Lois Beckett

By Lois Beckett 6/08/09 6:49pm

Manhattan Office Vacancy Rate Climbs to 13.1 Percent, Worst Since 1996

The Manhattan office market, according to a new report, hasn’t looked this bleak since Barack Obama was a community organizer with designs.

Both the overall Manhattan commercial vacancy rate and the vacancy rate for top-shelf, Class A properties in midtown are the highest since 1996, according to Colliers ABR’s May market report (PDF). Overall Read More

By Lois Beckett 5/20/09 3:15am

Where Is Knox’s Vox? Twittering Ex-New Yorker Writer Dan Baum’s Wife, Former Martha Gellhorn, Hides Light Under Bushel

Literary history is full of women who served as quiet enablers of male talent: Milton’s daughters, who read aloud to their blind father in languages they didn’t understand; Dorothy Wordsworth, who declared, “I should detest the idea of setting myself up as an author,” even as her poet brother borrowed images from her journal; and Read More

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Lois Beckett

Manhattan Office Vacancy Rate Climbs to 13.1 Percent, Worst Since 1996

Where Is Knox’s Vox? Twittering Ex-New Yorker Writer Dan Baum’s Wife, Former Martha Gellhorn, Hides Light Under Bushel

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