There are few events The Observer looks forward to each year more than the annual brokers’ race to the top of the Empire State Building. There is nothing that caffeine-fueled cubicle rats like ourselves do better than chide others’ athletic accomplishments.
Our congratulations, of course, go out to Cushman & Wakefield’s Matthew Siegel, the sprightly Read More
350 Fifth Avenue
The Empire State Building is no stranger to grand entrances, but Li & Fung managed to muster an extra dash of drama.
The Hong Kong-based clothing conglomerate has signed a 490,000-square-foot lease in the iconic tower-easily the biggest lease of the young year, and also trouncing all the leases of 2010. Read More
Last year was a busy one for Tony Malkin, and 2011 is looking to be more of the same. He was embroiled in a minor scandal for refusing to light his landmark Empire State Building in honor of Mother Teresa’s centennial. A few months later, Malkin, seeking to protect views of his tower, was unable to Read More
Maybe there was more than just the skyline when it came to Tony Malkin’s fight with Vornado Realty Trust over its proposed 15 Penn Plaza, which will partially obscure views of Mr. Malkin’s iconic Art Deco tower. It turns out that Malkin Hoildings made a pretty good return last year of $16 million Read More
Air China, the official airline of the Communist regime, is moving into some swanky new space on the 69th floor of the Empire State Building. Apparently the looming threat of 15 Penn Plaza was just that, as Fred Posniak, a W&H Properties executive suggested in a release announcing the deal today.
“International brand-name companies appreciate 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
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
