Month: October 2019

Rockefeller Plaza is on a roll. Citrin Cooperman is the latest firm to plant its flag at 50 Rockefeller Plaza. The accounting firm will expand and move to 110,742 square feet on a portion of the second floor along with the entire third and fourth floors. It is currently located in nearly 90,000 square feet

Paramount held up putting 900 Third Ave. on the sales market until a 17,346-square-foot lease for Handelsbanken to relocate its offices to the 17th floor was completed. The 598,903-square-foot office building at 900 Third sits on the western blockfront between East 53rd and 54th streets. As Between the Bricks advised last week, the 36-story building

In the Financial District, two financial firms — one women-owned, the other minority-owned — are merging and expanding. Now the nation’s No. 1 women-owned and minority-owned investment bank — rebranded as Siebert Williams Shank & Co. — is the result of the merger between the women-owned public finance firm Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co. and

Here’s a NYC real estate anomaly: a rent reduction. A New York Public Library branch in Soho has signed a new lease that lowers its rent by more than 50% below what it negotiated during the run-up to the financial crisis. Located since 2007 at 10 Jersey St. in the base of 285 Lafayette St.,

Don’t call it a mall. Triple Five Group, developer of the $5 billion American Dream at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, wants the attraction next to Giants stadium known as an “entertainment center.” And, by golly, is it wildly entertaining. While the center’s Nickelodeon Universe theme park opened Oct. 25 to sold-out crowds, remaining attractions

Titanic-sized tenants are circling the newest office buildings in anticipation of what may be a leasing feeding frenzy among the “FAANGs”: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google. The tech titans have been hovering around the Hudson Yards area, where targeted buildings include the megaproject’s 30 and 50 Hudson Yards, the Spiral, Manhattan West, Vornado’s reimagined

Now that Nordstrom has opened its spectacular, seven-story women’s department store at 225 W. 57th St. just as Barneys appears near-dead, could the fashion scene soon migrate four long blocks west from Madison Avenue? The question’s on the minds of retail and real estate insiders, who hope Nordstrom will draw more luxury shops — or

This is not entirely unexpected. Real Housewives of New York is filming right now, minus one melodramatic humanitarian. Yes, viewers will need to find the strength to move on without Bethenny Frankel dominating every scene she is in. You won’t find Luann de Lesseps crying in the corner over the loss of Bethenny. Especially after