By Daniel Geiger 12/07/11 1:30pm

ICSC

Wheeling and dealing at Del Posto.

After Hours: Real Estate Brokers Look For After-After-After ICSC Party

It’s ICSC week in New York City and while many in the retail business consider the event secondary to the larger conference held by the organization in Las Vegas each May, for many Manhattan real estate brokers, the conference is the most important of the year—and not necessarily just because of its jam-packed daytime roster of speakers and seminars.

In establishments from the New York Times’s four-star-rated Del Posto to the Dream Hotel in Lower Manhattan, buttoned-up retail brokers will be wining and dining potential clients during a two-day orgy of after-hour soirees, dinners and suds-soaked meetings, all designed with the deal in mind. Read More

By Laura Kusisto 5/18/11 4:55pm

Features

The Top New Retail Spots You’ve Never Heard Of

Employment numbers might still be shakey and shopping malls are reportedly on the permanent wane, but there’s more to celebrate in Vegas this year than Celine Dion’s triumphant return tour. “We’re a nation of shopaholics,” said Prudential Douglas Elliman’s Faith Hope Consolo.  Indeed, this year’s International Council of Shopping Centers is poised to be the Read More

By Laura Kusisto 5/13/11 5:53pm

lease beat

Sporty Gap Races Into 86th and Third

As assured as the sight of tulips blooming in Central Park, is the specter of Upper East Siders in velour track suits ambling as their West Side countparts sprint by. 

No more! Athleta, the Gap sports brand that’s been slowly muscling its way into major U.S. cities, is opening its second New York location at Read More

By Laura Kusisto 3/28/11 8:00pm

lease beat

Payless Picks New Lower East Side Spot

With tacky luggage getting harder to come by on the Lower East Side, it’s comforting to know that at least more stylish discount shoes are proliferating.

A shiny retail space at 130 Delancey Street, which has been on the market for a couple of years, is cobbling together a retail revival after all, with 7,000 Read More

By Staff 7/06/05 1:43am

Chelsea T-Room

Chelsea boys with a penchant for slouchy, nerve.com-style workout-wear now have an outlet.

After conquering hipster strongholds such as the Lower East Side, Soho, and Williamsburg, American Apparel recently signed a 10-year lease for a 3,700-square-foot space at 181 Eighth Avenue, their first Chelsea location.

The L.A.-based clothing retailer is notorious both for its Read More