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Puncture is in Vein

Having barely folded up his campy Captain America comic book costume in the box labeled “Burn This,” Chris Evans returns to prove he has enough kilowatts to shine in a script chosen for something besides money. In Puncture, he gets a real workout. It’s a harrowingly grim true story about a functioning Houston attorney named Mark Weiss Read More

DSK

How Soon Is Now: Rushing to Judgement on DSK

Je te l’avais dit.

It’s French for “I told you so.” The French do not have a phrase, however, for “jumping the gun”—at least nothing catchy.

As a result, some may find themselves ill-equipped to discuss recent events concerning the potential trial (and recent release) of former I.M.F. chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, whose public criminal prosecution took a nosedive last week. Read More

Dirt Law

Guerilla Leasing Tactics for the Space-Challenged Tenant

I recently gave a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) lecture and called it “Guerilla Leasing Tactics for the Space Challenged Tenant.” I thought Commercial Observer readers might enjoy listening in.

 

The Program Preliminaries

[Embarrassingly over-the-top thank-yous and kudos to all concerned for putting together this momentous program of Read More

Lucky Law Firm Picks Another Recession to Office Shop

The real estate gods look kindly on Mark Feinstein, partner at defense litigation firm Aaronson, Rappaport, Feinstein and Deutsch.

It was back in the early 1990s, in the days when the Manhattan office market had too much product and too few tenants (sound familiar?), that his firm signed a lease for 36,000 square feet at Read More

Plaza District Developers Evoke Disney

From the developers of JFK International Airport's acclaimed Terminal 4 comes “Cinderella Story," a soon-to-be fully revamped office building at 545 Madison Avenue.

Demolition is already under way at Madison and 55th Street, where an existing 17-story building is being stripped down to its frame and redone from scratch to create 140,000 square feet of high-end Read More