By Daniel Geiger 1/24/12 11:08am

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1173 REBNY 116th Annual Banquet, 1.19.12

Walking the REBNY Ballroom: Hungry Brokers, Angry Lapidus

Speeches were casually ignored, drinks were spilled and bonds were formed at last Thursday’s 116th annual Real Estate Board of New York Gala, which this year drew an estimated 2,000 brokers, owners, advertising buyers and real estate reporters to the New York Hilton for an evening of conviviality, honorifics and hushed deal making. Among the fray was Commercial Observer staff writer Daniel Geiger, who during the course of the evening saw his stenopad tossed by an irate real estate broker and who unabashedly accosted Studley’s Woody Heller in the hotel’s bathroom, all for the sake of the story. Below, a timeline of gala comings and goings, from the innocuous gossip down to the downright obnoxious.  Read More

By Jotham Sederstrom 9/15/09 11:47am

The Cultivator

Listening to Steve Durels ponder the challenges of renovating a distressed building, you could hardly be chided for mistaking the SL Green leasing director for an interior decorator.

The out-of-place lobby chandeliers, the dreary old windows, the demolished floors, the bathrooms in disrepair: It was no wonder the beleaguered office tower to which he Read More