Trading Spaces

Two Rare Herald Square Trades

Thousands of purchases are made each day on the bustling 34th Street corridor, but prime retail space has barely traded at all.

The leasehold interest for two Herald Square area buildings between Fifth Avenue and Broadway has sold for $7.4 million. The buyer is ISTA West 34th Street LLC, an entity affiliated with Lloyd Goldman’s BLDG Read More

Desigual? No, I Didn’t! Spanish Clothier Opening in Herald Square

Desigual, the Barcelona-based clothier whose use of geometric shapes and squiggly lines resembles something a preternaturally talented teenager might concoct, is opening a store in Herald Square, its first New York storefront (indeed, its first American storefront) outside of Soho.

Desigual has signed a lease for the old Baker Shoes retail space at 362 Fifth Read More

Ugly Little Herald Square Building Trades for $10.5 M.

An ugly little Herald Square office building has traded for $10.5 million, according to city records.

The four-story building in question squats at 49 West 33rd Street, between Fifth Avenue and Broadway. An obscurely named entity called KC129-09 LLC bought the building from another obscurely named entity, 4933 Realty LLC, on Oct. 3. The latter Read More

Sam Chang Revs Up Yet Again

So much for hitting the brakes.

Sam Chang, New York’s hotelier for the common man, strikes again.

This week he filed an application with the Buildings Department to build a 25-story hotel at 54 West 36th Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, near Herald Square.

This will, of course, be the gazillionth hotel Read More

Sale of Atlantic Bank Building Official

The sale of the Atlantic Bank Building at 960 Sixth Avenue is officially a done deal.

The 16-story, 99,000-square-foot property sold for $105 million on July 13, according to city records. The building sits just north of Macy’s on the corner of 35th Street and Sixth Avenue.

The New York Sun Read More

The Afternoon Wrap: Tuesday


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