T-Mobile Drops Blackberry From Retail Stores
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C Spire Launches Contest To Bring Fiber To The Home In Mississippi
City Launches Wireless Corridor Challenge and WiredNYC
Capital One Takes 250K SF at 299 Park Avenue
From Construction to Refinancing, Capital for Hotels is Pouring In
Brookfield Property Partners Looks to Buy Brookfield Office Properties
Nomura Boosts Wi-Fi and Technology at New Midtown Office
Comcast Provides Broadband to 220,000 Low-Income Families
Pull Up a Chair: The Latest in Furniture Trends
Juice Generation Makes Brooklyn Foray
Amping Up the Acceleration for Aspiring Real Estate Companies
CityMD Inks Latest Lease at 1140 AoA
Starwood Property Trust Leases 12,750 Square Feet at Busy 1140 Avenue of the Americas
King & Grove Make 1140 AoA New Home
CompStak’s Danny Shachar on Real Estate’s Tech Renaissance
Community Health Center Callen-Lorde Inks Deal One Block from Headquarters
Halpern Real Estate Ventures Receives $26 Million Loan for Lower East Side Rental Development
NBC-UNI and Lexus Use Social Media to Help Film Commercials Under Brooklyn Bridge
Conrad Hotel Creates App, Offers Wi-Fi for High-End Guests
Check Out Heartland Brewery’s Floorplates, Before it Vacates from Original Home
TerraCRG Arranges $9 million Downtown Brooklyn Sale
Designer Kara Ross, Wife of Stephen Ross, Leases Flagship Retail Store
Midtown South Rents Up 44 Percent as Tech Spurs Double Digit Growth Nationwide
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Some Needed Perspective on Sluggish Leasing
Iron Hound Management Secures $406 Million in Two New York City Loan Deals
Massey Knakal Arranges Construction Loan for Brooklyn Multifamily Property
Pixafy Relocates to 810 Seventh Avenue
American Realty Capital NYRR to Acquire Viceroy Hotel
GroundLink Car Service to Offer Wi-Fi Using Karma 4G Hotspots
Appboy Relocating to 263 West 38th Street
TD Bank to Replace Shuttered Greenwich Village Barnes & Noble
Manganaro’s Staves Off Closure, Inks New Lease
Small but Feisty: Tiny Submarkets With Big Heart
Two Foodie Events Worth Talking About
Facebook, Homeland Security Support NYU-Poly Cyber Security Week Hacking Competition
Sumitomo Inks 100K Sublease at 300 Madison
Coldwell Banker Commercial Acquires Kenneth Zund Realty
Capital One Syndicates $220 M. American Realty Capital Loan
AT&T Expands Digital Life Service in New Jersey, Upstate New York
Barclays Center’s First Year, By The Numbers
PlayLab and Family Design Team Makes a Splash With Floating + POOL
Having Faster Internet Will Make You Richer, Study Says
The Bush Push: Tribeca Associates Founder Elliott Ingerman on Bush Tower
God’s Love Takes Temp. Space in Brooklyn
Cornell Signs Direct Lease at 230 Park Avenue
After The William, Warner Hospitality Eyes New York Growth
68 Blocks of Office Space, All In Excess of 100,000 Square Feet, Currently on Market
An Update on the Battle Between Fear and Greed
City Pushes for Smoke-Free Residential
Former Williams Club Booked as Boutique Hotel
Barclays Center Draws Mixed Reviews from Hockey Fans
JVL Ventures Takes Sublease at 230 Park Avenue
JLL Marketing Retail Space at Philip House
Nearly 100K S/F Set Aside for Smaller Tenants at One WTC
Construction Managers Versus General Contractors: The Inside Scoop
Stempel Bennett Renews on Third Avenue
52 Vanderbilt Welcomes Shazam
Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Take 40K in Midtown
Multiple Deals Signed at 370 Lexington Avenue
The Doneger Group Renews at 463 Seventh Avenue
WeWork Expands Downtown Footprint
Eastern Consolidated Hires Matthew Sparks Amid Investment Sales Team Growth
The Remaking of Astor Place Is Now Underway
What’s Changed In Our Business Since Lehman Brothers Fell
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New Report Surveys Global Parking Authorities
Wisdom Tree Investments Grows With 37,923-SF Lease at 245 Park Avenue
Financial Tenants Commit to 527 Madison Avenue
Cast-Iron Loft Nets $25 M.
Chelsea Retail Condo Sells for $8.7 M.
From the Gut: HFZ Capital’s Ziel Feldman on the Making of a Gut Renovation Empire
Tishman to Reopen the Rainbow Room Next Fall
Amcom Software Signs Deal at 256 West 38th Street
Manganaro’s on its Way Out Following $16 M. Deal
Manhattan Vacancy vs. Availability by the Numbers
Commercial Real Estate and the Next Mayor
Bill Rudin Among Leaders of Downtown Alliance Tech Initiative
Judge Orders 650 Fifth Avenue Ownership to Forfeit Assets
Partnership Acquires Bush Tower Leasehold
Snøhetta Debuts Far Rockaway Library Redesign
ICR Signs On at 685 Third Avenue
Eastern Consolidated Sells Murray Hill Package with Special Tree
The Downtown Migration: Since January 2012, 94 Companies Moved to Lower Manhattan
C&W Loses Brokers But Retains Agency at 535-545 Fifth Ave.
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Rogers Partners Inks in Tribeca
After 20 Years, Samuel French Leaves 45 West 25th Street
CrossFit Buffs Up on Upper West Side
Five Mile Capital Partners Opens New York Office
Verizon to Sell Portion of 140 West Street to Magnum Real Estate for $274M
Survey Ranks U.S. Cities Based on Average Internet Connection Speeds—And New York Doesn’t Fare Well
The Orbach Group Deal Nets 22 Buildings for $150 M.
Rebuilt Seaside Park, NJ Boardwalk Up in Flames
Parkview International Signs Triple-Digit Deal at Carnegie Hall Tower
Commercial Space Tight as Tech Continues to Surge in Flatiron: Report
Understanding the Verizon-Fire Island Drama in Five Easy Steps
Aquila Management to Relocate to Tower 45
Check Out Stripes Group’s New Home at 402 West 13th Street
Signal Boosters Help Wireless Customers Get Service in Old NYC Buildings
CPC Approves World’s Largest Ferris Wheel for Staten Island
PNC Bank Renewal Gives Hope Amid Positive News for Financial Industry
Harbor Group International Acquires UES Residential Building for $16.15M
Land Rush: Developers Seeking Brooklyn Over Manhattan
The Importance of Tourism
GCA Savvian Renews at RXR’s 1330 Avenue of the Americas
Cohen Brothers Promotes Marc Horowitz to Senior VP
JetBlue Inks Deal to Install Wi-Fi on 130 Planes
Mark Messier Named CEO of Kingsbridge Sports Facility
For First Time in a Century, Cushman & Wakefield Rebrand
American Realty Capital Hungry for Fast Food
Feds Sue to Seize Dirty Assets
Time Warner Supports Broadband Research Through $1.6 Million Partnership
Law Firm Nicoletti Gonson Spinner Renews at 555 5th
Midtown East Development Site Sells for $69 M.
Blue State Digital Bringing Presidential Pedigree to 101 Avenue of the Americas
Interior Designs Setting the Tone at New Restaurants
12 Years After Terror Attack, Tourism, Retail Surge Across Lower Manhattan
We Need to Clear the Air About Midtown
Mort Zuckerman Reportedly Hit and Ran
JFK’s TWA Terminal to Get Hip With Standard Hotel Outpost
U.K. Telecommunications Company Shuts Down Dial-Up Service For Good
Lawyer’s View: Restructuring and Distress
Joe Sitt Offers $1.4 B. for Empire State Building Title, Master Lease
The Suite Life: Campus Evolution Villages Reimagines Dorm Life For the 21st Century
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Fights for Broadband for N.Y.’s Rural Communities
Design in Mind: TPG Architecture’s Jim Phillips on the New Office Aesthetic
Lawyer’s View: International Lenders
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Preservationist Park Slopers Slam Hospital Expansion Plans
Three New Tenants Sign on at 20 West 37th Street
Malkins Reject Offers, Push Forward with Empire State Building REIT
Hottest Submarkets All Found on Manhattan’s West Side
August Jobs Report Discouraging Enough to Help Keep Interest Rates From Going Up Too Fast
9,995-Square-Foot UES Townhouse Trades Hands in Complex Transaction
Barclays Center Seeks Second-Year ‘Efficiencies’
Do You Swim With The Sharks?
Lawyer’s View: Mezzanine & Preferred Equity
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Fortis Plans Mixed Use Maiden Lane Development
Lawyer’s View: CMBS
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Norway’s Wealth Fund to Acquire Stake in Times Square Tower for $684M
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EB-5 Funding On Rise, Long Arm of Law Watchful
Savanna in Talks to Acquire 1 Court Square
Beacon’s Closet Relocates Flagship Brooklyn Store
Gerson Lehrman Group Consolidated in Grand Central
Auction Date for 251 Park Avenue South Postponed Until October
West Elm Takes 150,000 Square Feet in Dumbo
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‘SuperPier’ Slated for Pier 57 in Meatpacking
Foot Locker to Make Way for 90,000 SF of Herald Square Retail in 2015
Blackstone Mortgage Trust Execs Talk Growth, Strategy at New Commercial REIT on Heels of 2Q13 Results
Eurotech Signs Sublease at 135 West 50th Street
NYPD Signs 15-Year Relocation Deal
Verizon Wireless Service Coming to Subways
Check Out New Suite 1521 Showroom at 980 Madison
Dentsu Takes Additional Floor at 32 Avenue of the Americas
Nonprofit Signs For 14,567 SF at 120 Wall, Utilizes New Incentive Program
Etrali Signs Lease at 1500 Broadway
Only ‘70 Days’ Left of 2013, and Time Is Flying By
Towering Data Center Lands Another Tenant
AT&T to Expand Cellular Service in Commercial Buildings
Downtown Brooklyn Is The Next Midtown South, Says Survey
Stephen Ross Donates $200 M. to Alma Mater
How Much Was Friends’ Pad Really Worth?
70 Percent of Adults Have Broadband
South Bronx Boutique Hotel Thrives, But Will It Help Borough?
CBRE Analysis Backs President’s FIRPTA Proposal
Reed Elsevier Closes Deal at 230 Park Avenue
The “Big 21” Mega-Monoliths of Manhattan
Exponential Interactive Moving to Pre-built Space at 292 Madison Avenue
Feil Family Battles over Fortune
New Connect2Compete Campaign Aims to Bring Affordable Internet to NYC Students
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Frank McCourt Snaps Up Hudson Yards Site for $167M
Eastern Consolidated’s Adelaide Polsinelli On The Art Of The Off-Market Deal
The Great Wall: The Hurdles U.S. Brokers Face in China
Transit Wireless to Bring Broadband to New York’s 277 Underground Stations
Lee Hecht Harrison to Relocate to 230 Park Avenue
Pace University Dorm Opens, One More in the Pipeline
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