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Durst: BofA Reduction Won’t Hurt Us

Leasing executives at the Durst Organization say that Bank of America’s decision late last week to reduce its office footprint in midtown won’t create a pocket of vacancy in the landlord’s office portfolio. Read More

Bark House: Endless Dogsuit Done

After nearly 10 years of hounding, the bank that serves as executor for tobacco heiress Doris Duke’s billion-dollar estate has agreed to compensate the caretakers of her beloved dogs.

The settlement in the long-running dispute over the $100,000 Duke dog trust came in a stipulation filed earlier this month at the New York State Surrogate Read More

Charles Schwab Shells Out for U.S. Trust

We all saw how Gerald Levin, Time Warner Inc.’s chief, stood up in front of the cameras without a necktie at the Jan. 10 announcement of the sale of his company to America Online Inc. It was a symbol of his acquiescence to the new economy and the ascendance of the Internet. He’d been taken Read More