Jazz at Lincoln Center is moving its offices to 3 Columbus Circle where it has just signed a deal for 30,653 square feet, The Commercial Observer has learned. 3 Columbus Circle. The center is taking the bulk of the 750,000-square-foot building’s 12th f... »
Gregg Weisser knows how to handle a hot house. The newly anointed executive managing director of the Moinian Group, and volunteer fireman with the Kismet Fire Department in Fire Island, New York, is no stranger to putting out fires, be it a burning bea... »
The Nippon Life Insurance Company will be moving out of its current offices at 521 Fifth Avenue for the Durst Organization-owned 655 Third Avenue. The company, a U.S. subsidiary of the Japan-based insurance company, will be taking the entire 16th floor... »
Dig in! The new Apple store in Grand Central Terminal is a lovely, understated project in one of the city's premier public spaces. All the same, some sour apples have been complaining that the Cult of Steve has been paying below market rents for its sp... »
New York landlord Charles Cohen says he’s not concerned about opening vacancies in his portfolio. In the past year, two large tenants relocated from buildings Mr. Cohen owns. 3 Park Avenue. The moves came when the American Society of Mechanical Enginee... »
Seth Pinsky, head of the city’s Economic Development Corporation, said that the recent motions to landmark buildings in downtown Brooklyn wouldn’t prohibit landlords there from attracting tenants in search of 21st-Century accommodations. Mr. Pinsky gav... »
Endurance Reinsurance needed more office space. But growing wasn’t going to be as easy as just tacking a few new floors onto its existing footprint. The firm had split its operations between two closely located buildings on Third Avenue, 750 and 767 Th... »
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 N... »
President Obama (via Getty) Since Gawker came calling Atlanta Jewish Times owner and publisher Andrew Adler's no-good very bad week has only gotten worse. Now the Secret Service is interested in his writing. Adler published an incendiary column on Ja... »
Chris Ward, the former New York head of the Port Authority, is stepping into a new role, as an executive vice president of the large international construction company Dragados. Chris Ward. (Photo by Daniel Neuner) Mr. Ward, credited with helping to de... »
Room to grow. (davidboeke/Flickr) It turns out a one-liner in Mayor Bloomberg's State of the City may indeed be one of the biggest development proposals of the waning days of his administration. Last Thursday, the mayor declared, "In the area around Gr... »
Chrysler Building voted everyone's favorite skyscraper. [Curbed] Manhattan's only Underground Railroad stop celebrated in Chelsea. [Daily News] Some crash: Billboard collapses onto B.Q.E., Brooklyn rowhouse. [Journal] Dark apartments have their bright... »
Pace University has reached an agreement to move into 140 William Street, taking the entire 50,000 square foot building for its dance and visual arts programs, The Commercial Observer has learned. The school will be relocating from its current space at... »
Recent polls show former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum heading to a close second or maybe even winning the Iowa Caucuses tomorrow night. The sudden surge coming at exactly the right time for Mr. Santorum's prospects, but it may come too late for h... »
You don't have to get the hell out of dodge to enjoy some promotional holiday WiFi. A week after Skype gifted free WiFi at 50 airports around the U.S., the company is announcing free WiFi over New Year for New York City denizens. According to The Next ... »
