Deeds and Deals

Blood on the Brokerage Floor: Corcoran Heavyweights Jump to Brown Harris Stevens

The heftiest brokerage in the city just lost three hefty senior vice presidents all at once—and a V.P., too—to rival firm Brown Harris Stevens.

“Sometimes issues come up that make it better for the brokers and the company to part ways,” Corcoran chief Read More

ESDC Raids Newsday

Errol Cockfield has joined the Empire State Development Corporation as press secretary, the second Newsday staffer to defect to the state’s economic development agency that is now run by a Long Islander.

How did this happen?

The ESDC’s new senior vice president for communications, A.J. Carter, was the first hire. As Newsday‘s associate business Read More

Javits Center Hotel Short-Short List

The short-list of potential developers for the Javits Center hotel was supposed to come out on Monday (PDF), but considering that only three bidders had submitted qualified proposals by the Jan. 12 deadline anyway, the Empire State Development Corporation decided to forgo the formality.

Otherwise, however, A.J. Carter, the agency’s spokesman, said Read More