It’s a trend! Pfizer wants to sublease 750,000 square feet of office space, according to a report today in Crain’s New York Business, joining a growing set of firms seeking to shed excess space in the slumping economy:
"The Royal Bank of Scotland is marketing about 140,000 square feet at 7 World Trade Read More
Earlier this month, in the brief few-day period when only one governor was embroiled in a sex scandal, Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez introduced a bill to use eminent domain to take pharmaceutical giant Pfizer’s approximately 15-acre manufacturing plant site in East Williamsburg and turn it into affordable housing (he’s talked about this previously). Read More
Gary Jortner, executive vice president of corporate affairs at Pfizer, has bought what we can only assume is a pied a terre at 15 Central Park West given its relatively modest price tag of $2.48 million, city records show. Mr. Jortner and his wife Cindy live in Rye, according to the property deed.
One of Read More
As Pfizer seeks to sell its 15-acre plant site in Williamsburg to a private developer, Assemblyman Vito Lopez, the chairman of the Assembly’s housing committee, is pressing the pharma giant on affordable housing.
Mr. Lopez, also the chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, has been circulating a draft bill to acquire the Read More
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is opting to leave the Brooklyn community that gave it its start 159 years ago with something of a mixed-income goodbye kiss, as its seeks to turn its giant 15-acre southeast Williamsburg site into a new development marked by affordable housing.
The firm is putting out a request for proposals for Read More
Pfizer Inc. said it would shutter its Brooklyn plant as part of its “immediate priorities to drive improved performance.” Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz says more than 600 jobs will be lost. Worldwide, the pharmaceutical company is eliminating 10,000 positions.
- Matthew Schuerman
The new 28,000 square-foot Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory, funded partially by you-know-who and designed by Polshek Partnership, opens this week at the New York Botanical Garden. It will be open to the public until Sunday before being closed for students and scientists to study molecular systems and plant genomics. Get your wiggly worms Read More
There was a bit of coverage of the politics and ambience of the Black, Puerto Rican Caucus ‘s annual meeting in Albany over the weekend, and it sounds like a wonderful time was had by all (including, most of all, Tom Suozzi, who by all accounts had a lovely time complaining about his exclusion). Read More
The inability to make a decision turns out to be a rich comic subject.
I think.
In any case, it’s the problem of Dwight Wilmerding, the likably indecisive narrator of Indecision. One may wonder why someone likable has to be saddled with such a name (though maybe not, coming from an author stuck with Read More
The inability to make a decision turns out to be a rich comic subject.
I think.
In any case, it’s the problem of Dwight Wilmerding, the likably indecisive narrator of Indecision. One may wonder why someone likable has to be saddled with such a name (though maybe not, coming from an author stuck with Kunkel), Read More
