Happy St. Patrick's Day. Here's to staying sober 'til noon. - The Observer's Eliot Brown puts the emotion and the politics aside, and tackles the nuts-and-bolts of rebulding at the World Trade Center site. Does anyone really want or need 7 million square feet of new office space? And does the public want to pay for a lot of it? Well, do... READ MORE»
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch was the guest speaker at the Real Estate Board of New York's latest members luncheon, on March 2 at the Sheraton on Seventh Avenue. The Observer's Dana Rubinstein covered the speech, which veered from politics to real estate to the larger economy to The New York Times vs. the Wall Street... READ MORE»
The Observer's Chloe Malle broke the news last week of real estate titan Benjamin Winter's $12 million purchase of an 11-room spread at tony co-op 765 Park. A look inside, thanks to this cached listing with Brown Harris... READ MORE»
The topping out this week of the 662,000-square-foot tower, developed by Tishman Speyer in Long Island... READ MORE»
Real Estate Board of New York President Steven Spinola escorted Governor David Paterson through the cocktail reception before REBNY's 114th annual banquet on Thursday evening at the Midtown Hilton. "This is Sandy Lindenbaum," Mr. Spinola said, introducing the governor to the legendary real estate lawyer (interviewed in November by The Commercial Observer). "He's one of our honorees... READ MORE»
Cushman & Wakefield, one of New York’s biggest commercial real estate brokerages, is looking for a new chief executive. Bruce Mosler, its CEO and president since January 2005, has been appointed co-chairman of the firm’s board, alongside John Cushman III. Cushman & Wakefield made the announcement... READ MORE»
It’s easy to envy Pat Fondiller, the beermeister of Park Slope institution The Gate. He gets paid to have conversations like this one on a recent late weeknight in the bar’s back corner. He was talking with Gate founder and owner Bobby Gagnon. The topic was which beer the bar would not carry. One TV over the bar played the Yankees game. Another, muted, played Chuck Norris' original The Delta Force. Mr. Gagnon: “We won’t... READ MORE»
Erica Shea was on the Chinatown bus from Boston to New York after Thanksgiving in 2008, reading Burkhard Bilger’s profile of Sam Calagione, the wort-crusted owner of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, in The New Yorker’s food issue. She texted her boyfriend, Stephen Valand, who was visiting relatives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn: “We have to do... READ MORE»