Great views of the Park are much-talked-about and rarely achieved. And so with a mixture of awe and schadenfreude, The Observer went near the top of Durst Fetner Residential’s new 42-story tower, and looked clear across the sparkling vista of Central Park on a spring morning.
Durst and Mount Sinai topped out on one of the Read More
How will the Dursts contain their excitement this week? A scant 36 hours after we crowned Messrs. Douglas and Jody the kings of New York real estate, we learn that they’ve signed 22,000 square feet of new leases.
Yes, dear reader, the home of the national debt clock at 1133 Sixth Avenue has one new tenant Read More
Connie Milstein was in a tough spot when once she was asked about the challenge of being part of a prominent real estate family. “A lot of what Connie said was not suitable for TV or radio or anywhere,” said Faith Hope Consolo, who recounted the story at last night’s “The Women Leading NY’s Real Read More
For at least half the population, the mourning over the shuttered ESPN Zone was short and sweet. On, we hope, to better things, as the Durst Organization has put the 45,000-square-foot Times Square mega-space back on the market.
Though ESPN’s testorone-fueled hub at the base of 4 Times Square shuttered last spring, Disney has been Read More
Now that Conde Nast is headed south, the publishing giant’s landlord, Douglas Durst, reveals there is already active interest in Conde’s current digs in 4 Times Square.
“It’s a good building and a good space,” Mr. Durst, chairman of the Durst Organization, said Wednesday, following a lecture to an overflowing room with members of Columbia’s Real Estate Development Program. There Read More
At street level, 1155 Avenue of the Americas is Thomas Pink, but upstairs it’s Don Draper meets Dow Jones. The News Corp.-owned publisher has signed a 117,000-square-foot lease for 10 years for advertising-sales offices on the third and fifth through eighth floors of the Durst Organization‘s 41-story black granite tower.
The 1984 Emery Roth & Sons-designed Read More
Robert Durst, the estranged son of Times Square developer Seymour Durst, thought Ryan Gosling did a decent job playing him in Andrew Jarecki’s new film All Good Things. The movie follows Mr. Durst through a failed marriage and three alleged murders.
Mr. Gosling’s performance was “close,” but “not as good as the real thing,” Mr. Read More
Last week came the news that the Durst Organization was working on its project at 57th Street and the West Side highway once again, even if the work was simply an as-of-right filing to keep the project eligible for brownfield tax credits. Then on Monday came the crazy cartoonish news that what was Read More
As The Observer suspected, the Durst Organization is working on a residential project for the site it owns on West 57th Street next to the West Side Highway. What we never could have fathomed is that the project had been hiding in plain site–as part of a Web comic.
A month after first designating the Durst Organization the winning bidder to buy a $100 million stake in One World Trade Center, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey yesterday announced the basic terms of its agreement with Durst.
In making some of this deal public (though certainly not all), a few Read More
