Near Barclays Center, the Rave that Wasn’t (But Might Be)
Commercial Property Markets in a World of Rising Rates
Forest City Ratner Sues the City for More Atlantic Yards Tax Breaks
NASA Launches Lunar Broadband Connection
Empire Outlets and NY Wheel Get City Council Approval
World Gets First View of 1 World Trade Center Model Offices
City Council Approves Woolworth Building’s Additional Pavilions
Getting Along: Some Tips for Brokers and Lawyers
60,000 Expected at NYC Halloween Parade, Retailers Unafraid
Babies Angry about South Slope CrossFit
Check Out Jamestown’s Long Island City Project
Fon Opens NYC Office, And U.S. Finally Gets Its Wi-Fi-Sharing Router
Colliers Handles Leasing, Repositioning of Madison Ave. Art Deco Tower
Continental Grain Takes Full Floor Sublease at GM Building
REIT-Specific Trading Platform Launched
Of Burgers and Theater Districts
Five Retail Units Planned for Avenue A Development
AT&T Boosts Jobs to Support Booming Southern Expansion
Universal Music Group Inks Renewal at 1755 Broadway
5Pointz Artists Win Another Small Stay of Building Demolition
Developers Help Fund Incubator at Willets Point
Vacant Five-Story NoMad Building Hits the Market
Trump Hotel Uses Wi-Fi to Connect Guests to 24/7 News
Tending the Garden: An Annotated Look at the New MSG
Pratt Institute Launches Fashion/Design Incubator
Brookfield Place Entry Hall Pavilion Opens
AdRoll Takes Former LivingSocial Space at 101 Fifth Avenue
Surprise! Your Letter of Intent is a Lease
Just West of Center, Celluloid Scenes Replaced by New Development
Midtown Topless Bar Reaches for Sky With $13 Million Air Rights Purchase
Related Taps Artist Thomas Heatherwork for Hudson Yards Centerpiece
Verizon Boasts Strong Earnings and Broadband Customer Increase
Jones Lang LaSalle’s Peter Nicoletti Talks Global Loan Sales and Foreign Markets
East Village Synagogue, Slated for Conversion, Now Under Review for Landmarking
Real Estate Industry Chips In for de Blasio, but is it Too Late?
Willy Walker Keeps His Bets on Fannie and Freddie While Preparing to Branch Out
Brause Realty Welcomes Two New Tenants to 254 West 31st Street
Garden State of Mind: Architect Murray Beynon on the Renovation of Madison Square Garden
Wolfe Expands Fiber in NYC Market
Times Square Marches On
Bark Hot Dogs Inks Deal for Former Back Fence on Bleecker Street
Global One to Re-position Marble Hill Projects
HookLogic Signs Sublease at 99 Hudson Street
What New York Jets Quarterback Geno Smith Has In Common With Midtown Rents
Sales Market in Manhattan Submarket Not Leading the Way, But Impactful
DelShah Hires Thor High Street Advisors to Market 170 Mercer Street
Graffiti Artist Calls New Trade Center an “Eyesore”
Carrier Ethernet to Exceed 75 Percent of Global Business by 2017, Study Says
Bain & Co. Relocating to the Grace Building
Repeat Business: Take Nothing For Granted
Gruss Capital Management Takes Full Floor in 510 Madison Avenue
Real Estate Entrepreneur Seeks “Really Nice” Girl
Israeli National Airline Relocating to 100 Wall Street
World Trade Center Concourse Bustles for First Time Since 9/11
Real Estate Industry Poised for Midtown East Rezoning Victory
American Realty Capital NYRR to Acquire 1440 Broadway
Check Out Newly Renovated Madison Square Garden
The MET Gains Rights to Charge Admission with Lease Amendment
HC Wainwright Moves Office to 430 Park Avenue
Medical Administrator Renews Lease at 253 West 35th Street
Under Armour Signs 20,500-SF Lease for First NYC Store
Garden Party: MSG Unveils Transformation
Scratch Uses Wi-Fi to Offer Almost Free Mobile Service
Boiling Water, Hydrochloric Acid, Knives: Not Your Typical Deal-Making Tools
Check Out American Realty Capital’s 218 West 18th Street
You Don’t Have to Suffer Through Slow Hotel Wi-Fi in Silence
Vision Critical Takes Full Floor at 440 Lafayette Street
Starbucks Crashes Tea Party with UES Teavana Store
Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inks Deal at Milk Studios
In New York, Business As Usual After Shutdown
Finding Value Below and Above Grade
Downtown Manhattan Continues to Surprise
CRE/Tech Intersect Chats With Commercial Real Estate and Tech Firms
Architecture Firm Signs Deal at 31 Penn Plaza
Williamsburg Waterfront to Get 400,000-SF Office Building
American Realty Capital to Buy Cole in $11.2B Deal
A Walk Along the High Line
Vonage Acquires Vocalocity in $130M Deal
LES Soho House Gets Liquor License Approval
Block of Brooklyn Industrial Buildings Sells for $6.6 M.
South Slope Development Site Trades for $8.5M
What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Good Guy’ and What’s It Really Going to Cost?
How Much New Office Product?!
Occluded Sky, Okay: Landmarks Approves Extell’s Plan to Cantilever Nordstrom Tower Over Art Students League
NYU-Poly Professors Win Google Research Award
Cushman & Wakefield COO Sues, Claims Discrimination
Designer Derek Lam Ditches Soho HQ for 13,350-SF in NoMad
Blink Fitness Continues Expansion, Grabs Space in Penn Plaza
Midtown South: Hitting the Ceiling
Welcome to the Bio-Dome
Dewberry Engineers Inks 21K at 31 Penn Plaza
A Man About Midtown South: William Macklowe on the Tech Influx
Verizon Expands Internet Safety Platform
Spillover from Midtown South Benefits Nearby Submarkets
TDC, Rockefeller Group File Permits for Massive Flushing Commons Project
JLL Report Chronicles “Remarkable” Post-Sandy Comeback
More Than 35 Percent of Midtown South Buildings Fully Leased
Volume Down, Values Up, Risk In Vogue for 3Q13 Investment Sales
Canaccord Genuity Subleases to Jaguar Growth Properties at 535 Madison Avenue
Time Warner Inks $600 Million Fiber Deal
Westside Market Plans to Open Fifth Location
Tax Exemption for Related’s Hudson Yards Project Approved
Tag, You’re It! 5Pointz Street Art Headquarters Wins Stay of Execution
Barbarian Group Leaves Tribeca for Flatiron
Eastern Markets 10,000-SF Soho Retail Space, Formerly Gourmet Garage
GT Nexus Relocates Opens Office 55 Water Street
Institute of Culinary Education Inks 71K at Brookfield Place
Hey, Spec: Can We Talk Density?
Chinese Conglomerate Acquires One Chase Manhattan Plaza
Construction Spending Will Eclipse Boom Years: Building Congress
South Street Seaport Breaks Ground
Keith McNally to Replace Pulino’s With French Restaurant
Brooklyn Multi-Family Outperforms in August
Bloomingdales Expands by 47,763-SF at 919 Third Avenue
CBRE Appointed Leasing Agent after Selling West Chelsea Commercial Condo
MHP and Soho Properties In Contract to Acquire 560 Seventh Ave. for $61.5 M
Vornado Resolves Extell Dispute, Will Build Luxury Condo at 220 Central Park South
Basic Broadband Errors Cost Britons 100 Million Megabytes Per Year
Developers Optimistic at 5th Annual Masters of Real Estate Conference Despite Political Uncertainty
RXR Realty Sues, Claims One Worldwide Plaza Purchase Was “Sabotaged”
Secure Wifi Among top Tech Concerns for Event Planners
Famous Footwear Inks 7,800-SF Deal at 48-50 West 14th
Brodsky Inks Four Tenants at 157 Columbus Avenue
Compass Group USA Takes Space at 31 Penn Plaza
The Bustle of Midtown Manhattan, Right in My Own Backyard
EcoHealth Alliance Renews at 460 West 34th Street
NYC Teams Up With Gowex To Expand Free Wifi
You’re a “Good Guy”… What Does That Mean and What’s It Going to Cost You?
New York Times Leasing Floor As Part of “Restacking” Effort
NIC + ZOE Inks 2,900-Square Foot Extension and Expansion at 561 Seventh Avenue
Ivanhoe Cambridge Acquires Managing Interest in 1211 Avenue of the Americas for $850M
On Top of the World: Durst Organization Director of Leasing Eric Engelhardt on Leasing Up 1 WTC
Delshah Scoops Christopher Street Building for $27 M.
Taconic’s Paul Pariser and Kevin Davis: Lower East Side State of Mind
Boingo Wireless Acquires Advanced Wireless Group
Downtown Manhattan, Uptown Chic
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Inks Sublease at 277 Park Avenue
Westchester’s Gluten-Free By The Way Bakery to Make Manhattan Debut
Software Company Inks 10-Year Deal at 3 Park Avenue
The Future Sees 11.7 Million Square Feet Of Space at World Trade Center
The Renewed Art of Networking: Why It’s More Important Than Ever
Is The Ceiling About To Collapse on Real Estate?
Brewer Lobbies Free Wifi at NYC Airports
Once Creative Hubs, Bushwick and Williamsburg Targeted for Bank Invasion
Colliers to Relocate to 57,000 SF at 666 Fifth Avenue
Morning Links
Verizon Expands 4G LTE Network Upstate
Making Dollars and Sense of Value Engineering
New York City HHC Takes 220K at 55 Water Street
Murphy & McGonigle Relocate to 1185 AoA
Partnership Behind Watchtower Buy Taps CPEX to Lease Retail Space
Planet Fitness Inks Another Gym in New York
Chinese Firm Signs Preliminary Deal As Atlantic Yards Majority Investor
UBS Inks 120,000-Square-Foot Deal at 787 Seventh Avenue
51 Astor Lands First Tenant
Top Commercial Mortgage Brokers Under 35
British University Opens Soho Campus
City Approves Luxury High-Rise Development at 5Pointz
AT&T Increases Connectivity Speeds Across the Country
Brooklyn Flea Signs 47,000-Square-Foot Lease at 185 Wythe Avenue
The Viceroy New York Debuts, a Rare Luxury Hotel Tower In the Land of Luxury Condo Towers
Tech/Information Sector Creates 262,000 Jobs in the City
Check Out New Prebuilt at 555 Fifth Avenue
Charming Charlie Inks 15,500-SF Deal for First Manhattan Location
Law Firm Signs Huge Renewal Downtown
Waggener Edstrom Inks Lease at 110 Leroy Street
In Spite of Government Policy or Because of It?
Jones Lang LaSalle Brings Global Loan Portfolio to Market on Behalf of Malkin Holdings
Park Central Hotel Boosts Technology
The Garment District Name Remains the Same, but a New Logo Glows
CBRE Named Exclusive Agent at 1407 Broadway
Morning links
The Annotated Manhattan Office Market, Third Quarter 2013
Comcast’s Internet Essentials Brings Broadband Access to Five Live-Income Chicago Schools
City Approves 13-Story Cooper Square Dorm
Third Quarter Optimism Signals Strong Fourth Quarter Push
Cornell University Renews, Expands at 575 Lexington Avenue
The Manhattanization of Williamsburg
A New Twist on 3Q13
Meister Seelig & Fein Inks Deal at 125 Park Avenue
YogaWorks Building First Brooklyn Location
Google Helpouts Could Be an Asset to Brokers
Brooks Brothers to Launch Steakhouse
Sankeys Nightclub to Open on West 36th Street on Halloween
The Tech Whisperer: ABS Partners’ Ashkán Zandieh
The Company Man: Seth Pinsky Reflects on EDC and Looks Ahead at RXR
Real Estate Entrepreneur Is First to Win Golden Bridge Award
Sunshine by the Square Foot
State Probing $10 Sale of World Trade Center Name
Two Trees Plan to Front-Load Affordable Domino Units Wins Friends and Foes
540 Madison Avenue Continues to Draw Financial Services Tenants
The 2013 Owners Magazine
Paul Pariser, Taconic Investment Partners
MaryAnne Gilmartin, Forest City Ratner Companies
New York City Adds 314,500 Nonfarm Jobs
Douglas Durst, Durst Organization
Justin Elghanayan, Rockrose Development Corp.
Jeff Blau, Related Companies
William Rudin, Rudin Management Company
Jeff Gural, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank
Kalmon Dolgin, Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates
David Levinson, L&L Holding Company
Mortimer Zuckerman, Boston Properties
Leslie Wohlman Himmel, Himmel + Meringoff
Jonathan Gray, Blackstone Group
Joseph Moinian, The Moinian Group
Jared Kushner, Kushner Companies
Winston Fisher, Fisher Brothers
Stephen Meringoff, Himmel + Meringoff
Veronica Mainetti, Sorgente Group of America
Albert Laboz, United American Land
Michael Phillips, Jamestown
Robert Lapidus, L&L Holding Company
Tommy Craig, Hines
Charles Bendit, Taconic Investment Partners
Anthony Malkin, Malkin Holdings
K. Thomas Elghanayan, TF Cornerstone
Scott Galin, Handler Real Estate Organization
Eddie Hidary, Hidrock Realty Inc.
Rob Speyer, Tishman Speyer
Larry Silverstein, Silverstein Properties
David Greene, MHP
Earle Altman, ABS Real Estate Partners
Laurie Golub, HFZ Capital Group
David Zar, Zar Property NY
Jason Pizer, Trinity Real Estate
Steven Roth, Vornado Realty Trust
James Wacht, Lee & Associates
Marc Holliday, SL Green Realty
Adam Parkoff, The Parkoff Organization
Ziel Feldman, HFZ Capital Group
Gregg Schenker, ABS Partners Real Estate
Kate Goodman, ATCO
Dennis Friedrich, Brookfield Office Properties
Albert Behler, Paramount Group
Movin’ On Up
The Giving Tree
Norway Takes Manhattan
On Top of the World, Icarus Lives (On the 75th Floor)
Three Strikes And It Could Be An ‘Out’ For Commercial Real Estate
A Tale of Two Candidates
No Sleep Till Brooklyn
Unique Fifth Avenue Retail Space Is on the Market
Fans Push to Make John Coltrane’s Former Home a Museum
Mayer Brown Signs Lease at 1221 Avenue of the Americas
Convene Conference Centers Bring Cutting-Edge Technology to Commercial Retail Spaces
One57’s Troublesome Crane Is At It Again: 57th Street Shuts Down Because of Yet Another Construction Incident
A Farewell to the Plain Old Pantry
Carnegie Tower Locks in Another Renewal
Tarte Cosmetics Inks 15K at 1375 Broadway
GoGo Tech Relocates and Expands at 1407 Broadway
Fairway Continues Expansion, Inks in FiDi
Luxoft Relocation Downtown Illustrates Broader Tech Shift
Hong Kong Firm Scoops Fifth Avenue Hotel
Brooklyn’s Fulton Street Gets Free Wi-Fi
Masters of Real Estate Conference to Be Held on October 16
Whole Foods on Track for Mid-2014 Williamsburg Opening
Plaza College Inks 40,000-SF Relocation Deal at Forest Hills Tower
Pei Partnership Architects Renews at 257 Park Avenue South
Facebook Partners With Cisco To Expand Free Wi-Fi For Check-Ins
Prosek Partners to Trade Empire State Building for NoMad
Check Out Available Space at 1051 Third Avenue
Eastern Markets $9.8 Million UES Mixed-Use Building
Springhouse Pays $18.2 Million for Brooklyn Apartment Building
Alok Industries Inks Deal at 105 Madison Avenue
Even as Manhattan Leasing Market Segments, Landlords Reap Advantages
FAA Panel Says Wi-Fi Is Safe On Planes
Sitt to Pay $104 M. for Fifth Ave. Duo
ADP to Open 24,000-SF Innovation Lab in Chelsea
Room & Board Cuts Deal for Chelsea Flagship
Empire State Building Goes Public
Five Midtown East Buildings That Could Be Landmarked
Duane Reade Boasts 1 Million Twitter Followers
Google Looks Beyond Headquarters in Pending 10th Avenue Deal
11,300-SF Synagogue Hits the Market for $14 Million
Magazine Trade Group Relocating to 757 Third Avenue
Winners and Laggards in the NYC Jobs Market
New York City Hotels Are Booming, But Beware Overexposure
Stephen Starr to Seek Restaurant at 222 Bowery
Sold! Auction.com Looks to Revolutionize Selling Real Estate
Pavlov Media Reaches 10 Megabits in NYC and Chicago Markets
Bushburg Properties Acquires 8-16 Nevins Street in Downtown Brooklyn for $16.2M
Greenberg Traurig’s Stephen Rabinowitz Talks Brooklyn Bowl and Unconventional Deals
Like Father, Like Son: Murray Hill Properties’ David Sturner
Morning Links
Sam Chandan Takes the Pulse of the Banks
Running For a Cause
Verizon, Optimum Cable Ranks High Among East Coast Customers
Joshua Stein On the Best Ways to Sell Real Estate
The Universal Church Scoops Northern Manhattan House of the Holy
Beth Israel Inks 98,913-SF Extension at 111 Eighth Avenue
Scottish University Takes Soho Space
Midtown Availability Plunges in Third Quarter
Here’s a List of Stupid Things the Government Spends Money On