By Daniel Edward Rosen 1/31 12:17pm

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Donald Trump Jr. (photo credit: Hannah Mattix)

Trump Card: The Rise of 40 Wall Street and its Steward, Donald Trump Jr.

“For us, we had to do something different,” said Donald Trump Jr. last week, his voice rising with excitement.

Freshly tanned from a recent visit to Mexico, where he was overseeing a new project, the slicked-back scion grew steadily more enthusiastic as he discussed 40 Wall Street, an office tower that, with its rising and falling tenant roster, has contributed to the Trump Organization executive vice president’s growing reputation as a competent steward of the family name, a reliable fixer and successful dealmaker in his own right. Read More

By Daniel Edward Rosen 1/10 8:30am

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40 Wall Street, soon to be called "The Corzine Castle"?? (photo courtesy of property shark)

Corzine Touring Office Space at 40 Wall

Fresh off the highly publicized collapse of securities firm MF Global Holdings Ltd., former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine is allegedly sniffing around for new office space at 40 Wall Street, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Mr. Corzine has set his sights on sharing space with John Carris Investments, a full service investment banking firm whose corporate headquarters are located inside the Trump Organization-owned office tower, The Wall Street Journal reports.

A spokesman for John Carris did not respond to a request for comment. Read More

By Max Abelson 4/07/10 12:49am

Comebacks

Wall Street 2: The Return of Corzine

Goldman Sachs bankers like trekking into the wilderness of public service, but once they go, they don’t come home. An executive who becomes a senator, an intelligence adviser, a deputy secretary of state, a White House chief of staff or a Treasury secretary hardly ever returns to Wall Street. And the second act in finance, Read More

By Dana Rubinstein 11/10/09 8:54pm

Battle of the Holland Tunnel

It was Oct. 13, and inside the wood-paneled lobby of the Newport Office Center, which rises like a glass punctuation mark from the Jersey City shore of the Hudson River, Governor Jon Corzine was gleefully announcing a huge score in the Garden State’s long-simmering battle with Manhattan for office tenants.

The Depository Trust and Clearing Read More

By Staff 11:28am

How Bill Owens Spoiled a Republican Narrative

So there we were somewhere around 10 o’clock on Election Night, watching as county after county reported devastating news for Jon Corzine.

New Jersey’s governor—for whom Barack Obama made two splashy campaign appearances in the home stretch—was going down, the first Democrat to lose a statewide race there in 12 years, and only the second Read More

By John Koblin 10/13/09 11:45pm

In New Jersey, Papers Bleed but Survive

One year ago, the Newhouses were threatening to close down their treasured jewel, The Star-Ledger, unless the paper’s union made a series of concessions, which included cutting the newsroom by 40 percent.

They got what they wanted, and it seemed like things could go back to normal, albeit with fewer deckhands on the ship. Read More