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Fast-growing residential brokerage firm grabs big office in Downtown Brooklyn
Skip to main content Fast-growing residential brokerage firm Compass is opening a large office in Downtown Brooklyn, establishing a prominent...

The Architect Richard Meier Steps Down After Harassment Allegations
Seven months after taking a leave of absence following sexual harassment allegations, the prominent architect Richard Meier is stepping down from...

Powerful new incentive to invest in low-income city neighborhoods
Skip to main content Powerful new incentive to invest in low-income city neighborhoods Tax reform includes unprecedented benefit for building in...

Midtown office leasing reaches 12-year high, CBRE says
Skip to main content Office tenants leased the most space in midtown Manhattan this year since 2006, with deals by Evercore Inc. and JPMorgan Chase...

A better answer than commercial rent control
Skip to main content Rather than dictate lease terms, provide landlords incentives to retain small businesses We’ve all seen it, from Flushing to...

Union Square building hits market with $32 million asking price
Skip to main content The owner of the building that housed a TGI Friday's in Union Square has put the property up for sale with an asking price of ...

Morgan Stanley brokers, bankers to get new tech-friendly offices
Morgan Stanley is remodeling. About 1.2 million square feet of office space will get an overhaul in the next 15 months to put technology experts...

Apollo to buy $1 billion of energy investments from GE capital
General Electric Co. agreed to sell about $1 billion of equity investments to Apollo Global Management as the downtrodden manufacturer extends a...

Columbia mum on postdocs’ vote to unionize
About 2,000 postdoctoral researchers and associate research scientists at Columbia University have voted to unionize through the United Auto...

Hedge fund Elliott Management wants to shed hard-nosed image
Manhattan-based hedge fund Elliott Management has launched an effort to highlight its emphasis on facilitating sound corporate governance in...

Democrats raising significant funds in bid to take control of state Senate
Democrats running for state Senate have raised $1.35 million since mid-July—37.8% more than they raised in the same period in 2016, according to...

Sales of new Manhattan condos nose-dive
Sales of new condos in Manhattan were down 30% in the third quarter compared with the same period in each of the previous three years. [] To view...

Wall Street donors tipping toward Democrats in congressional races
The finance industry is on pace for the first time in a decade to donate more money to Democratic congressional challengers and incumbents than...

Wall Street donors tipping toward Dems in congressional races
The finance industry is on pace for the first time in a decade to donate more money to Democratic congressional challengers and incumbents than to...

Sales of new Manhattan condos nose-dive
It is deal time for buyers looking to purchase an apartment in one of New York’s new condominium buildings, many with high ceilings, large windows...

Mount Sinai partnership to scale youth addiction treatments
The Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai and the Center on Addiction have formed a strategic alliance to invest in new addiction treatments for...

Building morale through activism (just don't call it politics)
When the partners at Work & Co arrived at their Brooklyn headquarters the day after Donald Trump was elected president, they found much of their...

A developer's project becomes his downfall
They're not all fat cats.Complaints about "greedy developers" trace back to ancient times, but the city's real estate business is littered with...

A developer's project becomes his downfall
Skip to main content Ruddy Thompson had big plans to build housing. When they fell apart, the rest of his life did too. Thompson borrowed $95...

Left holding the bag
The past few years have been good for OMG Accessories, the teenage-girl-centered lifestyle brand that fashion industry veteran Anne Harper founded...

Tales from the trade war: Businesses caught between retailers and a hard place
The past few years have been good for OMG Accessories, the teenage-girl-centered lifestyle brand that fashion industry veteran Anne Harper founded...

Lawsuit could stymie plan for LES megatower
Skip to main content The landlords that control a small building on the Lower East Side claim they have secured a key court opinion that could...

Lawsuit could stymie plan for megatower
Skip to main content The landlords that control a small building on the Lower East Side claim they have secured a key court opinion that could...

Circle to buy SeedInvest to help startups raise cash with crypto
Circle Internet Financial Ltd., one of the most valuable U.S. cryptocurrency marketplaces, agreed to acquire crowdfunding firm SeedInvest as it...

Goodbye ‘Tronc,’ Welcome Back Tribune Publishing Co.
Tronc—the owner of the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and New York Daily News—is changing its name back to Tribune Publishing Co., just over two...

Parking fines rising for businesses in controversial incentive program
It's going to cost more to break the parking rules on city streets—but not so much more that large fleets from Fedex and UPS will go to court over...

State's Medicaid inspectors tout $2.6B in savings and recoveries
The state Office of the Medicaid Inspector General said its investigations resulted in more than $2.6 billion in Medicaid cost savings and...

Small business begs state to speed up subways, roads with congestion pricing
When I started One Girl Cookies out of my apartment, I knew that challenges would come along with sharing my love of baked goods with the world....

City has struggled to deliver on pledge to house artists
Working as an artist in the city has big advantages, but affording to live here remains a big challenge. To help combat that, in 2015 Mayor Bill de...

Barnes & Noble reviewing offers to buy company
Barnes and Noble is weighing its options after several parties expressed interest in buying the struggling bookseller. The company said Wednesday...