By Matt Chaban 3/05/12 12:16pm

Green Thumbs

Stylish and sensible. (Dream Life NY)

Good House Keeping! Hearst Tower Achieves Highest Green Building Rating, LEED Platinum

One of the challenges of green buildings is making sure they work. You can buy the fanciest air conditioners, install the most efficient windows, even recycle the toilet water in the drinking fountains, but if building owners do not monitor their energy use, the big-time green investments can be as bad as in conventional buildings.

Hearst knows better. Just as it might tend a photo shoot or test a recipe, the media giant has been tweaking the systems at its Eighth Avenue headquarters since it opened in 2006. Thanks to Heast’s efforts, the 46-story tower—the first LEED Gold building in the city—has earned LEED Platinum status for building maintenance, essentially upgrading the building to the highest level of sustainability practices. Read More

By Dana Rubinstein 7/07/09 9:53pm

Hearst Hunts For High Class: As Company Courts Stylish Tenant, Ground Floor of Norman Foster Tower Stays Empty

It’s been more than three years since the Hearst Corporation has been looking for a tenant to fill the 14,000-plus-square-foot ground floor of its now not-so-new Lord Norman Foster–designed tower at Eighth Avenue and 57th Street.

Sources attribute much of the delay to the Hearst Corporation’s style of decision-making. Any retailer must be approved not Read More

By Dana Rubinstein 12/16/08 11:41pm

The Bridesmaids

New York brokers blustered into 2008 declaring the commercial real estate market immune to the credit crisis that with tornado-like rapacity knocked down prices in the rest of the country. Lehman’s aftermath cracked those rose-colored spectacles.

And all those fantastic leases and sales that titillated, that seemed ever on the verge of closure, turned Read More

By Staff 2/28/07 5:24pm

The Afternoon Wrap: Wednesday

  • What are the most horrifically ugly (or “god-awfully hideous”) buildings in New York? The new Hearst Tower surprisingly gets a vote, Curbed‘s Joey Arak picks The Zebra (aka Theater Row Tower), and The Sculpture for Living is “bad from the ground up.” [Gridskipper]
  • New York’s Bedford Hills neighborhood has a fancy name Read More

    • By Michael Calderone 10/16/06 12:00am

    New Times Newsroom Still Low-Slung

    Are you feeling lucky, Nicholas Kristof? When The New York Times moves to its new Eighth Avenue headquarters next year, the 10th floor will become the 13th floor.

    Progress is not sentimental. So next spring, the opinion-page offices will be pried out of their ornate and ancient home on the upper floors of West 43rd Read More