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The Shops at Columbus Circle earlier in 2021.

Leases · Analysis

Force Majeure in 2022: What to Know for Commercial Leases

By Jordan M. Engelhardt and Robert L. Baker Jr.

Gavel

Mitchell Kossoff Charged With Fraud for Allegedly Stealing Clients’ Escrow Funds

By Nicholas Rizzi

An Amazon sorting employee pulls a cart with parcels in a distribution center.

Labor Board Grants New Union Election for Amazon’s Alabama Warehouse

By Celia Young

Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo sits at a decorated table at the Tribeca Festival looking off to the right, while figures in the background have their backs turned to him.

Legal · Politics & Real Estate

Assembly Finds ‘Overwhelming Evidence’ Cuomo Sexually Harassed Women

By Celia Young

TOPSHOT - People stand beneath fall foliage and before high-rise buildings of the Manhattan city skyline in Central Park in New York on November 5, 2021. - merica's northeast is famous for its red, orange and yellow fall foliage but experts say climate change is dulling the colors and delaying peak season, causing concern for the region's multibillion-dollar "leaf-peeping" tourist industry. Warmer temperatures and heavier rainfall are keeping leaves greener for longer while extreme weather events like heatwaves and storms are stripping trees bare before getting to autumn, according to conservationists. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP) (Photo by ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)

Legal · Sustainability

City’s Carbon Emissions Law Could Actually Save Landlords Billions: Study

By Celia Young

Eighty Seven Park located next to Champlain Towers South.

Design + Construction · Construction

Construction of Eighty Seven Park Condo Led to Surfside Collapse: Suit

By Julia Echikson

Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo sits at a decorated table at the Tribeca Festival looking off to the right, while figures in the background have their backs turned to him.

Cuomo Sex Offense Charge May Be ‘Defective’: DA

By Celia Young

245 Park Avenue.

HNA-Backed Owner of 245 Park Filed for Bankruptcy, Blaming SL Green

By Celia Young

Robert Durst.

Robert Durst Indicted for Murder of First Wife, Kathleen Durst

By Celia Young

Elise Wagner speaking at the 2021 New York Women Executives in Real Estate Woman of the Year gala.

Diversity and Inclusion · Legal

Kramer Levin’s Elise Wagner Named WX Woman of the Year

By Anna Staropoli

Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Legal · Politics & Real Estate

Cuomo Charged With Misdemeanor Sex Offense in Albany

By Celia Young

Municipal workers from New York Police Department, Sanitation Department, Fire Department, Department of Education, Department of Correction, Parks Department, City Health and Hospitals, Metropolitan Transit Authority and other city office workers mandated by mayor to get vaccinated against COVID-19 disease by November 1, 2021 or will be left out of work and out of paycheck. More than 5 thousand protesters participated and they were joined by Republican Party mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa.

Coronavirus · Legal

Judge Says NYC Vaccine Mandate Can Take Effect, Despite Ongoing Lawsuit

By Celia Young

Geox US Affiliate to Pay $9M in Back Rent to Jeff Sutton’s Wharton

By Nicholas Rizzi and Chava Gourarie

A group of union advocates write "Union" onto a fence erected around Amazon's JFK8 Staten Island Warehouse.

Coronavirus · Legal

Workers at Staten Island Amazon Warehouse File to Hold Union Election

By Celia Young

Robert Durst.

Robert Durst Charged with Murder for Killing Ex-Wife

By Anna Staropoli

Robert Durst appears before Judge Mark E. Windham during court proceedings in his murder trial at Inglewood Courthouse on May 18, 2021 in Inglewood, California. The real estate scion has been charged with the murder of longtime friend Susan Berman in 2000. Durst's murder trial was delayed more than a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Robert Durst Sentenced to Life in Prison

By Celia Young

Bill de Blasio

Legal · Politics & Real Estate

We’re Not Gonna Pay: Hotel Owners Sue NYC to Halt Severance Payouts

By Aaron Short