrate the sustained appeal of Related’s Hudson Yards complex -- and the preference for newer buildings over highly-regarded older ones.   Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), the...