Cushman & Wakefield duo Harry Blair and Sean Kearns have been named the exclusive leasing and managing agents for 501 Seventh Avenue, the W&H Properties-owned 18-story office building in the thick of the Midtown South market, it was announced in a press release today. Read More
Happy birthday, Mother Teresa! If you were alive, you would be 100 years old—not that anyone’s counting. In fact, instead of talking about how you spent your life helping people in India, everyone is busy either celebrating you or protesting the fact that you’re not being celebrated. Right now, there’s a rally organized by the Read More
The full City Council has approved a 1,200-foot office tower planned by Vornado Realty Trust to rise atop the Hotel Pennsylvania, two blocks from the Empire State Building.
The vote came this afternoon, less than two weeks after Empire State Building owner Anthony Malkin launched a public push to block the skyscraper, warning it Read More
The owners of the Empire State Building today released a poll that queried people around the country about the place of the skyscraper in New York City’s skyline.
The point of the poll was to show that indeed this building has an iconic place in Americans’ vision of New York, and that changing the skyline would be Read More
democracy or something like it
For those who have strong feelings on whether Vornado chairman Steven Roth should be able to build a 1,200-foot tower two blocks away from the 1,250-foot Empire State Building, there’s now an outlet.
Over at the Municipal Art Society’s Web site, there’s an online poll.
Now one day in, things are running pretty even. With Read More
What HappenedGround Zero Mosque
Sharif El-Gamal, the principal of SoHo Properties and would-be developer of the “ground zero mosque” (getting really tired of putting those quotation remarks around it, will stop soon), says he’s not going anywhere—though he would sell if the price were right.
Anthony Malkin, owner of the Empire State Building, isn’t too fond of the Read More
New York Post Jack-of-all-trades Steve Cuozzo calls out Empire State Building owner Anthony Malkin in today’s paper for his tremendous “chutzpah” in trying to prevent a new skyscraper from obstructing his own tower’s extraordinary views.
The dispute between Mr. Malkin and landlord Vornado—which is planning to build a skyscraper at 15 Penn Plaza—was Read More
This past spring, Anthony Malkin, president of Malkin Properties and an owner of the Empire State Building, started paying attention to an office tower planned by Vornado Realty Trust. The giant office landlord was seeking approvals to build a tower up to 1,216 feet high two blocks to his building’s west, on what’s Read More
Count Tony Malkin as apparently not a fan of Steve Roth’s planned tower in place of the Hotel Pennsylvania.
In public testimony submitted to the City Planning Commission in June (recently posted online; page 7), Mr. Malkin, president of Malkin Properties and an owner of the Empire State Building, subtly lashed out against the Read More
The Battle of the Bulbs continued on Saturday between City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Empire State Building owner Tony Malkin.
Ms. Quinn sent a letter to the real estate mogul blasting his support of her plan for New Yorkers to place battery-operated candlesticks in their windows on Aug. 26, Read More
