LeFraks Bank on Big Bucks for Precious Midtown Space

“The market has definitely moved in the landlord’s favor,” chuckled Howard Fiddle, a broker at CB Richard Ellis.

He’s exactly right, of course. Office rents have never been higher, and tenants in need of a big block of space have nowhere else to turn.

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Nicholas Lemann And the Columbia J-School

Last week, Columbia University president Lee Bollinger announced that he had hired Nicholas Lemann, a New Yorker reporter and noted book author, to be dean of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. This was no ordinary appointment: Six months ago, in pursuit of what he declared would be an entirely new approach to teaching journalism, Mr. Read More