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Eastern Consolidated Senior Director Aliza Avital (photo credit: Hannah Mattix)

Locked & Loaded: Multi-talented broker Aliza Avital does it all

The broker in the canary-yellow Dolce & Gabbana overcoat—a festive and vernal touch that was perfectly suitable for this year’s bipolar winter—may be better dressed than most of the commercial brokerage industry, and could certainly lay claim to being one of the toughest in the business as well.

Aliza Avital, thin and towering and striking like a modern-day skyscraper, sat in the conference room in the offices of Eastern Consolidated, where she had just been promoted to senior director. Read More

By Eliot Brown 11/14/07 10:05pm

Brill Building Sells for $151 M.

Just over a year after it bought 1619 Broadway for $92 million, Murray Hill Properties has sold the building to Stonehenge Partners for $151 million, city records show.

The 175,000-square-foot office tower, known as the Brill Building, boasts striking gold-colored ornamentation over its entrance, which sits by 49th Street.

The Observer Read More