It would have been easy for Lou D’Avanzo and his Cushman & Wakefield leasing team to rest on their laurels.
While Condé Nast’s million-square-foot lease at 1 World Trade Center last year has become a dominant emblem of downtown’s resurgence as a popular destination for office tenants, the C&W group’s lease-up of 77 Water Street has also etched its way into recent lore in the neighborhood.
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AH, BONUS DAY. It's that magical time of year when the world's most widely-reviled financial institutions dole out the real money, not this ridiculous salary nonsense the rest of us peons get. That day, for Goldman Sachs, is today. And it is Not. Going. Well. Read More
Fresh off the highly publicized collapse of securities firm MF Global Holdings Ltd., former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine is allegedly sniffing around for new office space at 40 Wall Street, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Mr. Corzine has set his sights on sharing space with John Carris Investments, a full service investment banking firm whose corporate headquarters are located inside the Trump Organization-owned office tower, The Wall Street Journal reports.
A spokesman for John Carris did not respond to a request for comment.
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Yesterday, we wrote a lot about the Occupy Wall Street protesters who put on giant vampire squid puppets and marched down to Goldman Sachs headquarters at 200 West End. Their message may have ended up getting lost in translation, but it did make for an amazing video from Big Apple TV, the New York-centric spin-off of Next Media Animation, the Taiwanese studio that has brought us American pop-culture in weird, cartoonish installments since about 2010-ish.
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Approximately 15 people associated with Occupy Wall Street were arrested around 1:00 p.m. this afternoon while protesting eight blocks away from Zuccotti Park, at the headquarters of Goldman Sachs.
One of those people happened to be the Reverend Billy Talen, an outspoken activist from The Church of Stop Shopping who spends a lot of time down at Occupy Wall Street. Another was The Nation's Chris Hedges, who departed from The New York Times after they reprimanded him for speaking out against the Iraq War. So two out of five people arrested were high-profile leftist advocates? What are the chances?
(Very good, actually.)
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In July, Dunkin' Donuts went public (or: started to have stock in the company sold on the Nasdaq Stock Market, Homer). And since that very famous, much-ballyhooed public debt, shares in the company soared 42% above where they were since they started selling them. Who lead the Dunkin' IPO and helped get that thing selling? Read More
Via Dealbook's Kevin Roose: "More hurricane news: Goldman Sachs told employees they can dress casually on Monday as long as they 'exercise good judgment.'" Also, no, they will not let you into their hurricane perperation practices, which are perfectly within regulatory compliance: "A Goldman spokesman declined to detail the bank’s hurricane Read More
It's being reported by Reuters today that Goldman Sachs CEO, avowed Lady Gaga fan, and G-Unit extended family member Lloyd Blankfein has recently hired and retained high-profile defensive legal eagle Reid Weingarten to play on his secondary, should the government come after him. And yes, he's had some famous clients.
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On Sunday night, Goldman Sachs' weekly Investment Strategy Group memo went out as it does every Sunday; as one could imagine, this week's was a fairly fun read. Consider the title: "A 'Lehman Moment' Under Every Rock." Highlights:
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Nonshocker: Charlie Gasparino has seized an opportunity to address the matter of smack talked on his now-sullied good name by G-Unit affiliate Lloyd Blankfein. Doesn't he know today isn't about him? Read More
If you haven't already read it, this week's New York Magazine profile of "misunderstood creature" and Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein by Jessica Pressler is many things, but most prominently: weirdly fun, especially concerning a revelation about Mr. Blankfein's pop culture proclivities. Read More
Evelyn Y. Davis, the octogenarian corporate gadfly, is best known for yelling at Lloyd Blankfein, the C.E.O. of Goldman Sachs. Last week, she showed a softer side at the shareholders’ meeting for Saks Incorporated. “We get along fine,” she said of Saks Inc. “It’s not as controversial as Goldman Sachs.” As is her habit in Read More
Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, faced a handful of critics and cranks during the firm's annual meeting in Jersey City last week. He did his best to deal with the uninformed complaints of those who think they understand how the free market works, but who actually haven't a clue.
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Not every school's opening brings together the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and titans of finance, but few schools command the lavish praise and private-public support of Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone.Shaun Donovan joined Canada, Education Chancellor Cathie Black, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and donors from Goldman Sachs this morning to break ground on a Read More
Goldman Sachs recently created quite a sensation when it invested nearly half a billion dollars in Facebook. Now the investment bank is putting $70 million into AppSense, a desktop virtualization company headquarted in New York.
AppSense puts users' desktops into the cloud. So an employee at ESPN, one of their clients, could have access to Read More
