City backs Trump's Soho project. [NY Post]
Design magazines help brokers sell condos. [NY Times]
Woolworth Building is showing its age. [NY Times]
The Hotel Breslin faces a similar fate to that of the Chelsea Hotel. [NY Times]
Despite mortgage crisis, brokers expect a big season for Manhattan’s luxury residential Read More
The Brooklyn Bridge Marriott remains the main hotel option in the borough for the time being. [Brownstoner]
You may never want to eat out in the city again. [Gothamist]
This place is in the West Village? [Gawker]
Being a real estate broker in the city isn’t as Read More
Spitzer’s Corner raises a big middle finger to the regnant sensibility of au courant Lower East Side nightlife.
Unpretentious, friendly in service, possessed of immaculate oysters and mussels, and with a beer list to rival any pub in the borough, the bar felt on a recent Thursday night like your favorite college hangout—only scrubbed Read More
Beacon Capital Partners has closed on One Financial Square for $751 million, according to city records.
The 36-story, 973,000-square-foot building went to contract on July 2 and closed on August 29. In July, The New York Sun reported that this deal was in the works. The seller is the Paramount Group, Read More
The current housing market is making agents look at other careers. [NY Times]
Problems persist in city public housing despite high-paid employees. [Daily News]
Libreria Lectorum, the largest Spanish language bookstore in the city, will close its doors at the end of the month. [Daily News]
Demolition work at the Deutsche Bank Read More
Starbucks’ domination of Manhattan continues.
The plywood has come down at 14 West 23rd Street, between Sixth and Fifth avenues, to reveal another outpost of the coffee chain.
The Flatiron District was not necessarily in need of another Starbucks store, but when has that ever stopped the caffeine giant? A quick Read More
Commercial real estate prices could drop as much as 15 percent over the next year. [Bloomberg]
Parking garages in the city are turning into development sites. [NY Sun]
There are at least four Manhattan penthouses for under $1 million. [NY Sun]
Will the garment district soon be a thing of the past? Read More
The summer is typically a time when news slows down to a snail’s pace. People (including reporters) split for the beach and opt for the latest Pat Conroy novel rather than a daily read of the newspaper.
But from the standpoint of Manhattan residential real estate, the summer of 2007 was one of the Read More
